DD has toy cars/ other vehicles but can take them or leave them. She is still mostly interested in toys meant for 4yr olds, but also likes lift-the-flap books, drawing (pencils, pens, crayons, chalks, aquadoodle, magnetic drawing board, anything), a ride on zebra with flashing lights and annoying songs, the ipad, my mobile phone. She discovered cuddly toys a couple of weeks ago. She had previously showed no interest at all, but suddenly loved a couple of them and picks them up and cuddles them saying aah. There is a bear and an elephant she will particularly look for at bedtime, which I am very much encouraging in the hope that something other than me and my boobs will bring comfort at night!! Water play is popular at nursery but we don't have it at home until this morning when she crawled to the kitchen and was sat splashing in the cats' drinking water, which was great until it was all over the floor and she was soaking wet. The cat wasn't too impressed either.
strawberry With DD1 I tried to avoid pink, girly stuff because I don't like it, but, since she has been old enough to choose, her preference is very much for pink clothes, dresses not jeans, dolls, Disney princesses etc. There is no hope for DD2 because she will have a lot of her sister's clothes handed down and plays with sister's toys and is generally massively influenced by her sister in every way at the moment, though that might all change and they might end up like my sister and I, who are very close in age but as children were completely different and shared very few interests.
The Cough From Hell has returned here (well, it never really went away but did improve somewhat) and is continuing to steal all our sleep. We are all exhausted. I worked Wednesday night and am usually the one getting up with the coughing crying child, DH spent Wednesday night with a coughing crying child who really wanted mummy to be there and both DDs are coughing all night.