If you could hold on to a kite you could go high up in the sky, very very high, and then pick up the moon and put it into a bag. Then a bird could go fly, fly, fly up high and if it had hands it could take the moon or if it couldn’t reach the moon it could go to a moon shop where there would be lots of cheaper moons.

Mum and Dad listened very carefully to my story. I think they liked it. Felix didn’t listen though, he just pointed at the moon and said “moon! moon!” But that’s OK because he’s only little.

When I want to ride the tram I go and get Mum or Felix, or Dad if he is home, or our friends Janet and Justin who are staying with us on holiday now. I tell them “There is plenty of room!” and show them where to sit on the sofa. Then I sit up high on the back of the sofa and off we go. Sometimes I bring some food and drinks on the tram so we don’t get hungry.

My cousin Chloe lives in Melbourne in Australia. Mum told me that Melbourne has lots and lots of trams and you can go anywhere on a tram in Melbourne. So the other day I took Mum to Melbourne on the sofa tram. It takes a long time to get to Melbourne but we had snacks with us. And then we came back home and got back in time for afternoon tea!

Mum and Dad asked me a few times last week if I wanted to go to see the movie. I wasn’t sure. A few times I told them that I didn’t want to see it yet and that I would go when I was a bit bigger. But they said they would take me and if I didn’t like it then we could go home. So we went off to the cinema, which was big and dark and full of nice comfy seats. I sat between Mum and Dad and we waited.

The film was really loud when it started and I had to put my hands over my ears. But then Horton came on and I watched the film. It lasted a long long time but I thought it was really fun and interesting all the way until the end. So did Mum and Dad because they were laughing a lot too. There was a bunny rabbit with cookies at the end and it made me hungry. When the film was over we went outside and I said “Daddy let’s go for ice cream!”

So films are just like haircuts because you get ice cream afterwards. But I think I would rather go to a film.

The other day dad tried to talk to me about ice hockey. But I didn’t know what he was talking about. That happens a lot. Maybe it’s just puk.

Dad looked surprised that I understood what he said. He gave me a hug and said that I was clever as he helped me get undressed for the bath. As he was talking I pointed and said “Ba! Ba!” so he picked me up and put me in the bath with Jay. I’m glad that Dad understands the things I say too.

Milk. Dad. Mum. Jay. Door. Toast. Book. Bubble. Shoe. No. Hot. Bye bye.

I know these words and can mostly say them properly and I like to point to the thing when I say the word. Especially Mum and Dad because they point back at me. When Mum is cooking at the stove I know that it is hot. I say “hot” and move my hand in front of my mouth because that is sign language for “hot”. And in the morning when Dad goes to the front door I wave my hand and say “bye bye” because he is going to work. Then everybody else waves and says bye bye too because they like to copy me.

There are some other words that I sort of know but I can’t always remember them and can’t say them properly:

Flower. Hand. Nose. Bird.

And there are also some other words that I don’t know yet. But I will learn them all soon.

Then today in the morning I was playing in the kitchen after breakfast and I walked a few steps around the kitchen island. Mum and Dad both saw me and they both smiled at me and said nice things. I don’t think Jay saw me which is a shame because the reason I am learning to walk is that I want to be more like him.