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That's Tao.
He's more on than off the toilet training/learning
now, been to the toilet twice today to do wees (he claimed poo the first
time but the poo never showed up in the toilet or in his nappy). Might
have to invest in a few sets of one wet pants and get a stool for the
toilet. Now that Josh has finally finished exams (still got a
presentation to go but that's not such a big deal, it requires dressing
up nice and knowing what you're talking about when people ask questions
about your poster) we might be able to focus in on the family a bit
more, and encourage Tao to use the toilet a bit more.
He's eased
up with the night feeding as well finally, he fussed a little bit at
2-3am when Ru woke up for her feed, but he didn't wake up and he didn't
have a feed, he resettled eventually with me patting and cuddling him.
He did have a couple of feeds later but the sun was up so I didn't mind.
I've
just found out he can read the word "drum" (I don't know why). I wrote
it on his magnadoodle and before I could tell him what it was he said
"jum!" (approximate spelling of the word he uses for it) and grabbed his
tambourine out from the toybox, put it on the coffee table and
proceeded to bash on it. Quietly, because Ruan was sleeping. He
recognises letters and he keeps asking me to write words down (mummy,
daddy, Tao, Ruan, nanny, drum, dog, cat, etc) so I guess he's picking up
pretty quick.
He calls his sister "Wuan" and a couple of times
has patted her back to sleep when she was unsettled. One time she was
crying in the room and I was trying to comfort her and work out what she
wanted and Tao came sprinting in looking quite concerned, but lost that
look when he saw I was there.
I'm working through some English
workbooks with him at the moment, they're supposed to be for 3-4yos but
he seems like he's handling it fine, surprising considering I got them
for him to colour the pictures and maybe do the exercises if he
understood them. He's working out "same" (and possibly "different") at
the moment (Book 1 of the 10) so that's what we're doing. He likes
drawing circles and colouring the circles in. And then colouring
everything on the page :) Gotta get him those maths books as well.
I'm
hoping he'll do more of this going to sleep by himself thing as well. i
tried feeding him to sleep for his nap a few times today but he never
went to sleep, the last two times because Ruan stirred and made noise,
so he turned over and patted her back to sleep. He had a wet nappy so I
changed it and then tucked him in on the futon in front of The Wiggles
and he eventually dropped off himself.
He's been watching way too
much tv lately, he gets up early in the morning, asks for The Wiggles
and Josh puts it on for him so he can get some work done. Then it's
usually going all morning. Now that Josh is off uni hopefully we'll be
able to actually do stuff together, and I know Josh is stressed out and
tired and wanting to catch up on sleep, but hopefully the change in pace
will relax him so that he sleeps better at night and the relaxation
helps to catch up the sleep he missed, and also make for less tv for
Tao.
I'm so proud of my little big boy. He's going to be 2 at the end of next month.
I
also want a book called Take Control of your Fertility. Might do the
natural family thing properly I guess rather than cobbling together from
net resources. If Josh thinks about knocking me up again I'm cutting
his nuts off. With the lid off the bottle of pregnancy and
breastfeeding formula (it's plastic).
Three weeks til we head off
to Christmas Island. I have no idea what's happening with the house
mainly coz Josh and his parents have organised some round robin
something or other so there's people that are going to be here and
possibly working on various aspects of the garden each week. My poor
cats are going to be so confused. Started explaining things slowly to
them already and trying to work out where Tao's little cloth backpack is
and how we're going to manage the nappy situation. Currently it's
involving uberstuffing two night nappies and praying for a poo-free
flight. Though as far as I'm concerned other patrons be damned, I'm
using a spare seat to change them. The "change table" in the plane
toilet is dangerous.
Speaking of dangerous, if I hear too much
about is Santa going to bring you lots of presents/ Have you been a good
boy this year? or any more about "he's going to hate his birthday coz
he'll only get half the presents" I might have to reconsider trying not
to kill people. Bloody silly season. I like the idea of Christmas
but...bloody silly season :P