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• Ricky is wanting to update what Ricky did.

• Ricky wanting to update what Ricky played with yesterday.

• The blocks. Duplo. Crayons. Cushion. Drawing table.

• Ricky played with the xylophone hammer, tractors, letters, hexcavator, dump truck, blocks, blocks, blocks, blocks, blocks, blocks.

• Ricky did all of those things and played with the rubbish bin.

• Books.

• Ricky wanting to update that Ricky did all of those things.

• Ricky wanting to press buttons.

• Ricky wanting to sit on the desk. Press some buttons.

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• Label the road! Label the road! Label the road!

• Ricky would like a plate. With a spoon and a fork.

"What for?"

• For, um, stabbing and scooping.

• Ricky is NOT wanting food.

"If you don't eat food you'll be very hungry and that will feel bad. You also won't have any nutrients to grow up big and strong and you won't get big and strong enough to drive an excavator."

• Ricky will have food please.

• One day Ricky will go up the hexcavator treads and into the cab and then he'll hold the joysticks and drive the excavator. And scoop. He'll move a good rubble pile into some dump trucks.

• Ricky wants to sit in with the man.

"I don't think it's allowed for two-year-olds to sit in the cab with the man while the excavator is working."

• What if the man gets out? Just Ricky!

• This is Ricky's little Mummy and this is Ricky's little big Mummy and this is a tree. And this is Ricky's pink vehicle and this is Ricky's red vehicle and this is a flower. And this is Ricky's grey vehicle and this is Ricky's orange vehicle and blue vehicle and green vehicle and brown vehicle and another blue vehicle.

Today's art no longer needs description.

• This is a car and a trailer. The car has a tow ball on the back. The trailer attaches to the tow ball.

• Jacques Kallis bowling against England in nineteen November.

We have this little book of random cricket facts from the 1999 Cricket World Cup. He loves it because it's a toddler-sized book. This results in him randomly telling us cricket facts - or at least, things adjacent thereto - sometimes.

• Bump it down, bump it down into the truck!

• That's a bit of a lady but there's no lady in that picture.

... he was looking at a picture in which you could see a woman's shoulder and the back of her head, so he's not wrong?

• A goom goom goom a gack gack gack.

• Eating hash browns. Pressing the buttons. Frogs. Play with the frogs.

• Ricky not wanting the bubbles to be in the sink.

• Wash the dishes in bubbles!

• Da ba dee, da ba dah, everything's hiding!

• The bubbles are going away! All the bubbles are going away!

• Ricky doesn't taste carrot.

"Do you have carrot in your mouth?"

• No.

• Go to sleep my baby dear, the lovers, the babies and me.

• Ricky going to build Dog a car.

• Now it's a bit of a lawnmower but that's for mowing the grass. Where's the grass? Mummy! Do you know where the grass is?

• I found it! This lawnmower will go on the grass and it will mow the grass! Happy birthday to you! This make it go and this make it loud!

"Why are you covering your ears?"

• Because Ricky wanting to hear Daddy!

• The hexcavator dumps another rock in.

• Oh dear. Ricky's lawnmower breaked!

• Percival Pea is a good nice pea! But we don't read his story.

Today's art was mostly a very avant-garde exploration of colour, but he did colour in a tree I drew. Initially he wanted to add fruit, but then he decided all of the tree needed to be extremely orange. The artist has much to say about modern excess.

• Ricky wanting to read this book! Let's farm! Farm animals!

• Made on the dairy. BEES.

• One second. Ricky is going to do some laps.

He learned what laps are the other day. He did laps of the couch.

• Ricky is off to work! Bye bye.

• Ricky is home from work!

"Where did you go to work?"

• Upstairs.

• Ricky going... where... Ricky's probably going to where we live.

• It's probably going to rain at some point.

• Ricky's going to wait for the shirt to come to Ricky.

• Those are some numbers for Daddy. I believe Daddy does eat them. Two, seven... those are Ricky's.

• Daddy, here's some more numbers. I believe Daddy don't eat them.

I explained "doesn't" and he looked at me like this was the latest in a series of very unfunny jokes about how language works.

• Ricky did get shoes for Daddy and Mummy and Uncle Dave and Ricky.

