A year in review!

If you click on the month titles, you can view the blog from that month. Here are some of the highlights of my year.

January
I started the year weighing 26lbs.
I had just returned from Egypt in a 'marine biology' stage. Fish were the focus of drawings and readings.
I started in the Nursery class of a Girls' School.
Marmalade came to live with us.
We had a big family reunion with Äiti's side of the family.
I hand wrote my first book.

February
I went to Scotland.
I drew my first labelled diagram.
I went to the Rainforest and to a local farm.
My favourite toy was a lemon called Lemony.

March
I turned 3!
I went to Seattle for my birthday and had the best party ever. I made lots of friends there and did loads of new things. I added America and Canada to my list of countries.
I wrote lots of stories mainly about Catswell, my imaginary world.

April
I discovered the Rainbow Fairy books.
I went camping and woke up in the snow!
I went to LegoLand and discovered a love of roller coasters.

May
I went to Scotland and helped out on the farm.
I wrote a book about Catswell.
I started swimming lessons.
We got a new tent and I got a new bike. We went camping and cycling!
I watched Daddy do a triathlon.
I discovered Maths!

June
I did a 3km running race with Val and Äiti.
I took part in a school music concert.
I went to LegoLand again!
Auntie Cat came to stay whilst Daddy went to a music festival.
I had Sports Day at school.
I ran discovered French and wrote my first story in French!

July
I did another running race.
I discovered Butterfly World.
I went to France for 2 weeks with Äiti.
I started swimming unaided.
I went into a Caterpillar and Butterfly phase.

August
Lots of maths!
I loved the Olympics.
Tyan came to stay and we had so much fun together.
I discovered maps and map jigsaws.
I went to Scotland and stayed with Granny and Papa, my cousins Gregor and Siena were there as well as Aunty Cat and Uncle Panda.
I went camping again and went to an Otter park.

September
I started Gymnastics.
I went back to school.
I went camping several times.
Harri and Kata came to stay.
I marked 2 years of reading by reading 'War and Peace'.
I was pulled out of school by Äiti and Daddy.

October
I wrote a book about Moose's Day.
I went to a family weekend run by the NAGC and made a felt picture and had fun.
I discovered 'Paint' on the computer and drew lots of colourful pictures.
I went to France again.
I did a 300pc jigsaw!
I had a great day with Iris, my Great Granny.

November
I started at my new school.
I went to the Natural History Museum and loved it.
I went to a fireworks display and hated it.
Lorraine came to stay, we did fun maths together.
I went through a 'reproduction' stage.
I got a new bedroom.
I went to the National Cat Show.
I went into a Multiplication phase.

December
I got lots of new swimming badges.
I started Ballet at school.
I was an Angel in my Christmas play.
I wrote to Father Christmas asking for a baby sister.
I designed my new leotard and then wore it in my Gymnastics display!
I discovered I loved dancing.
Christmas was a lot of fun!

Over the year...
I ended the year weighing 28lbs. I grew out of my 18-24month clothes and went into age 2-3yrs. My feet grew, my hair grew and then I had my first hair cut. My reading age went up by 2.5yrs, my list of countries visited went up to 19, I had one set of antibiotics, I changed schools, I made new friends, I visited new places, I had lots of new experiences and I had lots of fun!

Bits and pieces

The hardest jigsaw ever...according to Äiti!

My Christmas present from Amelia arrived today. It was a 3D jigsaw with 100 pieces. Äiti said it was really hard as the pictures on each piece kept moving about for her, I found it quite easy but a lot of fun. I love how all the fish look like they are jumping out the picture and moving about. Thank you Amelia and Oliver! Äiti and Daddy got a funny Finnish book, the front cover looks like our family!

The other day we all went for a walk...including the cats! We walked about a mile along the river with the cats chasing us! We thought we should turn around and come home in case they got lost! We stopped at the village playground for a little play- the cats enjoyed the park too!

I went to the zoo yesterday. We took Granny Val and Michael with us. It was a freezing day but we saw lots of animals. The Ocelots, Meerkats and Lemurs were our favourites. I've had a reward chart for a while and I finally finished it the other day, my reward was a little toy; I chose a baby tiger cub.

Here I am in my bedroom reading! I have been able to read in my head for years but not really realised it... over the last few days I have been reading lots of books in my head and even read 57 pages of one book on the way to the zoo!

