Child’s jigsaw success
I’m so impressed with my little man. He can now quite happily work out his wooden jigsaw puzzles and has been able to for a few weeks now. It started with his Melissa & Doug birthday/Christmas present from my godparents…
Family life
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Toddler Ministry of Funny Walks
Now N’s been walking for some months, he’s getting more adventurous and confident about his movement. Sometimes it’s all a bit amusing as he decides to try different actions. We’ve had the ‘soldier/can-can type, kicking up the legs in front…
Babies and feet goings on
N is obsessed with feet at the moment. Babies and feet – they do seem to go through a phase of this. Not so much his own feet. Although he is partial to pulling up his trouser legs while he’s…
Cousin adoration
We’re very lucky in that our immediate family on both sides are within 7 miles distance of us, and OH’s family are within a mile or so. It means N regularly sees both his grandparents and his aunts, uncles and…
Teething – incisor number 1 arrival
Finally, after him having been teething since January seemingly non-stop (last tooth’s arrival in early March), we have incisor number 1. It’s a top one, and I can see the other top one just under the surface so hopefully that’ll…
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…
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…