19 months: smarty pants

We have an entire box of alphabet books that I bought a while ago. We play with it on and off though not consistently. So imagine my surprise when I randomly tested to see if you knew your alphabet and you correctly pointed to the right letters! You don't know all your letters but you remember 'T' because there is a picture of a train in the book, you also know A, B, K and sometimes M.

Here are some videos when I was trying to prove to Daddy that you knew some of the letters.

You also know some of your colours too. I was changing your nappy, which is a real challenge these days as you always try to wriggle away. So I grabbed the closest book which was one of colours. In a bid to distract you, I asked if you knew where blue was. You flipped to the right page! I then asked for red and yellow and you got them both right. We've been testing you more and you also know green and orange. I'm quite impressed at how you've picked these up. I haven't been able to get videos of you with the colour book because each time you see my phone, you try to grab it to watch Thomas youtube videos on.

Here's a video of your 3rd haircut. I've got a Thomas video on my phone to distract you from the hairdresser.

And yet another video of you with your new Thomas remote control toy. You are so obsessed with Thomas!

19 months: uh-oh

Aunty Mandy bought you a lego Thomas train set on Saturday night, so of course all Sunday you were obsessed with the lego train. Everytime you pulled it apart, you would say "uh-oh".

I have a funny uh-oh story of you. On Friday, as I was putting you in the bath, I noticed you were straining to do a poo so I called out to Daddy to grab a nappy so we could catch it before you did a poo in the bath. Daddy came just in time and we managed to catch one of your little nuggets. We thought we were safe. The entire bath you kept saying 'uh-oh, uh-oh". We couldn't figure out why. As we drained the bath, you put you hand into the water and fished out a lump of poo! Daddy and I both went, "Ahhhh" and I quickly grabbed you out of the bath to rinse you in the shower. Daddy had the job of disinfecting the bath and getting rid of the HUGE poo you did!

While I was dressing you after the bath, you went "uh-oh" again and proceeded to do a wee right on the change table, without a nappy on. I got so scared hearing your 'uh-ohs' after that.

19 months: Sunny afternoon at Woolwich

Daddy and I decided to head back to Deckhouse for lunch. This is the place where we got married almost 3 years ago. After a yummy lunch, we went for a walk along Woolwich Dock and enjoyed the beautiful view of the harbour bridge.

You're a very confident walker now but still fussy about getting dirty. When we put you down to walk along the dirt track, you asked to be picked up again. When we put you down to walk along the grass, you would lift your feet up high to avoid touching the itchy grass. So high maintenance! haha