We have the flash cards and they are great and Olivia loves them, but I have realised something.............they make a hell of a mess!!

I am a self admitted neat freak, but I realised the other day that the flash cards do exactly the same as a big colourful board book, but a book is simply easier to manage and neater and doesn't get strewn under the couch and end up at all ends of the house!!

So, I have "hidden" the flash cards for the moment, and sorted out a whole load of Olivia's books and now she has her own special bookshelf instead......which she can help herself from.....(she has literally 100's of books, so I have picked out all of the colourful "flash card" type books)

I sound anal, but I would much rather her bring me a book and sit with her and go through it 100 times than pick up those bloody flash cards off the floor even once!!