Larg-elly

They take a register at Dolphins each day - it's to get the children altogether and settled before they get started on their activities, rather than because they are not sure if they are there or not. It's also to teach the children their surnames, give them a sense of identity and to help build attention spans, apparently.

Alice has known her full name for a while now. She can't actually say it yet, but I think it will be one of those words that we'll let her go on pronouncing in a cute manner for long after she actually needs to. Who wants to hear "Alice Yardley" when you can snigger at "Alice Largelly"?! (That's with a hard "g") This register process has meant that she knows her little friends' full names too. We had breakfast at the café next door to daycare yesterday morning and she was able to point out any number of the children by their full names, eg "That's Zachary Wise". It was apparently "Patrick Mills's" birthday this week etc (with pure Aussie accent making two syllables from Mills - "Mee-yells")

The other week we were at the park and Alice made friends with another little girl. She could be heard introducing herself as "Alice Largelly". Funny that we should move to the reputedly most informal country in the western world, but end up with a two year old who will probably be shaking hands and exchanging pleasantries about the weather when she is reunited with her grandparents next month.