Sylvie and baby Davy came to visit at the weekend. I had a hunger meltdown just as we were about to eat. After a good scream I cheered up a lot and had fun. Sylvie and I were dancing and doing gymnastics in my bedroom! I got a brilliant microscope from her that makes everything look much BIGGER!

I am seeing my friend Tyan soon. I wrote her a little letter today without any help. I think my writing and punctuation is very good! It says "To Tyan. Do you want to go for a swim with me? Love Sophie"

Christmas!

Before going to sleep on Christmas Eve, I left some milk for Father Christmas and a carrot for his reindeer. I went to sleep quite early and didn't wake up until 7.30am on Christmas Day. At the end of the bed was a stocking filled with presents, a little bit of present was sticking out the top. I opened then and found that I had some new Schleich animals, some chocolate money and a game of Snap.

I then went down stairs and saw lots more presents. I was allowed to open the ones from Father Christmas. I opened up 2 sticker maths books and the best present of all- a farm!

I then ate more chocolate money and a bit of toast and played with my farm whilst I waited for Val and Michael to turn up. Once they'd turned up I was allowed to open my other presents from my friends and relatives. I got some more Schleich, games, a baby doll with multiple accessories, a Leapster, a CD player, some playdoh, an ant farm, some books and some new pyjamas!

We then all ate a very big lunch and then we went for a walk with Ben the dog. After the walk we ate some chocolate cake and played some games and ate some more! I then got to watch Wallace and Gromit before going to bed.

Thank you for all my lovely presents!

Happy Christmas!

Happy Christmas to all those who read this blog!

Tonight I spent a long time tracking Father Christmas on the Norad website. I have left out some milk for FC and a carrot for his reindeer, I am quite excited!

Another Story

Here is another story that I told today, again whilst in the bath! I gave it a title and told 2 chapters!

Little Orca
Chapter 1
Little Orca was out on the cold ice, he was cold and hungry and all alone. Just then he heard a bumpy noise. “I’m not alone after all” he said.

He looked but he couldn’t find anyone. He floated off and didn’t hear the terrible noise.
He met Ray, they wanted to get out of the icy water. Poor Little Orca, he was scared. “Can you not hear our Mummys and Daddys?” said Ray, “Oh yes we can, but Little Orca doesn’t know where they are, we have to help him”. The whole sea was filled with noise.

“Mother” he called, “oh, now he knows their call”. They went and looked for her, “but you are still alone Little Orca”. So he came back and had to sort everything out. Then they heard the terrible dreadful noise again, “yay, I’m out” Little Orca’s mother cried. “We love you Little Orca.” Just as that happened, Tiger Shark swam down making that terrible noise and tried to eat Little Orca. Then Tiger Shark ate Salmon again, he is a naughty Tiger Shark you know.

Chapter 2
The next day they all had school and had to learn seagull language, they went swimming after that. Little Orca practised his whale swimming. “You have stand like a person and then go onto your back and start paddling using your arms and kicking. Move your legs up and down” said her Daddy, “I don’t have legs or arms” said Orca. “Ok, just use your fins and tail” said her Daddy gently in a nice voice. “It is going to be ok” said her daddy in a daddy voice. Little Orca was having so much fun jumping out the water and pretending to be a dolphin.

“We’re coming” he shouted to his friends, “what, what, what?” said Cardinal as he blew his water out, “we’re going to a party, get out the pool, we need to go” replied Little Orca.

Gymnastics Display and some funnies!

At the weekend my Gymnastics Club had their Christmas Display. I am in the 'Pre-School Squad' so was asked if I wanted to take part. We were the first to do our performance. We did a little warm up and then we went on about 6 different activity stations. I had to do a forward roll, a backward roll, a sideways roll, walk on the beam, bounce a ball and jump through some hoops. I bounced between activities and thoroughly enjoyed myself. I wore my lovely cat leotard too which looked great. After our display I stayed and watched the older girls doing their routines. There are a few British Champions at my gym so we got to see them perform, they were so bendy! They were amazing to watch.

Last week I went to see Madagascar 2 at the cinema. It was a really good film though I got a bit scared in one part. We then went for a very nice Chinese meal afterwards.

Here are a few of my recent 'funnies'...

