Her chatter is constant and is now quite well formed. She emphasises the 'action' word in what she says, for example, 'sound of an airplane - listen', and, 'there's a spider - look'. She tries hard to sing snippets of songs she has heard at toddler group or on television.
Jasmine is currently very polite, saying 'please', 'fanks' and 'pardon me'
when appropriate. She occasionally blames things on her baby brother, saying, 'Harry did it'.
Sometimes Jasmine overextends the use of plurals, for example saying 'I'm making cups of teas'.
Jasmine is fascinated by shapes, and loves to have help making circles, squares and 'tangles'. She is showing a clear enclosure schema - wrapping up herself, her dolls and other items such as crayons, bricks and empty cups. She also likes to surround items with her bricks. Once she spread a blanket on the floor for Harry, and Mummy carefully laid him down, praising Jasmine for caring for him nicely - but she had to explain that Jasmine couldn't roll him up in it!
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