Always something to make me snigger in them (like the one where you had to offer a child a toy in each hand, and then a third to see what it did )
18 months:
"He can walk while carrying a toy, can sit down and stand up and may start climbing up the furniture."
May start climbing furniture?!!?!
"In fact his hand and eye co-ordination is so good he can see something and fool you by reaching for it while looking somewhere else"
Ah yes, the classic - I'm just looking at that wall there mummy, you can't see the playstation leads wiggling behind my back...
"Problem solving is no longer beyond him. He will try to work out ways of getting things he wants, navigating child locks, squirming out of his car seat"
"He may start having tantrums, which can be triggered by trivial events, or by you stopping him from stepping out in front of a bus. You'll know when you see one, but the ingredients are: screaming as if being murdered, flopping down, flailing around with his arms and legs and sometimes banging his head. A red face (both his and yours) are essential."
pmsl!!!
"He'll enjoy pulling and pushing toys, walker toys that he can sit on and move with his feet, water play (sticking his chubby hand into your glass of diet coke), big crayons and pencils he can poke his eye out with..."
I love these updates because they are real, honest descriptions. None of this learning whilst he sleeps, investigating his world stuff - proper "he's going to be hell on earth" descriptions