Aiti- we can't go to Homebase today as you spent too long eating your lunch, we'll go to tomorrow instead
Sophie- that was going to be my suggestion

Sophie- Are there any breadsticks at home?
Aiti- No, you ate them all
Sophie- well, that is going to be unsatisfying then

Sophie- 5.....7....6......5......7.....6......5 7 6 5 7 6
Aiti- huh?
Sophie- there is pattern on the cheese grater... 5 holes, 7 hole, 6 holes, 5 holes, 7 holes, 6 holes

Sophie "daddy, the speed limit is 30 here. You concentrate on driving and I'll concentrate on telling you the speed limits"

"I need a poo but I don't want to do my poo in Tescos...I want to go to Cannons (swimming pool) and weigh myself, then have a poo and then weigh myself again. How much will my poo weigh?"

In the supermarket "Yummy, 2 bags of 8 croissants, that makes 16, if I had 8 bags of 8 then that would be 64 croissants, imagine 64 croissants"

Aiti- Are you listening to me?
Sophie- Yes, I'm just not taking any notice

A story!

Whenever I play in the bath, I always tell lots of stories with my animals. Today Äiti finally managed to transcribe one of my stories. She couldn't type fast enough so missed a few bits out. Here it is...

“We can nearly swim in this pond” salmon said, “we absolutely can”
“I can swim here” said wobbegong, “oh dear”
“Help” yelled salmon and then he was caught “Help me” he called
“We’re coming” replied his friends “oh thanks” said salmon
He was paddling there in the pond and he was the only one in there
“Hellooooooo” called something, “helloooooo”
Seal was up above the water, “what is the matter” he called
Seal swam deeper and deeper, the water was getting colder. He swam into otter, “oh sorry” said seal, “I’m looking for the hellooooo voice”
The hellooooo voice was salmon who needed help.
“Yes, right then” otters mum said “let’s have a race to save salmon”
They swam and swam until they came to the calling “help help help help help” was calling.
“Help help help”
Otter fluttered down to look “help” it kept calling. He was swimming towards a funny dark shape in the water.
“We’ll rescue you”
“Wait a minute they are putting more water in, we can now save salmon”
“Wait” yelled salmon, “where am I? I need to be back in the ocean”
“You’ll never get back there” replied otter, “you are in a pond”
“Wait for me”, salmon was very slippery and otter was trying to paddle with him, it was such a deep pond.
Just as they rescued Salmon, Tiger Shark swam up and ate him.

Dancing...of a fashion!

Here is a video of me dancing. The music is the 'demo' on my toy piano.

When Äiti was little..

...her favourite set of books were the 'Little House' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. She loved these books so much that she pretended she was really called Hannah Sarah Laura X! Seeing as I am enjoying listening to books like 'My Naughty Little Sister' and books by Dick King Smith, Äiti thought I might like 'Little House in the Big Woods'. We finally found a copy in Borders yesterday. I read the first chapter in my head in the car and then I read some of it to Äiti, she looked happy. Here I am reading the first page (translation of the page underneath). I find these books easier to read in my head than out aloud.

I wanted to do some maths yesterday so I asked Äiti to write me some sums. She couldn't keep up with me working out the answers so quickly so gave me some hard sums like- 3+3= x+y and 2x2+X=5 and xy=21. As I was racing through the answers I decided to say the numbers and the colours of the magnets in French e.g Numero cinq in rouge!

We went for a nice walk yesterday in the cold, I collected lots of leaves, berries, twigs and stones. I came home and made a 'Christmas Bush'!

My New Leotard!

Do you like it? I love it! I wore it all round Borders and all the way home and I'm still wearing it! Last week, after gymnastics I went to see the lady who makes the leotards for the gymnasts. I wanted a purple leotard with a cat on it. This week I picked up my leotard, I am so pleased with it. The lady who makes them has a website (click here) if you want one like mine...though mine is unique and the only one in the whole wide world!

Thoughts on Father Christmas

This year, I have been told about Father Christmas. I wrote him a letter about the things I'd like for Christmas. I decorated the tree with lots of silver tinsel and I put all my small cats in the tree! Daddy bought me a small tree for my bedroom- I covered it in lights and baubles and then the real cats knocked everything off! I have an advent calendar which I can open once I've eaten my breakfast- I normally have to wait until after dinner! I went to Emily's Christmas party at the weekend, it was fun!

Father Christmas came to our village a few nights ago. He handed out some presents. I got a box from him. I said "why has Father Christmas used the same wrapping paper that I chose in Tescos the other day?". Äiti muttered something about being an observant little madam!

I have had a few questions about Father Christmas like... Why isn't he black from all the dirt in the chimney? How is he going to get the new TV down the chimney? How do his reindeer run in the air? How will he get into the houses that don't have chimneys?

