I've been bad letting two months go by with nary an update, so it seems like a great way to start the New Year.
Peter is so much fun these days. For one thing, he's a chatterbox. I love that. He is always asking "What you doing?" or "Where X going?" He has to ask approximately three times so he can be really sure.
He also likes to relive his day or some show he's watched. The other day we were outside on a walk and he announced with great seriousness that "Fwanklin don't like cwibbage." Julian just stared at him blankly, but after a second it dawned on me that a few days earlier he'd been watching a Franklin video where the little green turtle explains he doesn't like cribbage, and instead prefers checkers. Random! Peter informed us he also does not like cribbage, so we assured him we do not currently own a set.
Some of his cuter expressions these days:
"My favourite!" as in "Mmmm, peas, my favourite!' or "Jingle Bells Grandma's new favourite song!" (Um, I doubt it)
"Cuddle time" as in a demand for a snuggle.
"Haywire!" - not sure he knows what it means, but he heard it in the aforementioned Franklin video he has and often tells me things are "going haywire." He might think it's an actual place though, and he usually has to chase them down if they are going there.
"I okay!" when asked if he has to use the potty, feels sick, is tired, hungry etc. If he is not, he chirps, "No, I okay!"
"I do it myself!" - guess this is hallmark of age 2!
He's also started to count. He has known his numbers for a while, at least to 10. It gets a little dicey after 12. However, recently has actually been able to count how many of a certain thing there are, rather than just parrot them back to us, at least when we're under the number 5.
He does things that make us laugh all the time; for example, pulling a bag of nut slivers out of the cupboard and pouring them all over his dinner, then announcing "Look Mummy! A castle!" or calling a woman running by a "little boy."
What can I tell you about his personality? Well, he does remind me a lot of myself as a child. He is quite determined to get his own way, and occasionally bats his very long lashes to get what he wants. He does tantrum when he doesn't get his way. He also likes to have things explained to him.
He can be a very sensitive soul. We try to rarely raise our voices and when we do, he cries. For example, he was standing in his high chair and trying to climb over the back of sofa and I yelled "Sit down!" (after having said it three times) and his lip jutted out and he burst into tears. He's a worrier too. After seeing Peter at the local family centre, he became very anxious about going there. And we've been telling him about a new daycare situation he'll be in for January (our provider is away for the month), and we when we went over to check it out he had to repeatedly be reassured that we weren't leaving him there that day.
Hopefully he will react well to his new little sibling, arriving mid-June. We went to the midwife earlier this week and since then he has been telling us how he "pressed the button" (on the Doppler machine) and "listen Mummy's baby's heart" which went "chicka,chicka,chicka". So crazy to think that we will love this second little bean as much as we love our little man.
Anyway pour little mite has been sick with a fever for the past few days, so if you're reading send him lots healthy vibes for 2010.
NB: Photos on this page taken by threebirdphotography.com.
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