It's been a little quiet around these parts lately.Your 3 hr day nap has been reduced to 1 hr when you feel like it, which a lot of the time you don't so I am only just adjusting to having nil time to do anything really....oh except go to the toilet, make coffee and fashion together something resembling dinner.
But difficulties aside, this post is going to be a celebration of new things to come, namely your turning two (next month), our trip to Vietnam (in less than two weeks time) and your starting daycare.
It's been a month or so since my last post but it honestly feels like longer. I've barely had the time to breathe lately and your energy is just growing in leaps and bounds.
You have lots of favourite books and one of your absolute must-reads on a nightly basis is Wombat Stew. I'm sure it's because I tell it so well but you really just love to chime in, 'that, fat wombat,' and many other excerpts as I tell the story. You also love There's a Wocket in my Pocket, A Particular Cow and Stormy Weather.
You have discovered the art of pretend play and one of your favourite things to do is play shops. You regularly demand we do this by announcing, 'shopkeeper, shopkeeper,' and knocking on the fridge door and then proceed to go through your box of goodies and tell me what you have for sale. I really have to get you a pretend play carton of eggs because we recently made an omlette and I allowed you to beat the eggs after I'd cracked them and now you wake up every morning saying 'crack eggs'.
Your newish second-hand kitchen is proving popular as are playdough, finger puppets and mud castles which you make from the dirt outside using one of your plastic drinking cups. You also love to build things with your Mega Blocks and sit in your car. Painting with a roller and drawing 'snakes' with coloured pencils never fail to entertain but you are at your happiest when you are just pottering around outside shifting dirt from the pot plants onto the ground or pretending to vacuum with your hula hoop.
You are growing cheekier by the day and absolutely dread having your nappy changed. You don't even like getting changed out of your bed clothes as it means having to remove your 'soft long pants' (aka trackies) which are clearly one of your most prized possessions.
In the bath you love to slide along the tiles on your belly and make noises with your foam farm animals. You also like to use your shark water pistol and to splash water everywhere, particularly at me or my many bums.
Your personality is developing all the time but you are still rather cautious and prefer a chaos free environment. The exception to this is mini maestros (your weekly music class) and outings on the train (which we are doing increasingly). Both of these situations have the potential to bring on a sensory overload but you seem to bask in this kind of happy commotion.
Your verbal language is moving ahead and you can now string three words together and increasingly add please to the end of sentences with a request. How lovely. You did get a taste of 'no way' for a while there but that seems to have lost it's attraction, thank goodness.
In 10 days time we are getting on a plane and heading for Vietnam. I have been discussing this with you for the past few days and you seem pretty excited about the prospect of flying. I am so excited about this holiday. In fact, I've been planning our itinerary down to the smallest detail. We are having a pretty conservative holiday (considering we practically slummed it on a 16 day Intrepid tour through Borneo on our honeymoon) and have elected to visit just three towns over two weeks. The majority of our time will be spent in Hoi An and we are spending 4 nights in Ninh Binh which I am so excited about, having discovered it a few weeks into my trip planning and changing our entire itinerary just to fit around it.
A week after we return from Vietnam you start daycare for two days a week. I still haven't found work for myself and this has me more than slightly worried but I know that I will be able to go back to doing relief work if the situation calls for it. In many ways I think your starting childcare is going to be harder for me than for you and I do hope this is the case.
You are nearly 2 and although we don't have a party planned for your birthday I know I'm definitely going to make you a cake - I just have to decide what it will be.
For all of it's frustrations toddler-hood is actually beginning to grow on me and on you too.
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