Bethany's learning to say several new words a day now. It's great to see her acquire the confidence to say a word that she's been understanding from us for months, but now realises how to speak herself ( Read more... )

Bethany has started asking me to tell her stories ( Read more... )

Today has been a very good day ( Read more... )

Bethany has very good English aural comprehension. She understands a very large number of words - not just words for her toys and food, but most items of furniture, places, people's names, items of clothing, an increasing number of adjectives, and so on. And she can understand really quite complex sentences, such as "Why don't you pick up the red ( Read more... )

Bethany's thirteen months old today, so I think it's time for another list of things that I find it fun or exciting that Bethany can do now.

• She can obey any of these instructions: "Clap your hands!""Press the button." "Press the button on your turtle." (when she otherwise wasn't thinking about the turtle) "Give it to Daddy." (a very useful one ( Read more... )

Bethany's continuing to be delightful. She's toddling around the house confidently now. She discovered the magnets on the freezer, and has a delightful play pattern in which she picks a magnet off the freezer, plays with iit for a few seconds, then puts it into mummy or daddy's hands. Then a couple of seconds later she'll pick it out of our hands, ( Read more... )

Here's a random assortment of what I've been up to recently:

( Less Multiverse; Mermaid Liaisons; Puzzles; Watching Bethany walking! )

Typically, I write my LJ posts over the course of a couple of weeks. I'll have an idea, let it foment at the back of my mind for a bit, a few days later I'll write a couple of paragraphs on my PDA, then a couple of days later add a bit more, and eventually post it ( Read more... )

Hmm, it's a long time since I've posted on here ( Read more... )

Rachael and Alex Churchill are delighted to announce the birth of Bethany Amy Churchill! She was born weighing 8 pounds 5 ounces, at 10:28am, 4th July 2010, after labour was induced at 5am.

Mother and baby are both fine, and being kept in hospital overnight for observation.

( Photos! )