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I am sure that parents will know how growing toddlers and young children know far more than their parents ever could know!

Eva is going through a phase (hopefully a phase) of contradicting what Mummy and Daddy say, she has a habit of saying it in such a way that sounds as if she thinks we are stupid!

A funny example came last night when we were watching the screen saver on our media centre which shows random photographs from our photo archive.

Daddy on Ben Nevis... That's in Scotland right?

The picture of Daddy (above) came up and the exchange went something along the lines of:

Mummy: That’s Daddy on Ben Nevis, Ben Nevis is in Scotland

Eva: No it’s not!

Mummy: It is it’s Daddy on Ben Nevis

Eva: Ben Nevis is not in Scotland

Mummy: It is sweetheart, its a mountain in Scotland

Eva: It’s not, it’s in Wales

Mummy and Daddy fall about laughing! Where does she get these things from? There is some knowledge of geography there somewhere. Early in her life we did have a holiday in North Wales so perhaps she is associating mountains with Wales which for a 2 year old is rather clever, but it still made us laugh how adamant she was that Mummy and Daddy were wrong!

The Eva Lamp… As I said, she has a thing about putting things on her head. This is the box to her new bedtime lamp!

She loves the actual lamp as well it is a Spearmark Winnie The Pooh 3d Lamp it lights up from inside and gives a nice yellow glow in her bedroom.

Eva has a thing for hats at the moment. I had my chainsaw hat out as I was cutting a hedge at the weekend. She took it upon herself to try it on!

Wednesday last week saw Evas second birthday, on the one had it seems such a short time and in others we look at her growing and can not believe she is only two. She continues to amaze us everyday.

We had a small gathering on Easter Sunday for her birthday, she was of course the star attraction being birthday girl, but she also loves to play up to all the attention and performs all her party tricks for people and laps up all the attention!

She has been throughly spoiled, everyone has been overly generous. We will be sending out personal thank yous to everyone.

Although life over the last two years has changed drastically from before she was born, we would not have it any other way. She keeps us on our toes, her constant need for stimulation and her irresistible inquisitiveness help her learn new things far more rapidly than we can believe.

One wonders what the next year holds for our little girl, but what ever happens we hope it will be a good one for her as she continues to develop.