Nearly three

It's my birthday in about a week and apparently we are going to the Sealife centre which is fine by me I love fish. The shark on the website looks particularly interesting !

Recently we went to Centre Parks for another family birthday which we all enjoyed a lot. The swimming pools and slides were great as was the walk in the woods.

The wildlife was so tame we had squirrels sitting on the doorstep of the french doors hoping we would feed them!

I had my 2 to 3 year old check recently though I slept through most of the boring questions, I don't have a regular nap any more but I do like to grab 40 winks every now and then when I'm in the buggy or similar. Apparently I am on the 98% for both height and weight which mum says means I will be big bruiser of the family as my brother is about average in height and quite slender. I'm almost going straight into his old clothes as he grows out of them now as I'm noticeably over a metre tall and look more like I should be in the reception class at school which I will not be in for real for 18 months yet.

I can use the computer all on my own and find and play on Cbeebies with no problems, indeed when I close down mum's email without her permission I can go into the history find it and open it again when she tells me off!

The only thing I'm apparently not ahead on is speaking. I know lots and lots of words but pronouncing them so others understand them is not something I'm to good at so I ask them a long complicated question and they only get a word or two it's very frustrating! Mum thinks I am too interested in learning new words and should concentrate on practising the ones I already know a bit more but that's boring !  The lovely speech therapy lady said she wasn't too worried as I'm about right for my age but one or two things I don't do so well might be hearing related so I've been going to see these other ladies who get me to play a game about putting men in a boat when I hear a sound. It's fun for a short period of time but then it gets boring and they don't seem to think we should move on to talking about all the other cool things they have in their room so apparently I have to go back to see some other more important person who has more toys to play with.

Mum says I'm certainly not fully deaf but as hearing problems run in the family a bit it's worth double checking I'm not missing some bits as I don't seem to hear her often but again she thinks that is at least partly me not wanting to rather than not being able to. Mum also mentioned if I have her dyslexia that would explain struggling to pronounce things.

We are also moving on to a new allotment which has hedges all round so I will have less opportunities to run off around the site when we go up there but it does have a climbable apple tree !

Shoulder height

I'm up to my big brothers shoulder now ! He has just crept up to 120cm, an important height as it allows you on the bigger rides at Drayton manor. However I am now 95cms which means I'm still catching him fast, I was about 92cm at my birthday in March. Apparently you can gauge your final height from what size you are at 2 so that would make me going to be 184cm which is six foot or there abouts.

90cm is the height at which you can go on rides on your own at Dryton manor, at least the smaller ones but Mum seems to think I might not sit still well enough, however I really enjoyed all the rides when i went recently with nursery so she says if we go again with my big brother I might be able to sit next to him on some of them ! I liked the look of the Maelstrom and wanted to go on it but she says she wouldn't go on that one and anyway you need to be 130cm to even be allowed on it so that's my next goal then !!

Current obssesions

Spiderman and Ben Ten.. Particularly turning into spider monkey and Humongasaur or as I prefer to call him Dinosaur ! (a new one added - Buggy otherwise known as Big Chill!)

I now weight over 16kg and am big enough for a car seat that says from 4 years up! I am also to big for any normal buggy weight wise but I'm not fat as my height is proportional to my weigh.

We went out for Chinese recently which both me and my big brother enjoyed.

Huge footed Monster

Most kids coming up to their second birthday have about size 5 shoes.. I was wearing 6.5 G but mum thought they were getting too small.. so the lady in the shop measured me.. 7.5F but in the end the shoes that fitted are 8G.. mum seems to think that is a bit big for my age but they suit me just fine!

I am now at my brother's armpit! He'd best start growing or I'll over take him, though he will get even thinner if he goes upward anymore.

Silly brother doens't even know which way up glasses go !

He does however give me rides on his back which is fun !

Mum says I'm very much a little boy now. I sit by my brother and watch him play games and ask for Bee-bees (Cbeebies) on the compute. I like to try and play games on the Wii and pick my own videos and DVDs to watch.  I still adore books and dinosaurs and I chatter away all the time.

Christmas

I enjoyed Christmas though most of my presents are still under the tree as I see no need to open more than one at a time.

I enjoyed playing qwith my cousins today. I am offically a couple of inches bigger than either of them even though they have six months on me, but I am big for my age and they are twins so had to share growing space for the first nine months!

Mum thinks the first of the next set of molars may be coming through judging by my current mood and indeed state of some of my nappies.

Still struggling with canines

My canines are coming through slowly, very slowly..resulting in much grumpyness and difficulty sleeping. Problem with canines is even after they break the surface they continue to have to cut thier way out because they are pointed unlike other teeth that break through all at once pretty much..

Long time no post

Static head

It's longer than I realised since i posted here.

Treestump is growing well and is bigger than many of the two year olds we know. He does both rhythm time classes and a toddle gym class where he out masses most of the kids who are older than him which can make it slightly difficult when he then doesn't act like they do.. the extra 6 months or so making a big difference in normal behaviour.

He is very activly trying to talk now, copying many, many words when they are used. Bubbles is still a favorite and one of his clearest words but he says many more including things like sheep and baa.. rar (dinosaur) is a big favorite. Book, sit (as in you sit here so I can sit on you) and so on. He also strings words together like row, row (row, row the boat), baa, baa (baa, baa black sheep) and he uses several signs like star, bottle etc along with trying to say the word.

The current favorite word this week is fish or rather pish.


