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So I just got one kid. She’s called Laurie I, she's two and four months. Okay, which is a fun she can talk. She’s really good at talking. And I would probably cliche I think she's pretty small. But she is athletic . She still runs like a chubby baby with her legs almost straight, which is quite sad. But yeah, otherwise, I'm pretty happy with how she's doing that. She’s very tall. The last toy I bought for her was a Lightning McQueen. A tiny little diecast. Like, the technique of sort of making sure they're at the same scale so they can be used together? Oh, my husband's really mad because it’s so small, I should really have checked that time you like it because there are bigger ones available. And also, one of the things that I know Laurie is going to get for Christmas from my sister is, and I keep seeing them advertised on kind of Facebook adverts and stuff. They've started selling these kinds of things that connect the Duplo bricks to the Brio train set. And that's kind of like a crossover product, I'd say cuz I'm looking forward to what she does with that, because she doesn't usually play with the Duplo right now. Not that I would stop her if she did it, but she kind of gravitates to, she's got one box or 

Actually my nursery, I think that I sympathise, there's a labour shortage, they're struggling with a turnover of staff, the stuff that they really care, but I don't think they have time. So I have been in and seeing the nursery stuff, they have, they go in for quite a lot more messy play. I would like to be confident with that in my house.  I'm not going to do that in my house. And the nursery does a lot of painting, or they'll get leaves in and play with it in a big tray and stuff like that. So I feel like they are filling up that I don't, I'm not going to fill in my living room with wet leaves. 

I would be concerned if my nursery school told me that Valarie wasn’t learning something. But I would, I would listen, yeah, I would listen to what they said. I think, if it was something that I felt like they it was their resources, because I do think they're on under resourced in terms of toys and stuff in their rooms, although they've got lots of domestically stuff. I think if I felt like it was, if it was toy related, I would really raise that with them. But I also think that it's, it's three days a week, and she's getting a lot of social stuff there. That and perhaps, actually, she's got lots of toys at home, probably balanced. Okay, that'd be quite in the end, I think I would be relaxed. 

I think gross motor skills is probably something we just need to keep a tiny eye on. Because she's, she's younger than a lot of his friends. So I'm trying not to kind of compare because obviously, they develop different rates. We do tend to do classes and parks and things. And that's what I think of when it was gross motor, she goes to Soccer Tots, which is really good for running and jumping and stuff. But the thing I would like her to be, I would like her to do crafts and things that's so I did try, I try and offer painting and glueing on days when I've got the bundles to clean it up. But she doesn't she doesn't tend to ask me for those, she always asks the girls. 

I think parents will know bandwidth is how much juice you have to deal with anything that's bad. So I tend to do messy stuff in the morning if we're free. Or if I think actually, no, I'm not too tired. If this goes everywhere, I'll just be fine to clean it off. It's not going to make me like feel like I'm at the end of my rope. And I'm not ashamed to employ a bit of television to get sort of done. So that's yeah, that's gonna be like my backup plan. But yeah, I don't I haven't mentioned the kind of sensory bin and things. I do have a rice tray in my living room, but it's covered up, it's inside a table. And she asks for that quite often. And I do not always, at some point, when I've got the time I'm going to fill the bin with pasta. I'm going to take the rice out of it because that is going to have any room for rice or for my carpet. I can deal with it but not right now. 

Those ideas have been coming from Instagram. Yeah, there's lots and lots I feel like it's quite trendy. It might be my own algorithms that are making it seem trendy, but definitely lots of follow thing. People that make custom crayons, they paint wooden figures and they do they're beautiful. They these people, artists, like the stuff they make is amazing. And I think as a kid, I would have liked it. I would have loved it. Try it with figures and paint and pick characters from my favourite books and stuff. But I actually just think the truth of it is it's not my son's interests and she wants cars and she will do art and stuff but she does what she wants. And then sort of in pursuit of cars, you're already sort of giving them anything besides your the Lightning McQueen toys or is this something you're sort of pushing you're pushing down? I like to try not to have too many things the same so if I spy something that is different to what we already have, like trying something just when we're trying to discourage kind of family members from buying dog another tractor, three tractors. Yeah, so I'm looking for variety, I guess. It is nice when you get sets like construction vehicles that have that they're not just diggers."