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d.s stood up on his own for the first time about an hour ago. Sorry to be so sad

CAM - that's so sweet. It made me smile. I can imagine how you felt.

Plus, my ds took three steps on Saturday!!!!

Sounds sweet as sweet can be, CAM. I bet she brought the house down.

3 steps is walking, Chinchilla!! I love it when they take their first surprised lurching steps looking as pleased as if they'd invented that method of getting about.

v. excited as my 10 month ds took two (tiny!!) steps on Saturday!!! He's been cruising round for ages, but this was the first shuffle in the middle of the room! He's had a busy week this week - has also learnt the climb the stairs (scary, but it's lovely watching him!) and play peek-a-boo!

LOL CAM. Quite an appropriate misunderstanding for your neck of the woods though, don't you think?
DS, aged just over three, came all the way across London by public transport with me to the Science Museum a week or so ago, and all the way back, having boogied energetically in the Pattern Pod and soaked himself downstairs in the garden, without losing the plot once or falling asleep. NO PUSHCHAIR! Hurrah. And daddy was very pleased with his glow in the dark skeleton present.

DD (9 months) has learned to clap and shout hooray (well something like that!) when her bowl is empty!

ds (14months) likes to cruise the kitchen opening cupboards. So I decided it was probably time to move the slug pellets & weedkiller from a low cupboard to the shed!! Previously I just shut the door again, said 'No, no" and distracted him. Anyway, I refilled the cupboard with plastic bowls, empty cardboard boxes, wooden spoon etc. Ds opened the door, looked at the previously forbidden contents, and went 'Oooh!' with excitement. Then he stepped back, looked at me and said 'no, no, no?' and didn't dive in again until I said that he could play with it all. I was sooo proud & touched that he asked permission and felt that even though I hardly ever say no, he definitely knows what it means!

Also proud because he fed the ducks and didn't eat all the bread himself.

And yes, the cupboard locks are on order - they are just taking a bugger of a long time to arrive by mail order!

My DS (aged 5, will be 6 in February) swum his 200 metres in swimming on Saturday. He is only little and I really did not think he would complete it - 8 lengths of a big pool. I thought he was repeating his 100 metres which he swum before in doggy paddle (but still got his badge). This time he had done 3 lengths in proper strokes (front crawl, back crawl and breast stroke) and I stood at the end when he completed his third length encouraging him saying he only had one more length to do. When he completed his fourth length, I was so congratulatory but David, his swimming teacher, told him to turn round and carry on. He then completed another four lengths. I felt so, so proud. My daughter who will be 10 next week only completed her 200 metres in April 2001 (although she had only just joined this new swimming club from her old one and as at Christmas last year DD had completed her 1000m - 40 lengths). She was able to join their "swimming club" but she is not competitive enough and now no longer swims competitively.

Wow!

I hate to disillusion you Aloha - but my DS had our supposedly childproof kitchen cupboard catches sussed out at 14 months!

Bumblelion, that is a fantastic achievement at his age, will be looking out for him at the 2016 (?) Olympics !

Bumblelion, Aloha, two clever little lads! Did anyone see that story in the press about the Cub Scout who singlehandedly won a Swimming Gala in Durham for his troupe? He entered all 12 races. A relative perhaps Bumblelion?

DS2 said a recognisable word just now - a very rare occurrance for him. I'm even more proud to report that the word was CLANGER!

I'm delighted.

But five is a good age to learn to read! Yes, it is. Well done!

Don't disillusion me about cupboard locks! They haven't even arrived yet and ds shows a worrying tendancy to regard dishwasher tablets as biscuits...

My ds (18 months) has for the last week been putting away his own toys (I've introduced it as a game at the end of the day and he giggles so much while running to get to the next toy I've named and pointed to and gently placing it in his toy box).

Not a great achievement in the scheme of things, but it does make me realise how quickly he's growing up, now he's being "responsible"

aloha, they do look like sweeties or something, why do they have to wrap them in those lovely crinkly wrappers?

Soupdragon, v happy for you about Clanger. Will it be Bagpuss next?

ks, 5+ is actually really quite early for reading, for any child, not just a query dyslexic, so you obviously have a lot to be proud of there!

Marina - not so sure about that Cub - unless he was only 7! Round here in the galas they are only allowed to swim in 2 races, in case one of the troupes does have a brilliant swimmer who beats everybody else! (One of our local Brownie packs used to be run by a woman who kept "her"`Brownies until they were 11 in order to win the local rounders match every year - they were often competing with a team of mostly 8- and 9 yr-olds - she was eventually confounded by the match being fixed for the week the old ones were all off on PGL holiday with school.)

Oooh! I forgot. After he's eaten his lunch/tea and made a lovely mess, I give him a bit of kitchen roll and say, 'Help mummy with the cleaning!' and he sets to, wiping his high chair tray with a will. Oh, it is so sweet. Can you tell I'm totally besotted with my boy at the moment?

Bless!

My DS is going through the helpful stage too at the moment and it is so sweet and funny. We've encouraged him to put his downstairs toys back in the basket before his bath but now he's got it inot his head that he should do it before tea as well which seems a bit excessive to me.

And when I undress him for his bath I give him his clothes to put in the linen basket (in other bathroom). He toddles off naked with his pile of clothes and puts them in the basket one at a time taking special care that theres not a sleeve or leg hanging out. And he's so excited about it.

Ah how lovely Sobernow - you must really enjoy them interacting together. As far as twinkle, twinkle goes DS can do half a diamond with his hands and thats it.

My ds now gives me a big hug when Teletubbies are on, if I say 'Biiigg Huuug' when they do!

janh
the cub only entered every race because everybody else in his troupe forgot to turn up!