Each weekday when we pick up William from nursery, the ladies there tell us how his day has been - how long he slept, whether he ate well and what he played with. Last week when Andrew collected William, they told him that one of his favourite things to do is to pick up dummies that other children have dropped and give them back, to the right child! I am impressed. I almost don't believe that he knows which dummy goes with which child, but that is what they said. One day, apparently, he saw the father of a child, who was there to pick up his daughter, and William strongly insisted on giving him his daughter's dummy, which was on the floor.
Amazing.
A couple of weeks ago, on a trip to Wales, William met his first sheep. She (the sheep) is a Herdwick. Herdwick sheep are the most hardy of all Britain’s breeds of hill sheep and live on the highest of The UK's mountains. Their wool is very thick and hard wearing, so is often made into carpet, but William was given an organically tanned Herdwick sheepskin when he was born and it is as soft as anything. He used to lie on it when he was very little, then sit on it and now he still often goes and sits down on it to play with something. So, we went and visited Maggie and Jamie Battson, who have a herd of Herdwicks and gave William his lovely sheepskin. He was a little unsure of the sheep at first, but then had a go at patting her and watching her eat. It probabaly says something about us being very city-fied, that William met his first live sheep (and chickens and ducks) at the age of 13 months.
Each morning William likes to taste our breakfast cereal.....little monkey. Here he is checking that daddy's shreddies are ok.
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