Nice weather for ducks

As birds are the new black in Alice's little world, we recently went to feed the ducks, swans and pelicans at Centennial Park. Alice rode her bike.

The ducks and Alice very much enjoyed the bread that we took with us. Happily, it wasn't old and stale, as not a single crumb made it out of Alice's sticky paw for the birds.

Despite her carbo-load, Alice maintained high excitement levels and repeated her new favourite word "Bir" at will. We are learning new words by the day at the moment - aside from animals, they are all words that will ensure Alice's demands are met with minimum margin for error: "Rusk", "Tuddle" [cuddle], "Mil" [milk], "More" [any food substance], "Shoe" [Take off my sock/ I am about to pull all of your shoes out onto the floor and there is nothing you can do about it], "Bebeeee" [A child under 10 is approaching and I would like them to smile at me].

We took her again later in the week, and she can now manage "Duck". Sounds a bit like "Dog", but I know what she means.