DD will be 4 in July. She's always been fairly vocal and inquisitive from the time she learnt to talk and she's a very active child (didn't budge until she was 11 months, the crawled/walked/ran in the space of 3 months and hasn't stopped since).
Recently though, she just never seems to stop. (We've been away on a family holiday for a week, in a small 2 room place, so it's possible I'm just a little 'over exposed' to her quirks. I need silence to recharge my batteries, and just didn't get any)
Today for example - she played fairly nicely all day, helped me hang out washing, etc, but there was a constant soundtrack to go with it. If she was playing she was chattering away or making various sound effects. When we were eating dinner & lunch she was humming or singing the whole way through. I tried to read her a story at bedtime, and she chattered or hummed all through it. She talks so much that she doesn't hear us answering her questions most of the time.
And she seems to need to be constantly on the move. Even at dinner, throughout the humming/singing, she was also tapping her feet and banging the fork on the table.
Until recently, I thought she was just an active, chatty child (and my Mum would say it was the Universe getting it's revenge on me - despite my introvert tendencies now, I was just as chatty as a child apparently, although not as active). She asks the funniest, cleverest little questions (I'm still reeling over the series of questions about the moon, stars and where they come from), but they are beginning to be drowned out by the constant chatter so I'm actually beginning to be concerned that there might be something else going on that I'm not spotting. She doesn't appear to have any issues at pre-school. The teacher says she chats a lot, but gets on well with everyone, joins in nicely and does what she is asked. (Unfortunately, I don't speak French particularly well, so I'm not sure how I would manage to question her in more depth - we live in Belgium, so DD is in a French-speaking school).
Is it likely this is just a phase and that I just need to change my approach to discipline/parenting (and that my patience levels are just a bit lower than normal, as I'm pregnant, very busy at work and not getting a lot of sleep), or should I be looking into the possibility that something else is behind all the behaviour?
Any advice please?