biggera and bettera

percy just keeps getting bigger and better. despite nearly constant colds and snotty noses she is learning new things and comprehending more and more every day.
these are some of things i have observed over the past few weeks:

1. can name and point to nose, eyes, ears, head and hair; on herself and others,
2. understands "sit",
3. can choose a book from her bookshelf and bring it to us to be read, unless it's one of the really big heavy ones, then she needs some help with the transporting,
4. understands "come here", and usually ignores it!
5. can pass, roll or kick (assisted) a ball,
6. likes to feed herself with a spoon. sometimes a bit of help from mama or papa is required to load food on the spoon. at these times she happily relinquishes the spoon and then takes it back once there is food on it,
7. brushes her teeth unassisted,
8. adorably does "up bum" to help us change her nappy. we've been repeating to her since birth "up bum" so we can slide the old nappy out and the new one under her. she now either curls right up so her bum is pointing at the sky or plants her feet and lifts her bum (bridge pose yoga-style) to assist,
9. does "high fives" with us and other adults or children. she likes this particularly when she is on the swing. we'll sit on the adjacent swing, in the opposite direction and as we pass, lean out and 'high five' each other. loves it!
10. brushes her hair- well the front half anyways,
11. likes to get a "wi" (read wet-wipe) out of the box to wipe everything from her nose, to the furniture, to the walls, to us...
12. says "num-num" and pats her high chair, or other chair or stroller if we are out, to tell us when she would like to eat,
13. adores dogs and would pat every single one we ever come across and bring them all home with her,
14. occasionally will grab her nappy/groin and say "poo" when she needs changing. she hasn't got the difference between poo and pee figured yet, so half the time there is no poo but she's definately peed. to this end we've bought a potty and we sit her on it a couple of times a day, usually in the evening after dinner tho i do want to try in the mornings after breakfast too. she doesn't get what the potty is for but at least she is getting familiar with it being about and sitting on it. she also likes to think she's helping us go to the toilet too. skip this if it's getting too personal! she'll come into the bathroom with us, pull off some toilet paper (the whole roll if we don't limit her!) and try to stick it between our legs! it's very cute. she can get adamant about you being finished too- she tried to pull paul's pants up last week determined that he'd had enough time and should come out to play more now. ha ha ha...

that's most of it, i think.