Julia has hit that stage where she wants to be just like her big brother. She mimics him at almost everything, and really enjoys doing whatever he’s doing. Her latest is that she wants to use the computer just like William does, and she wants to play Lego Star Wars just like him too. She’s not really capable of doing either of those things yet, but she really has fun trying.

Last night, the three of us were playing with blocks. I’d set up a pyramid of blocks, mainly for Julia to knock down, but instead she decided she wanted to help build it taller. Small problem - I’d used all of the alphabet blocks within reach. Without batting an eyelash, she grabbed one of the blocks from the bottom and put it on top. The resulting cascade of one side of the pyramid elicited an “Oh no.” but then she went and grabbed the next one along the bottom and put it on top too. She’s actually quite good at stacking blocks into towers. We had one tower that reached 15 or 16 blocks before it fell over, with William, Julia and I all contributing.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “And there’s a note. It says: Look in the tunk. He must mean trunk.” - Lisa