Letter to son - May 2012
Hello Poppett You continue to grow and amaze me, your language skills are coming along marvellously, some might say that you never shut up (did you get that from me too?), but you speak in sentences, though they are not always 100% intelligible, and i often have to translate for others. You talk about what you have been doing, recently and sometimes quite a long time ago too, you amaze me with what you remember. Mostly though you talk about trains, oh how you love thomas! When you meet new people you tell them 'a thomas a den den aaa puff away aaa a choo-choo' which always makes me laugh and confuses them! A denn a a a are your fillers, the noises you make when you don't know the exact words, or when you are thinking of what to say next. I can watch your little toes all day, you refuse shoes and socks most of the time so I get to watch your feet from all angles - your toes seem to express everything you are feeling or doing - the tops, the bottoms, your little ro