Adeline my psychomotricienne (What IS the word in English?????)

Bonjour tout le monde!!

C'est moi et Adeline ma psychomotricienne!

Je l'adore - elle est TELLEMENT douce et gentille!

ouaih - douce, mais alors, elle me fait bosser quand meme! Regardez moi ce boulot!!!

Here I am with Adeline ... we meet every Friday morning... and we play loads of really exciting games!!!

Just look at some of the things we get up to!!

J'apprends la confiance en moi!

Gaining confidence in my own abilities

At apres j'ai envie de tout recommencer, toute seule!

C'est un vrai plaisir pour moi de faire tout ca! Yoopeeee!!!

Gotta do it again - I love all this stuff!!

ok, so I don't look impressed - vous trouvez que je fais la gueule???

Et bien ca n'a pas dure longtemps - j'ADORE de truc skateboard!!

Not for long - I LOVE this skateboardie thing!!!!

I can even do it all by myself!

Mama and Adeline are gobsmacked!!!

J'y arrive toute seule maintenant!

Mama et Adeline sont epatees!!!!

Hey Adeline! Mama told me I had to learn to eat all by myself!!

Could you help me please????

Hey, Adeline! Mama m'a dit qu'il fallait que mange toute seule desormais ...

...tu m'aides un peu???

Et oui ... c'est bon les bisous ...

moi aussi je t'aime Adeline!!! T'es TROP sympa!!!!

Look where Mama found me this lunchtime!!!

Can anyone explain why Mama screamed so loudly when she discovered me here? Wasn't she the one who told me to go do things for myself? DISCOVERY here I come, man!!!

Autonomously working on the autonomy

Mama is starting to wean herself off the 'feeding me a bottle of milk syndrome'.

To her amazement (um, excuuuu-uuu-se me - WHY the amazement? I'm a perfectly capable person mama!) I can drink out of a cup like 'ain't no thiiiing' ...

Get a load of that!

No practice required - I did it straight away!

Am I amazing, or am I amazing???

And - now get a load of this folks - I fed myself! I picked up a bit of tender red meat Mama had cut into small tiny pieces, and I put it in my mouth ...

... and chewed... !!!

Why does Mama keep shouting (very loudly) : EUREKA?????

I can even eat the cup if you're all THAT impressed!!

Mama has taken the 'leaving me to get on with stuff by myself' advice very seriously

She let me wander around the garden to my hearts content - I would have thought she would have kept her eagle-eye on me every second, but everytime I glanced her way, she was busy gardening ... so ...

I found a nice deep pool of stinking, stangnant, dirty, bacteria-infested garden water that had been left to rot inside the plastic pool cover behind the house (Mama said it was Papa's fault, but she always says that) ... boy was it fun getting myself drenched in this foul water!!! I LOVED IT !!!

Nathan the photographer was straight in there, filming and taking photos of the fun I was having (Mama still hasn't quite figured out how to post videos on blogger ... but she's getting there!!)

And eventually I wandered back into the house : A SOPPING, SOGGY, SOAKED STINKING MESS

Can't wait to start that filthy fun all over again!!

In the meantime, a further step in my newly-acquired autonomy involves slyly climbing up dangerous staircases as soon as Mama and Papa have their back turned ...

I can also now frown furiously when things aren't going my way (this is me with my Mamie - Papa's Mama, yesterday) and I wanted to make the doll do stuff all by myself, hence the frown. Mama loves this photo, cos she says its SOOO MEEE and my budding ability to curse ...

And just as a conclusion to this post about autonomy : I am now also capable of ripping my trousers all my myself too. Ain't that something ???!!!!