I had my first shopping success a few days ago. I was sitting in the trolley at the supermarket with Mum and Dad and I managed to grab a packet of English muffins and stick them in the trolley. They didn't notice them until we got home when they were unpacking the bags. I got to watch as they asked each other why they'd bought muffins and they both said that neither had bought them. Then they looked at me! I was pretty proud of my efforts!

Yesterday we had a Kookaburra sitting in the tree outside our house for the whole afternoon. I hear them laughing every day, but this was the first time I got to have a good look at one. I pointed and said, 'bir-bir', then Daddy taught me how to say kookaburra. I pointed again and said, 'kookabah'. I was rather pleased with that and wandered off mumbling to myself, 'kookabah, buckabah, bookabah...'

I've learnt some more words from Oskar: 'mine' is pretty useful and is guaranteed to upset Oskar. Yesterday I stood looking at the fruit bowl and asked Daddy, 'nana?' He said no and I replied, 'why?' He answered that I'd already had one that morning, so I asked, 'upple?' He said no, and I asked, 'why?' again. I think he just couldn't be bothered cutting it up for me because he gave me half a croissant instead. Thought I came out of that one pretty well!