{"id":9787,"date":"2012-10-26T13:27:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T12:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9787"},"modified":"2012-10-27T11:55:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T10:55:47","slug":"the-life-and-language-of-baby-catrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9787","title":{"rendered":"The life and language of baby Catrin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wonderful granddaughter Catrin is now 21 months. As regular readers will know, I try to see her each week and this week I babysat one evening. She went from a morning at nursery to an afternoon with her Canadian grandpa visiting from Montreal to an evening with me without any problem at all. She is such a good girl.<\/p>\n<p>Now that it&#8217;s Autumn, the leaves are falling and she loved kicking her way through the brown leaves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 3px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/leaf.jpg\" border=\"3\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"336\" \/><br \/>\n<span>&#8220;Are all these leaves for me?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As well as getting taller and more assertive, her language is developing by leaps and bounds. She can repeat almost any word put to her. I dont hear all her language but the words I have caught include: &#8220;Mummy. Daddy. Granddad. Me. Eat. More. Noodles. Apple. &#8216;nana. Yes. No. Up. Down. Nursery. Buggy. Walk. Key. Bubbles. &#8216;paste. Elmo. Bye. Night &#8211; night&#8221; plus animal and colour names and the low numbers. And she understands everything.<\/p>\n<p>Footnote: her Canadian grandpa is very proud of all the great things that have come out of Canada &#8211; including my daughter-in-law &#8211; and insisted that I should mention on my blog that one Canadian invention is the IMAX film format [more information <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IMAX\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wonderful granddaughter Catrin is now 21 months. As regular readers will know, I try to see her each week and this week I babysat one evening. She went from a morning at nursery to an afternoon with her Canadian grandpa visiting from Montreal to an evening with me without any problem at all. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9787"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9807,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787\/revisions\/9807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}