Until now, she has been taking any toys given to her during dinner (it's frequently only by distraction that she'll open her mouth for food!) and thrown them on the floor - and then wondered what's happened to them. Thomas and I aren't in the habit of picking up things she's dropped, so we go through quite a few toys each meal! By 'toys' here, I'm meaning anything I don't mind going in her mouth, like clothes pegs, jar lids, and foam dice. And they keep her just as entertained as anything else!
Recently, however, she's grasped the concept of give and take... once she has a toy that I've given her, I'll put out my hand and say, 'for me, please' and she'll put it on my palm. Then I shower her with thankyous and smiles, which seem to make it all worthwhile for her.
Eventually she'll get bored with that toy and throw it on the ground, ready for her next piece of entertainment.
Give and take has also led to putting things in and taking them out... like in the washing machine or dryer. I thought I had been pretty thorough, but yesterday I found a jar lid that had been rolling around in the dryer for the previous couple of hours...
The other photos below show Margaux with some of her friends at Mums and Tots, and her looking at me through the mirror in a new pyjama outfit I bought for her in Belfast. Sooo cute!
Maybe it's stupid, but I really get upset when people assume or ask me if Margaux is a boy. I know I shouldn't but really, I dress her in a pink dress and still get asked. Seriously, do people think I'm conducting a social experiment???
The big photo in the collage below is just one demonstration of what she wears when people compliment Margaux on being beautiful/ cute, or congratulate me on having a beautiful son.
To remedy this, while we were shopping yesterday I beelined for the headwear section and bought Margaux some very girly hair clips... hopefully this will deter the commenters!
In Portuguese, beautiful and cute are gender specific: i.e. a beautiful boy is 'lindo', while a girl is 'linda'. Same goes for cute: giro/ gira, which makes it very clear whether the person saying it is referring to my son (menino) or daughter (menina).
And here we have a mix of photos or Margaux as she gets bigger by the day! In the first photo, we were out for a coffee. Then we see what happens when Thomas comes home from work and has a nap for 20 minutes. I usually leave him alone, but sometimes Margaux can't get enough of him! The following is a photo from when Margaux and I were out and about shopping; and finally we have a selfie. Just because we can.
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