Sorry its long
In some ways he is advanced but in others he is behind. He started preschool in sept and i thought he was getting on well (which i think he is on the whole) but teacher has asked if he has probs with his hearing as he doesn't respond when they ask him to do something. I am 95% sure its nothing with his hearing and he's just ignoring them but have phoned HV to ask for a hearing test to rule this out. Preschool leader so its importtant to get problems if there are any picked up before they start school.
He is PFB so i've nothing to compare to. He does seem different to other kids and i've had at the back of my mind that there might be something wrong i've put things down to being a typical two year old but now preschool saying that has got me bit worried again.
He's really rubbish at every day things, what you might call life skills, things like trying to undress/ dress himself (won't even try), feeding himself (messes about and takes forever), just general everyday things really.
He seems to have no idea with things like bike riding, ride on toys etc. I see kids less than half his age whizzing round on ride on toys and he just plods around. I don't think there is anything wrong with his balance though as they have a balance rope at playground and he can walk all the way across that and is also a great climber.
Since being a baby he's alway been one of the more lively in a group, child going where they shouldn't etc. He has calmed down recently as he'll now sit and concentrate on TV or toys for a while.
He has a very very good memory. Example mum was in supermarket with him (they do go there everyweek) and she'd forgotton eggs and said out loud 'what aisle are eggs on' he said 9, they were. Then we found after that if you ask him virtually anything he knows what aisle number its on. Also if we're listening to music he seems to know what track number every song is on his CDs, so randomly in the middle he'll say this is number 8 and you'll check and it is.
He can count to about 180 that i've heard him count to and he knows the alphabet and letter names. He's also started recognising words in books or written down that he's seen in other places. We've never pushed him with these things its just what he seems to like and has done himself.
He loves playing with bath letters in the bath and out of the bath, quite often he will get two letters one in each hand and bang them together and sing a song, most of the songs aren't proper words just jibberish but i've noticed they seem to be the same songs depending on what two letters he is holding so there seems to be some logic in his mind.
He tends to get upset if out of routine but we don't have overly strict routines in our everyday life and this doesn't seem to cause a problem. Examples of where he gets upset with changes to routine- at preschool they go down one end of room at hometime and are called when parent/ carer there to collect them. he had been out to have his nappy changed as my mum was coming in to collect him so he could have just gone with mum then but he went mad and had to go down end of room and be called back like normal. At church group he goes to they didn't do colouring at the time when they do colouring and he went mad.
He is quite socialable and will randomly say 'hello lady' or 'hello man' to a random stranger. He is also quite loving and gives kisses and cuddles although sometimes i think he is abit over the top doing this with other kids.