• Ricky get some numbers!

• These are for Daddy but don't eat them.

"These" were plastic shape toys. I managed to resist the temptation.

• Dig! Boom! Move the earth, move the earth, mark it on the map!

In the interests of not being terrified of my pirate-haunted child, I'm choosing to believe this comes from a book his aunt read him or something.

• Mark it on the map! Up the road, up the road, mark it on the map!

• This dump truck is for Ricky. This one dumps. The hexcavator puts a rock in it and then it takes it and it tips it. The hexcavator can't put a rock in it if it's full.

• Ricky is wanting to turn the sound on.

This particular dump truck has a set of very loud and annoying sounds it plays. It was a Christmas gift from an aunt. We turned the sound off on Christmas Day. Somehow he remembers.

• Daddy's a muna and Ricky's a tunna. The muna cuddles the ginga.

• We might see a crane on the way home but there aren't any cranes now.

• Ricky's wanting to take the Y out of Jenny and put it in Ricky.

Jenny is his cousin.

• Ricky played.

• Played with the cards.

• And hexcavators.

• Played with the little digger.

• And books.

• The guitar goes back. It rolls and rolls and rolls.

• Not the guitar! The yellow thing.

• The little digger moved some of the sand! It rocky!

• Is it Dongy Horocek? No! It's Judy Horocek!

He asked what some words were, and we read him the names of the author and illustrator of Where Is The Green Sheep?

Relatedly:

• Mem Fox. Mem Fox. Mem Fox Mem Fox Mem Fox.

• In the book the bigger digger rumbled up out of the mud!

Different book. This does not happen in Where Is The Green Sheep?

• It got stuck!

• Ricky trying to open Mummy's mouth and put Dog's tail in it.

"Why?"

• Because Mummy is sore!

According to Mummy: not that she was aware of.

• Bye bye!

• Ricky is going to the school sandpit.

• Ricky is home!

• Ricky tipped some sand.

• Ricky didn't bring a book.

• Ricky will have Squirtle when Ricky goes to work.

• Mummy! Do you know what Squirtle likes to eat?

• When Ricky said 'May I' Ricky did have a grape. When Ricky didn't say 'May I', Daddy had a grape.

I absolutely did not. But I didn't give them to him unless he asked politely.

• Ricky wanting to write the word tractor, hexcavator, dump truck on Daddy's screen!

• Ricky worked upstairs.

• Ricky didn't touch things.

• May I type words on Daddy's screen please!

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• M. A lot of M. Wanting to type N. En double yooo.

• Ricky's wanting to type words!

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• Ricky wanting to type more words!

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• A lot of P!

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• A lot of aitches!

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You will probably be able to tell which parts Ricky typed. Some of the quoted comments he made were said during the bit he typed and then I added them.

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• Ricky got a lot of Ts!

• Ricky got only one T!

• Some more Ts!

• Ricky type one more letter.

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• Ricky wanting a lot of Js.

• Ricky type Js this time!

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• That's many Ks!

• Yoooooooooooo. Ooooooooo.

• Ricky wanting to spell Mummy!

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• Spell Ricky!

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• Ricky wanting to make a lawnmower. A lawnmower makes lawns. It cut the grass.

• A little one and a big one.

• Now it a little hexcavator.

No art today. During all of the time we might have done art he was sweeping. Today we unpacked a little broom and dustpan we got for him that's small enough for him to use. He declared: "Ricky is going to do some cleaning."

And then everything was getting swept.

I should note I have no idea how he got the umlaut. There is apparently a way to get an umlauted U in Windows that I don't know.

• Ricky want some more noodles for Mummy!

• More and more and more noodles!

"If we put in more noodles it might be overflowing."

• singing Ooooverfloooowing...

• pointing Do you know what this word is?

• The Huckle Cat Book went bump and bumped at the pram and doonk at Ricky's face! It went boomp pram! Ricky was holding it.

• A blumboomba and a goonkboonka.

• Do you know what this one is?

• Ricky hold Mummy's steering wheel in Mummy's car!

• Do you know what this is called?

• See the corner goes around the edge of the cards and this goes in and you can put the lid on.

• Do you know what this is called?