I still like my sleepsacs to sleep in which my brother had decided he didn't like by now. i also like sitting in boxes !

I've very good at running, walking backwards, climbing and even balancing on one leg and I am trying hard to learn to jump. I like tramlines too.

I love my food, pretty much any food currently. I also like dinosaurs, cars, fish, books and things I can push like kids shopping trolleys. My current favorite books are Charlie Cooks favorite book, anything with animals or fish, anything with things to feel or music built in.

I have four molars and my top canines are just coming through.

Noodles first tooth fairy visit

Last night my big brother got his first toothfairy visit. He lost the tooth at school though mum thinks part of the root is still in there.

The word of the week is Bubbles

I like people blowing bubbles enough to try really hard to say bubble which I manage enough to make it different from other B words like bottle and ball.

I also like climbing on the table, mummy doens't seem to like me doing that though!

weekend in the park

I went out to the park Saturday afternoon with my big brother, mummy and daddy Jon.

Football was played.

Flowers were studied.I liked the trees and kept trying to look at the leaves which was quite hard on the big ones. Daddy lifted me up but we still couldn't reach them but mummy found me a smaller tree where I could touch the leaves.

I like hedges too. i like to run my hands across them even if they are holly or something spiky though I am a bit more careful then when I realise that.

Songs

I love songs. current favourites are

Row, row, row the boat which I like to do the actions to and sing Row, row whenI want you to sing it for me.

and The animals went in two by two which I sing the Hurrah bit.

strawberries and cuteness

We went strawberry (gooseberry and rhubarb) picking this Sunday which both boys enjoyed immensely. Treestump turned into some sort of character from a bad horror movie with red juice all round his face, down his chin and all over his white vest and shorts.. you know that nice neat way he has of eating? Well it goes out the window when presented with a field full of strawberries !He did however really like the sheep in the field nextdoor so much so he told Tom they were there saying sheep to him to get him to lift him up to see over the solid gate, I'd shown him earlier.He is very cute currently, when he wants something you offer him he goes "yes, yes" and does a little happy dance and when he is sleepy he comes and lies his head on my lap.

At rhythm time his class goes up to 3 so he is one of the younger ones as we move up from the baby class. This means some of the kids are talking quite well and the teacher went round singing twinkle, twinkle little star missing out the last word of each line and seeing if the child she was at could fill it in . He got "Up above the world so" and straight away up his hands up for "high", later at home he was doing all the actions for the song.

teeth for both boys

Treestump has definitely cut his fourth lower front tooth as well as several molars pushing through.

Plus big brother has his first wobbly tooth!!

teeth left right and center

Now two molars on the bottom have just broken through but still no sign of the fourth front tooth!

Quick post

Today i looked in the mirror at the supermarket changing room, pointed to myself and said Eddie.. Mum says no-one told me 14 month olds aren't ment to understand the person in the mirror is me !

Teeth and feet

I now have one of the next set of lower teeth too and another upper molar is trying very hard to come through! I'm rather grumpy at times.

I now take a size 5 shoe don't you think they are great?OK maybe these are't the right size but I like them.

Teeth

Mum has been sure I was teething but was expecting it to be the 3rd and 4th teeth on the bottom.. She was wrong as my first upper molar has just come through !!

Very much a little boy

I now like to give proper kisses and when I want to sit on someone's lap I turn round shuffle back and plonk myself down, even my big brother gets me sitting on his lap. I LOVE books and demand they be read regularly, particularly the ones with flaps and feely bits and the one that has windows where you turn a dial and change the picture that is my favourite.

I can now run very fast indeed, so fast my parents struggle to keep up and save me from the road and other dangers. They say they can't take their eye off me for a moment. I like climbing to !

Party Time

I loved running around at my Grans party and was totally fascinated by the live band. I love dancing to music but when everyone else joined in it got a bit to much for me, all those really tall people getting in the way. Adults kept stopping me going out the front door as well, I only wanted to explore London!

I really enjoyed the trampoline at the allotment open day and even jumped up and down on it properly a couple of times. I have jumped on the ground a couple of times too. My big brother enjoyed himself too.

I enjoy exploring the allotment but I have to be watched or I am off up the lanes to see what else there is on other plots and as there are about 150 of them my parents seem to think it is unwise.

Sorry it's been so long

Hadn't realised it was so long.

Well since last post Treestump learnt to walk properly a few weeks before his first birthday. He now potters round and even dances, twirling round and round till he falls over.

He chatters a way and today learnt NO.. to be accurate he has learnt to shake his head, having had a sign for yes which he has used for ages.. He does try to say yes to so I expect the NO word will not be long.

He is currently fascinated by the cats and seemed to be trying to copy Jake grooming today.

At 13 months he is pretty much completely filling 12-18 month babygros, so I'm having to drag out the 18-24 month stuff! Our friend who knows such things as they are part of her job seems to think he is a similar amount ahead in development stages too ie more like a year and a half than a year. I personally think he months away somewhere when i wasn't looking and I'll find them down the back of the safe when i'm not expecting it. :)

Oh and he LOVES books dragging them over to me regularly saying boc, boc to me so I will read them to him.

The other thing he drags over to me is his nursing pillow, I am quite stunned to say I am still feeding him all be it only a bit a couple of times a day but as I didn't think I'd get past a few weeks I'm amazed. It is more a comfort thing these days and I keep expecting him to get board or I think about stopping but then he gets so excited at the prospect you can't help but keep going for a little bit more at least... but I'm not becoming one of those people who keep on for years believe me !