I’m quite a bit late with this update – life has just gotten in the way recently and I’ve lost my blogging mojo a bit. Though I realise that the next update I write for J, he will be three! THREE! It only seems like yesterday that he arrived in the world. He’s becoming such a little grown up now, everybody says so too. I think when he does turn three, I might do a monthly update like I do with N as he is changing so quickly now that two months seems too long between them. The little man …
toddler development
Toddler troubles – sibling jealousy?
I mentioned briefly in J’s last update that we are having a few problems with J’s behaviour towards his brother, which is really getting me down lately. I really don’t know where to start to be honest. He started a couple of months ago, which thinking about it is coincidentally around the same time as N started moving about a lot more so requiring much more of my attention, meaning J getting a little less so most likely getting jealous. First he started with smacking him on his head, then he started pushing him backwards when he was just sat there …
Little man J at 2 years 8 months old
So my biggest little man is going to be three in 4 months time! How? How?! I must say I am really dreading him becoming a ‘threenager’ as he is absolute terror enough at the moment and we are really struggling with him. He is becoming more & more independent every day. He can now manage to unfasten and take his shoes off, he takes his own coat off, he starting to be able to undress himself. He’s progressed really slow in these areas (but advanced in others) but we are finally getting there – since he’s been at nursery he …
A to Z of Family – L is for Learning
Learning. Every day, we are learning. We encourage ourselves to learn, we encourage our children to learn. Being a parent is a journey full of learning. Even before you become a parent, you go to classes to learn how to be a parent – but can you really learn something that is supposed to come naturally? There is no ‘one book fits all’ in the world of parenting. Nearly three years on, I am still learning, every day. I am learning that being a parent of a toddler is hard, damn hard. But then, being a toddler must be hard too. Frustrating. …
Little man J at 2 years 6 months old
I can’t quite believe that J is now 2 and a half years old – I will have a 3 year old in less than 6 months! (And also a one year old!). He is continuing to thrive & develop so much, I’ve probably said it before but as much as he is testing, he amazes me every single day. His independence is continuing to grow and he now tries to put his shoes on and take them off. If he’s wearing velcro shoes then he can just about unfasten them, though he hasn’t mastered pulling them off yet – though …