HI again,
Glad to see everyone is still here and doing well. It's good to read that all our babies seem to be crazy at the moment. I have Thomas by myself on Fridays and I find it hugely exhausting (being 24 weeks pg doesn't help of course). He is a great little boy, very lovely and the cutest around ;)
He has been walking since his birthday and now likes to dance as well. His idea of dancing is standing in one spot and hupsing up and down with his bum. The other day I started turning circles and he copied me. After a minute he was very dizzy but he thought it was great fun and did it again.
Thomas is getting a bit better at feeding himself. He likes to hold the spoon and try and scoop something on it but he doesn't quite know how to yet. So often I fill up his spoon and put it inhis bowl, ready for him to pick up and put in his mouth. His highchair is right by the fridge and he now often stops halfway through his meal and starts 'asking' for yoghurt! We're trying not to give in every time he does that as he would eat yoghurt only!
He can say a few words but most of them are very unclear. It is ocvious he's trying to copy what we say though. If we say 'bath' he'll say 'ba..' so that's a pretty good attempt, I think. He's learning Dutch as well as English so he might be a bit slower than other babies with starting to speak properly. It must be so confusing when daddy teaches you one word and then mum comes and tells you something different He's really good at understanding all sorts of requests, like 'go get your book'. It makes him seem so grown-up when he actually responds to what you're saying. This morning I asked him where his nose was and he pointed at it! I was so proud.
Last week he got his first haircut. It was long overdue but it's another one of those things that makes him seem like a proper toddler rather than a baby. We did it ourselves, with DH's hair clippers. I was afraid Thomas would start crying after 10 seconds but he was fine so he now has reasonably short hair again. It looks much fuller now too so we like it.
Yesterday we moved him into his new room and his new cotbed. This is all in preparation for the arrival of his little brother in January. He was quite excited about carrying his bears through to his new room and slept fine the first night but today at naptime it was a bit more difficult. He cried for quite a while but I suppose that could have been for a different reason. Tonight he went to sleep just fine again.
To answer Dinosaur's question about sleep: T has one nap of about an hour (sometimes longer) when at nursery. We've tried doing one nap at home but he's usually so exhausted after 4 days of nursery that he needs 2 sleeps on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday we can sometimes do 1 nap again. When he does 2 naps he usually has about 45 mins at about 9.30 or 10, after which I wake him up. He will then have (almost) 2 hours at 1.30 or so. I never let him have more than 3 hours per day and never let him sleep after 4.30. At night he sleeps from 7 to 7. We're so lucky!
Now I have a question too: Is anyone else's bubba hitting them in the face? Thomas often gets very excited and as a way to show his love (I like to think that, anyway) he suddenly slaps us in the face. He is also into head butting! He'll come for a cuddle but just bang his head into your lip or something.
I took T to TumbleTots last week and he was ever so shy! So unlike him! It seemed like a nice thing to be doing with him though so I'll go again this week to see if he feels more at ease. He tries to climb on everything in the house so I'm sure a little bit of gymnastics is right up his alley.
Right, I'll leave you here. Have a nice week!