So we have these phonics flash cards. He's a little young for them, in theory, but he saw them and loves them. He likes pointing out what the letter and picture on the front is, and then having all the example words read to him. Then he points at individual words and asks if I know what they say.

• We just needing a T! We got a G.

• I not tired!

• Play with the sand!

• Like this we go on Mummy's socks!

• In Daddy's bedroom there's some carpet and Ricky get to roll the balls along the carpet. Ricky play like this, we roll them. Aiming. Roll the ball along the carpet. Ricky rolling towards Daddy and then vrooming them back and then do it again. Vroom! And vrooming them again!

In other things he's too young for but very enthusiastic about: a set of carpet bowls (like lawn bowls, but for carpet) that belonged to my father and now belong to us. I remember playing with them when I was probably no more than four or five, so it's kind of amazing now playing with them with my son.

But, notably, his most successful shot was when he got distracted and slapped one backwards to get it out of his way without even looking.

Whether it's Daddy's bedroom or Mummy's bedroom depends on who was with him when he entered, even if all three of us are playing together. (He loves clambering over pillows and blankets, but he's still young enough that he doesn't get a pillow and sleeps in a sack with no loose covers at all, so he often really likes getting to play on our bed.) It's also the only room in the house with carpet.

• Ricky saw the hexcavators! One, two, three, four, five!

• Picked Lamb and Dog up! And Squirtle!

• They were playing tennis!

• Some balls!

• Ricky did some weightlifting! Put weights away. Green, blue. Green and blue.

This was his idea. He did curls. (Two-handed.) The blue weights were 1kg, the green weights were 2kg.

• Went to Grandma's house. Eat some food!

• Saw Grandmother. Played with blocks. Blocks and trucks and another truck and there was a helmet. Mummy couldn't fit the helmet.

• Ricky ate a cupcake. There was sugar on it.

• Ricky reading a book.

• At Grandmother's house sing this is the way the lady rides!

• Played with some toys as well! Grandmother's toys! Ricky played with them. Ricky was trying to build a truck.

• Played with cards! Went dropsy-daisy.

It was a very big day. Since it was Mother's Day there were trips to visit his grandmothers, plus it was apparently arm day, so he was exhausted.

Today's art was a drawing for one of his grandmothers.

I think he hit his limit on the arbitrary nonsense we keep throwing at him (by which I mean irregular verbs). He got another gentle correction this morning and since then it's been so many nonsense words. I have a suspicion he thinks that we must be making it up as we go along so why shouldn't he?

Today's art is on my profile. (One of today's arts, but the other is rather more personal; he and I made a Mother's Day card for Mummy together.)

It's a beach scene. He started with the blue, and then picked up the black crayon and said he was adding a black beach. The long black lines are the black beach, the shorter black squiggles are people.

His mother, grandmother and uncle all asked, so: every line was him.

• a bingkonga and a zingnanna.

• A tear is a drop of water from your eye.

• Tingy-goff.

"Is that supposed to be a real word?"

• No.

"So what meaning are we going to make up for that?"

• A emm.

• It has a P in it.

"Where is the P?"

• At the end.

"Is it a tingy-gop?"

• No! It's pingy-got!

• Like tea!

• Tingy-goh. Tingy-goh. How to spell the word tingy-goh?

"Tingy-goh?"

• NO! Ricky doesn't want Daddy to say that word!

• Tingy-goh. Tingy-goh.

• Daddy do you know what suna-suva means?

"Is that another made-up word?"

• Yes.

"Then no, I don't know what it means."

• It means ginga-zuzz!

"Is that a made-up word too?"

• Yes!

• It start with T. Sunanna start with T.

• I found the H!

This morning we played a game where we looked for a stuffed toy "hiding" under the covers on our bed. It involved a lot of looking, because Ricky was appalled if we actually lifted up the sheet that was covering the toy. The game was to keep coming up with new places to look.

• Tooma snoona.

• SPIDER! ARE YOU BIG? SPIDER! Are you BIG?

He was thinking about spiders today. There was one in the house.

• Ricky cut the paper!

• Ricky's wanting the scissors.

• This blue bit is for cutting but it doesn't work.

