Yesterday was Donné’s monthly get together with her friends from digs and they were at Mel’s family’s egg farm. When they came home Grace told me all about the machine which packs the eggs into the egg trays – she had even made up her own sign for the machine. She also told me all about the chickens that lay the eggs and about the dogs and their tails. I was fascinated by how much the egg machine had made an impression on her, and that she had developed a sign which shows how the egg machine works – and the sign demonstrates the action quite well. We were all on the farm again today, so a visit to the egg machine was a must (but unfortunately it is not in action on a Saturday afternoon).

It was also encouraging to hear Grace saying some new words today – sock and chair – along with putting some sounds together in different ways and more complete pronunciation of some words (actually saying dog rather than gog).

Taking the tractor for a drive