Äiti has answered 'MAGIC' to all my questions! I have been Christmas shopping and I am quite excited about giving presents to everyone.

It's the holidays!

Today was the last day of the school term. I now have just over 3 weeks off. I have been doing 3 mornings a week, after the holidays I want to go 5 mornings a week as I love it there so much. I will still spend most of the morning in Nursery, but I will get my hour in Year 1. Äiti and Daddy had parents evening earlier this week, they spoke with my Nursery teacher and my Year 1 teacher. I am well liked and am doing really well. I need a bit more confidence but that is coming slowly.

Yesterday I had a swimming lesson with Mrs Hippicampi, I swam a whole length on my back doing near proper back stroke. I just need to get my arms a bit straighter! I had a great lesson and then afterwards I had a play with my swimming friend, Jessica. We then had tea together after swimming. We both had pasta without any sauce or vegetables! Yummy!

I've been getting back into jigsaws this week. I've done 2 easy 100pc jigsaws and several smaller ones. Daddy finished off reading me 'Martin's Mice' tonight, I am really enjoying books by Dick King Smith...as is Daddy!

Tomorrow we are going to start making our house look a bit more Christmassy- I'd like a luminous reindeer with bright lights on it to sit in our front garden. I'd also like some sparkly lights to go on our house, Äiti said "we'll see".

Here is a funny picture of me. I am wearing my sun hat even though it is winter. I wanted to wear it to school but I had to wear my school hat instead! I love eating chocolate croissants whilst checking my blog!

My new scooter and a letter to FC!

Actually it isn't new, I am using Äiti's old scooter. I am getting faster and more confident. Here is a short video of me on my scooter.

I am very tired right now, Äiti says I am suffering from 'End-of-term-itis'. I am sleeping quite well at night times and for the past two nights I haven't woken once, this is unheard of! I went to my school Christmas Fair on Friday night, I guessed the name of the shark and picked a few tickets in the tombola. I was too tired to do anything else.

Next week is my last week of school until the new term in January. Father Christmas is coming to school, I wrote him a letter. It says "To FC, Please can I have Tabby, Farm, 4 real cats, 100 Schleich, Maths Book Love Sophie". Tabby is my imaginary baby sister, 4 real cats- I'd like a Tonkinese, a Burmese, a MaineCoon and a Mog, Schleich are model animals and the maths book I want has to be a sticker book on multiplication!

An Angel!

Today it was my school's nativity play. I was an Angel. I had to do a dance on the stage with 2 other Angels. It wasn't really a dance, more a waggling of a few bits of tinsel! I quite enjoyed myself, I especially liked making faces at Daddy and Äiti who were in the audience! We had some song to sing, I knew the words but only sang the songs in my head. I had to wear an Angel outfit. Äiti spend a long time (grumbling) and sewing loads of tinsel onto my costume. It looked good though. I even had tinsel hair bobbles in.

Afterwards my whole class got some chocolate from our teachers for doing so well in our play. There was a man there recording the play...expect to see me in action fairly soon!

Swimming news

Today I had a brilliant swim lesson. My swim teacher taught me how to do proper back stroke today, I did really well. I do need to keep my arms a bit straighter apparently. I also got 2 new swim badges today because I have made such quick progression over the last few weeks. My swim teacher says I am very close to getting the next level and maybe some distance badges. Äiti isn't overly excited about the thought of sewing on lots of badges.

After swimming today, I played a bit with my new friend Jessica. She is an excellent swimmer too. I then came home and ate loads of dinner as I was so hungry. I then wrote my other blog, then daddy read me the last chapter in my Sophie book.

Philosophy

Äiti borrowed/stole this idea from my friend Amelia's blog! It was fun answering these questions.

1. If there were not clocks or watches in the world, would time still exist?
WHAT? Huh? No one would know what time it was because there would be nothing to tell them. The owls and foxes would still come out at night so we know it is night time. The sun shines in the day so it is day time.

2. If a tree fell in the forest, would it make a sound?
Yes...because it fell very loudly because it is a very big tree and went CRACK!

3. Do you think there are colors in the world that humans can't see, and that there are objects made out of those colors?
Some animals are camoflaged and cant be seen but I know they are there.

4. If you were trying to boil some water in a pot, would it take longer if you watched it?
No, just put the lid on, it is quite quick.

5. If you met a kid from Germany who only spoke German and you only spoke English but you both had learned how to read Japanese (but not speak it), would you be able to communicate?
No, but I could learn German.