He has his first pair of safety scissors now. He's still getting the hang of them.

• If Ricky do like this Ricky can push down and have one scissor and two scissors. Because this is attached. Ricky can't tear it apart.

• Play with crayons.

For those of you who might still be concerned about his insufficiently light green, he now has the box of 64 Crayolas. He has a much better range of green.

• Is it didinga? No!

• Z for Mummy! Y for Mummy! [entire alphabet roughly in reverse] for Mummy!

Letter cards.

• L is not in spaghetti.

• It does have a Q in it!

We disputed this, and:

• NOOOOOOOOOOOO! It does have a Q in it!

"Where does the Q go?"

• In the middle!

"Is it spaquetti?"

• NO!

• B is for BASKETBALL.

Some of today's art is on my profile. We were drawing shapes and he was naming and counting the shapes then colouring them in. At this time he can confidently and accurately count to six, then he might double-count or just keep going with the numbers.

For some reason at the moment he usually skips 16.

• Played cars!

• Ricky vroomed them along the track!

• This bin truck doesn't have a bin that tips!

• Played with the balls on the trampoline!

• This is the U bin and the 2 bin and this is the zero bin.

• This is not a bin. We can fix it. It's probably a U bin or a 2 bin or a zero bin. It's probably everything. There's a lid and there's a two.

• I must sing the rubbish song. The rubbish song! Tip tip the rubbish. Tip the rubbish! The rubbish truck must be on the mat!

• A dinginga and a dimbimdah!

• Played with the drums! Do a dib dib dib!

• Ricky tapped the drums! Tapped the buckets!

• Ricky bounced the balls along! On the trampoline!

• And go tiiiiiip!

• A dingbamba!

• Played with the balls! Juggled them along!

He saw a juggler. He now wants to juggle. Since he hasn't learned to catch yet this is probably going to be challenging for him.

• Do you know where the hexcavator is?

Today's art was a very colourful work that, we are assured, depicts a star. Clearly he's rendering it as perceived via spectrometry.

• HELLO BROWN DOG! The white dog is preparing some FOOD!

(This is shouted into his Duplo bin truck. Because, at the moment, bin trucks have dogs in them. The dogs are driving them.)

• The brown dog can help!

• mrrrrrrr mrrrrrrr mrrrrrrrr

(these are crane noises)

• There's cement EVERYWHERE!

• mrrrrr mrrrrrrr mrrrrrrrr

• More cement!

• Ricky's feet are still clean!

• mrrrr mrrr mrrrrrrr

• Play with cement! Tip tip tip!

• Leave the cement on there!

• Wait! No! Brush it off! Brush it off! Brush it off! Now Mummy can play!

• Where did the duck go? WHERE did the DUCK go?

• Na. Na. Na. Nananananana. Na. Naaaaa. Write that!

• This S doesn't have a flap on it.

• This T doesn't have a flap on it.

• The E is not in the right place! I'm getting all the letters off and putting them on the mat and Mummy can spell with them.

• shakes bucket Where did the handle go?

• singing Na na ding dang na ma nah.

• A ginga and a dinbahdan! Upside-down!

• Threw the tennis ball!

• It wasn't a tennis ball. It was a football.

• Kicked the football!

• Want to throw the tennis ball.

• Rode the velocipede!

• Cricket books! Ricky wanting to read them!

• Daddy pushed Ricky! On the tennis courts! Ricky on the velocipede.

• Hello little upside-down mouse!

• Numma numma numma na gah ping bang dong and Bingo was his name.

• Ricky put the letters down upside-down.

• We got upside. We just need... down!

• There's NO poo!

This is a thing he says. It means one of two things: there's no poo, he just passed gas, and he doesn't want us to interrupt his play to check his nappy.

That, or: he absolutely just did a poo but he still doesn't want us to interrupt his play to check and change his nappy.

• Walk with foot in a bucket! I vroom it!

• It's a bit tricky.

• singing to the tune of Rainbow Connection There's a hexcavator! There's a hexcavator! Tipping some rubble into the dump truck! There's a heckavator, there's a heckavator, there's a heckavator! Tiiiiipping! There's a dump truck! There's a dump truck! There's a dump truck!

• Ricky want more noodles!

