A whole world to discover

Now that HG so rarely tears books (only be accident) she has been allowed to flip through more of Abba and Ima's books, here are some of her favourites and current HG interests in general.

Deer - Ever since Ima spent an afternoon photographing deer for a work project on the animals, HG has been fascinated, demanding to see at least a daily slideshow of Ima's photos. She loves grabbing Ima's mammal books and hearing about the different kinds of deer, eagerly looking forward to any pictures that show mother deer and baby deer...

Ima and baby animals - identifying "ima" and "abba" animals is big with HG right now. She loves pictures of baby animals, and is especially thrilled to see pictures of nursing animals, exciteldy shouting out "ima, baby, nurse!" whenever she sees one.

Horses - HG spends ages flicking through Ima's horse encyclopedia which is full of photos of every different breed of horse imaginable. She says "ride" every time she sees a person mounted on a horse and likes "making nice" to close up pictures of horses faces, gently stroking their noses while grinning ear to ear.

Stamps - checking the mail box is one of HG's daily highlights. She likes looking through the envelopes and pointing out the stamps.

Maps - HG knows that she has an uncle in England and sometimes it seems as though she thinks all maps are England. Every so often she barges into Ima's study and grabs an atlas off the shelf proclaiming "mappp, read!!" and shoving it into the hands of her parents for them to "read" to her, pouring over the map intently as Ima or Abba point out any places they know about...

She seems to be getting the point that not all maps are England, because lately she grabs an atlas and says "mappp, read, Inland!!" Today she brought Ima a Hebrew highschool atlas and when Ima asked if she wanted to see a map of Israel HG nodded her head and answered "home".

Space - especially models of the solar system and pictures of nebulas and galaxies. Ima and Abba have no idea whether HG understand what she is seeing, but she loves flipping through the pictures! She has been interested in the moon in all its forms for a while now and her current interest are her favourite planets - Earth and Jupiter, presumably because they are the prettiest?! Ask her what the planets do to the sun and she will answer "ra ra" or more recently, more clearly "round and round".