Names, names, names (Anna)

Emma has started to name her animals and toys, rather than just referring to them as "piggy", "horsey" "doggy", etc.

A few weeks ago, she named one of her ducks "Paris."

Then, this morning,she was playing with a bunch of animals and she said "What's the horse's name?" So we encouraged her to come up with a name for the horse and she thought for a moment and said, "Horse's name is...Duck."

"The horse is called Duck?" we clarified.

"Yup,' she said happily.

And then she named her cow, and her tiger and her turtle. Their names? Duck.

So now we have a farm of animals who are all called Duck. Except for the duck, which is called Paris.

Hopefully, we can now say, "Do you have Duck?" and won't have to spend hours looking for the right one. But that might just be us being hopefully idealistic.