"That wasn't very polite."

• Please may I have some more noodles pleeeaaase?

• Where did the rice cake go?

(Answer: in his tummy.)

• BEE. WHY. EM DEE OH. Bung ging DAH DAH WHOA.

• Make it bigger bigger! Ricky can handle it bigger!

(He is trying thicker apple slices.)

• Ricky is going to work.

"Where are you going to work?"

• Hmmmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Hmmm. Um. Ricky's going to go to work in cars.

"Are you trying to say you're going to work in A car?"

• Yes.

"So where are you going to work?"

• Ricky's going to get some letters.

• Daddy's going to work with Ricky.

hands Daddy a letter

• Daddy! Ricky wanting to go to work!

"Oh? Where are you going?"

• Um... To work.

"What are you going to do at work?"

• Ricky going to take some letters!

• Daddy's wanting to go to work with the A!

• Ricky keep that I for another Ricky.

• Ricky keep that I for another Ricky as well.

• Ricky keep that S for spaghetti.

• Ricky look in all the letters and see if there's another Y and I think there's not a Y.

• Ginga and a dinga!

"What did you do on your walk today?"

• Dinga and a gumba!

• Go on a bench!

• singing creepily: Watch the spiderweb. Watch the spiderweb. Watch the spiderweb.

• Go to the school. Run around! Carry Daddy!

I have no recollection of this, but I'm hardly going to call him a liar.

• Ricky want to spell xylophone and hammer and rubbish truck and bins.

You have to respect the ambition.

Today's art was attempting to draw letters. I have seen worse fonts, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend this one for ease of use.

• It starts with a O! I mean... it has a O in it!

This is new. And "I mean..." became the phrase of the day.

• Ricky's riding with the G.

• Ricky's from the shops!

• When Ricky gets back from the shops, Ricky will get this black A.

He carefully placed one of his letter tiles in the middle of the floor.

• Mummy! Bye bye! Ricky's off to the school sandpit!

• Ricky's just turned the O around the right way.

• Ricky's also going to take a little letter with Ricky.

• Ricky's got to the school sandpits!

(said from the kitchen)

• Ricky go to sandpit where the sand is. Bye bye!

• Ricky's also going to take a small bin with Ricky.

• A chusa and a danda!

• That's a speaker box! That's a tunnel box!

• Ricky went in the car to find some shelves. Ricky saw a waterfall and some rocks.

• Raaawr tip the bin! Raaaaaaaaaawr.

(these are noises for raising and lowering the bin on his Duplo bin truck, not roars)

• Tip in the bin! Off it goes! mrrrrrrrrr.

(vehicle noises)

• It going to sleep!

"What do the dogs do?"

I was asking what the Duplo dogs that are inside his Duplo bin trucks are doing in the bin truck.

As it turns out:

• Go woof woof woof!

• Ricky's wanting to spell the word rubbish truck out of letters and the word bin out of letters!

• Ricky wanting to spell Ricky!

For anyone who might be invested in the progress of Ricky's spelling: he managed to spell 'dog' today, but it remains to be seen whether that was a bit of a fluke.

Today's art is on my profile. He said it was a love heart.

• Ricky ride on the bulldozer and there is some music playing on the song.

• There is some music! On the radio!

• Ricky's going to ride to trampoline park.

rides into corridor

returns on foot

• Not quite at trampoline park!

"Oh? What happened?"

• Velocipede fell over!

"Did you come off your bike? Are you okay?"

• Yes. It fell over when Ricky stood up.

"It fell over when you got off? You're not hurt?"

• Yes!

• Ricky's tipping a bin into the big rubbish truck.

• Ride to trampoline park.

rides into the laundry door

stares for a moment

reverses carefully

"It's nearly dinner time. Do you think I could have Ricky for dinner?"

• Yes!

"Om nom nom nom nom..."

• Delicious Ricky!

• A gooah and stink!

• A danga og binga!

• Ricky's wanting to write in Diary Book block and jar and lid.

• Ricky's been shaking the jar! Has a block in and a lid on top.

• Ricky's bringing the dump truck with Ricky.

• A dog and a fox and a purple bear and a lamb and a dog.

