Hannah and Erin, gotta teaching question for you both (and any other teachers) with reading. Do you favour phonics or sight reading? I've heard the merits of both. I'm not that clued up on how ours schools here go, but gather it might be more sight reading but have heard that can put kids at a disadvantage for actually learning to read unusual words - thoughts? Hannah you mention high-frequency words, so I take it those are sight words?
Bec, have a great holiday!
Judy, that is so funny with the dirty gina. :lol: Weightwise, Danielle's only just hitting 8kg (16lbs??), she's normal length and is just into 9-12mth clothes with baggy waists.
Michelle, go for it with finger food, I'm sure Holly will do fine. Danielle even ate roasted carrot sticks last night which surprised me. Actually her first finger food which I feel totally comfortable with were brocolli florets - and quite large and she'd just munch off a bite - I did tend to overcook them a bit though. Yay, for Molly doing well at daycare.
Ankie, love the pics.
Hannah, re milk after weaning, I have different ideas on that, so not sure if you really want to know? Anyway, I didn't offer milk to Nathan to drink, I just add it on cereal, lots of yoghurt, cottage cheese, cheese etc - give it as a replacement serving rather than in milk form (and this was actually ok'd by our well-child nurses but not many people feel comfortable doing this since it's breaking away from the norm :wink: ).
Looks like there were a few good night sleepes out there! We also had a good one from Danielle. I heard her wake around 3.30am and chatted to herself for about 10mins and then before I know it I woke at 5am with an earthquake which fortunately didn't wake either of them (although Nathan had been up screaming about 3 times during the night still :roll: ).
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