Two and a bit

Chris Hart — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:37:23 GMT

I have been amazed at how quickly Nathan has changed over the past few months. He never stops talking, and while we may not catch every word, he tries so hard and you can hear his pronunciation improve daily. His rapidly exploding vocabulary is amazing - he knows numbers up to 12, all the letters by name, and takes pride in telling me how we have "one gate, two gates" on our stairs. His enthusiasm for life is fantastic, and it makes for some hilarious moments - shopping in Sainsburys is possibly the best example, since he will shout out the numbers of each of the aisles as we go down them. He's also getting the hang of brands, and enjoying the likes of Bob and Thomas - partly though exposure at the nursery. And his friends at nursery are very sweet - each morning when I drop them off, they run over to say hello.

Of course, he has his little moments - he gets very frustrated if we don't understand what he's saying, and if he decides he wants to do something, we have to tread very carefully if we don't really want him to do it. We get told off regularly, and we get told what to do quite often. "Sit down, play cars", for example. And then last night, he was being cheeky and refusing to go to bed by telling me, with a smile on his face, how "Bob's hat is yellow..., aaaaand Wendy's hat is blue..., aaaaaand Scoop's yellow, aaaaand... " and so on - makes it _very_ hard to tell him it's time to go to sleep!

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Two and a bit