So James is now just a week off 22 months. His second birthday is fast approaching! He is growing up fast and is becoming a proper little boy. He finally shook off the endless bugs of the winter and has found some energy to have a long overdue growth spurt. He's now mainly wearing age 2-3 clothes and is rapidly outgrowing his size 5 shoes.
James is just getting to the fun stage of picking up new words every day, and just beginning to put them together (currently only at the stage of 'hello mummy' or 'night-night daddy' but it's a start). He makes a good effort at all sorts of things we say (time to watch our language). However when he's pointing at things like diggers or dogs it's still mainly 'ner' and when he wants something it's still mainly 'more?'. Some favourite words include 'Wow!' and 'puddle'.
He can now point out various body parts: nose, eyes, mouth, head, feet, hands, tummy. If you ask about something he doesn't know he points to his ears. He likes to do the actions to 'Heads, shoulders, knees and toes'. He also likes doing the actions to various other songs such as 'Twinkle twinkle little star', 'Tommy fish', 'Sleeping bunnies' and his favourite, 'Row row row your boat' (Row-row).
James loves watching slightly older children and laughing at them - they then usually show off for him and the cycle repeats and everyone is happy! His best friend is Alba, and whenever we go anywhere he says 'Alba'? in a hopeful tone. When they are together they run around, copy each other, fall over together and giggle. Alba likes to hug James but James isn't so sure!
James has suddenly become very attached to his muslins - he has always liked to have one in bed but at the moment he likes to carry one round with him most of the day if he's allowed to. He sucks the corners of them and then, in a kind sharing way, offers me a corner to suck and looks rather disappointed when I decline politely.
Unfortunately James is moving rather too rapidly towards dropping his nap. At the moment he's got himself into a two-day pattern - one day he'll have a nap, then go to sleep at about 8.30-9pm. He'll then wake late the next morning and not nap that day. He'll then be shattered and go to bed at 7 and then wake at 7, so have a nap the next day. And so on. I'm hoping to keep the nap going as long as possible. At night James now sleeps through probably five nights a week, which is a big improvement. There's no one in the flat downstairs at the moment, which means we don't have to keep him 100% quiet all night. If he does wake up he's often awake for two hours at a time, but he's quite happy chattering away to himself in his cot.
We spent Easter down on the farm in Sussex with his maternal grandparents and greatgrandparents. We took him to the farmyard at least twice a day where he loved seeing the orphaned lambs, the cattle, the horses and the tractors. Toddler heaven!
Next week we're off on holiday to Greece - I'm dreading the flight, but looking forward to pottering around on the beach with James.
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