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A month in the life of Jasmine Maya

A recent development has seen Jasmine naming colours spontaneously. She clearly knows pink, purple, blue (boo) and orange (noringe). Sometimes she identifies green (geen) too. She likes to build towers from bricks that are the same colour and selects them carefully from her brick trolley or box of megablocks. She also points to empty shapes on her puzzle board and can name what goes in them - apple, ball, cat and so on. She can now open all the doors around the house and locks and catches have been added to protect both Jasmine and the house!

She can now open all the doors around the house and locks and catches have been added to protect both Jasmine and the house!

When shopping in the supermarket this month, Jasmine showed concern as to why her 'dawdy colours' (crayons) were in a fridge. She had recognised a margarine tub that was the same as her crayon container.

Verbally, some significant changes have occured in how Jasmine puts words together. For example, at the start of this month she would say 'bicbic a drop' if she had dropped a biscuit. She now says 'bicbic, dropped it'.

Visiting the midwife with mummy, Jasmine also lay on the couch and lifted up her T-shirt to have her tummy examined.

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