Animal sounds
Most children probably start with ducks, dogs or cats, but obviously being a farmer’s son the obvious ones to start recognising would be those he can see out the windows or when we go for a walk down to the…
Milestones
Empathy in toddlers starts here
I’m not sure it’s quite the emergence of empathy yet, but N’s starting to take a lot more notice of what other people are saying or doing. He’s never really been that fussed about trying to copy other people’s actions,…
‘Fraud’ at the Baby Show
Ok, so I don’t have a baby, I’m not pregnant, but we went to The Baby Show anyway. Maybe there should be a toddler show? Or an offshoot hall at the baby show? My main reason for going was to…
Mountain goat or toddler?
N’s now discovered he can get up onto the living room furniture. Before he could only get onto the one with the saggy cushion (that’ll be my chair, then!), but now he can just about get onto both chairs and…
Little Duckling
My little man’s moving up in the world. He’s been doing his settling in sessions over the past week, getting ready to moving up to the Ducklings room at nursery. They tend to move up at around 15 months when…
Last minute swimming breakthrough
Of course it’s typical. With only 3 weeks to go before our swimming commitment is over, N has decided that swimming’s not as bad as he’s been making out since September! Yes, we’ve had a swimming breakthrough. Some people would…
Baby’s first haircut experience
N was born with quite a bit of very dark hair which ended up disappearing (miraculously, where does lost baby hair actually go?! You never find it anywhere on clothes, carpet or bed. Strange), apart from his back ‘mullet’. He…
First words or just jabbering
N’s now 14 1/2 months old and although he’s very chatty, we still haven’t got any specific discernable words…well, I don’t think we have! I think he’s a bit more of a physical type: he was an early sitter at…
When’s a baby not a baby?
When they’re a toddler, of course. It’s a hard one to know when they transition from baby to toddler. My view is as soon as they’re up and walking on their own, then it should be fairly obvious they’ve made…
Rainbow cake and stripy jelly
Ok so N’s first birthday was a week or so ago, but our NCT group of mums & babies decided to do one of our regular celebration get togethers in honour of all the first birthdays. We were hosting it…
First birthday and how to get cake tins for one use
The last year’s gone so quickly…my baby’s not a baby any longer, he’s a one year old toddler. It was his first birthday yesterday, plus with him having started walking a couple of weeks ago, he’s definitely moved into toddlerdom….
