You love fruit. All kinds of fruit at any time of day or night. Blueberries, strawberries, rasberries, apples, lychee's (grouchies), mango's, banana's, grapes, plums, apricots, nectarines, peaches and delicious fresh figs! The only fruit you don't really like is oranges but you love orange juice.
We went to visit Debra and you were beside yourself with excitement. When it came time for bed you whispered "Mum I want someone else to read me a story tonight". It is so moving for me to see you falling in love with someone who is so important in my life.
You spend most of your life naked. You rarely get dresed when you get up in the morning, resist putting on clothes to go and out and often want to take them off at the park or friends houses. When I go to tie up your hair you say "Mum please don't, I love my hair completely wild".
Inside your little palace you made an installation of berries, petals, fronds and mint leaves. For a while uncle Nate joined you and you whispered secrets while I, having been once again banished so as not to interrupt your precious private time with another, passed you surprises of little treasures found in the garden. I made the mistake of passing you a twig. "Sorry mum, I only want beautiful things."
I found you a bike on the side of the road and had it fixed up at the bike shop. You rode it in your most worn outfit like a pro. "Mum this is my first ever time doing this and I am really great at it!"
Yesterday you put on bubble and water wings for the first time. Today you are leaping into open water and heading into the deep alone. Jumping from the edge with a flying fox rope in hand squealing "I can do it, I can really do it!"