• Getting a person! Ricky get a box and put the people in it.

• Ricky going to [supermarket].

"What are you getting?"

• Biscuits! Biscuits for Mummy and Daddy and Grandma and Uncle Mike.

pushes his toy shopping trolley around

gets back on bike

• Ricky's going to [different supermarket] now.

• Getting vegetables. And chicken pouch and some biscuits.

• Where did the trousers go?!

No art today. Too much travel.

I had to get a little creative about the Diary Book text entry, because Ricky was very interested in doing it himself. The art is on my profile.

Apparently it's all rain. It did not rain today.

• A little bit of water, little bit of mud. Little bit of water, little bit of mud. Ricky is washing the letters.

He was washing things on his farm playset. He would carefully touch them to the paper pond, and then to the paper field.

• Drops of rain. They are coming on the floor.

• B. I. Bem. Dee. Yo.

To the tune of B.I.N.G.O.

• Ricky washing the vegetables.

• I fall - I fell down.

He corrected himself.

• Have to get some person! Here's some person. Hello, that's not person.

• Ricky was washing all the letters. Ricky's putting them in the pond. Going to WASH. Mud. Put them outside. Go. Water, mud. Water, mud. Water, mud.

• Water, mud. We don't want this one. Water, mud.

• Ricky lifting up the farm and putting the peas under the ground.

• Bee, I, em dee oh. Washing in the mud. No... don't want the colourful letters.

• Fox does start with an F!

• Spell pirrels. Pirrels! Pirrels. Pirrels!

His mother couldn't figure out what he was saying. She asked: "Can you use it in a sentence?"

• Ricky wanting to spell pirrels.

Can't deny that's using it in a sentence.

We're pretty sure pirrels is squirrels but he's currently finding it funny to say it in a silly way. If you ask, "Are you saying pirrels?" this is the funniest joke ever.

• A sunna is a kind of letter. Like a Z and F and a D.

• A munna is like a F and a T and a P.

• Ricky spelled hexcavator.

• Spelt the cricket books!

Literally. Spelt "cricket" and "books".

(This is still a process whereby the parents will go through the word sound by sound and he guesses which letter is needed. And if he guesses wrong we say what that would sound like and he laughs. "Is it crickem?" "No!")

• I crawled in the tunnel.

• Ride on the velocipede! I rode on the velocipede.

• There's a bin sound! Make a clank sound!

• Clank is the past tense. It's an irregular verb.

And here is where our tendency to avoid baby talk and try to explain things to him is about to meet maybe there's a reason people don't do this.

Firstly for the extended discussion trying to explain to him that clank, when used as a verb, is not irregular. He was at least less certain than the time he was firm on the notion that puppies are not baby dogs.

And then...

• Ricky want to spell the word irregular verbs!

• Bus gets some people in it and the bulldozer gets a man in it. It pushes some things around. It pushes some blocks and a flower.

• Got the bulldozer from Daddy! Also a bus!

They're new toys made of cardboard and construction paper.

• Spell irregular verbs! Ricky found the I!

• Ricky is spelling - Ricky is about to spell irregular verbs with two Rs and an I!

• This is a bulldozer! It pushes things!

Today's drawing is very avant-garde. Ricky drew three thirty o'clock.

The old diary book ran out of pages. There is a new diary book. This is the most exciting thing that has happened in weeks.

• Ricky wanting to have the new diary book!

• Biiiiiig diary book!

It's about the same size as the old one. Not sure why it's biiiiiig.

• A sunna and a nunna.

• We saw some BIG cranes! Saw some cranes!

• A blue crane and a cement crane!

• Drawing a fox.

• Foxes do have heads.

• singing Foxes do have heads!

• A sunna and a bin truck.

• Bin truck!

• It tips the bins!

• That's a new diary book.

• Ricky wanting to put numbers on that.

• Bin truck tipping some bins.

• The dentist has got some animals!

• The animals in the pum pum pum.

• Row row your boat gently down a tream! Merry merry Mummy, like but dream!

• Drawing animals!

• Beemy. Boomy. Pim pom ball!

(It's how he currently pronounces ping pong. We're working on it.)

The animals today were drawn in red, blue and brown. It's giving Warhol.