9 March 2011

Emily is very resistant to writing letters or even drawing. I wish we knew for sure our medium term future, because if we are staying here she needs to be in a more structured pre-school environment. She's into magic heavily, perhaps influenced by our recent discovery of Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom, and the acquisition of the Princess and the Wizard, her current favourite book. She has such an odd accent at times, and some words are positively yokel in pronunciation, eg. oys (eyes) and insoide (inside). I know I grew up in Somerset but I don't think that is coming from me. In fact, to mollify Nick I often stress a slightly northern pronunciation, such as trying not to elongate the 'a' in grass, bath etc. Her teachers mainly speak in an Americanised accent so where can she be picking it up? Ballet went very well; even after so few classes she seems to be really picking the moves up.