This post is for w/e Sunday 19th October.

George had a big morning sleep last Monday and woke up with a whole new vocabulary...he has been talking up a storm, very busy telling me what he's up to. He loves to suck his hands and wave them around in the air. We have noticed that he is starting to connect and hold onto objects that are hanging over his head on the activity mat. The other thing he has started to do is suck his thumb (and only the right one). He doesn't do it all the time and most often when he is going off to sleep. I am now feeding him every four hours during the day and the last few nights he has slept from 7pm - 3am...I think we are getting closer to sleeping through the night!

Joseph and I have been reading "The Three Little Pigs" and on Thursday I made him a house with a chimney. I got to be "Mummy Wolf" and he was one of the pigs. We had a great time re-enacting the story together.

On Friday night, we had Robert and Patricia stay (Robert is Kate's (my sister) brother in law). They were quickly adopted by Joseph as new blood to read him unlimited stories. Here is Patricia and Joseph reading the Richard Scarry Dictionary (one of the current favourite books).


Saturday morning saw Joseph and I head off to the YMCA for our first gymnastics class...we're doing a nine week course. I haven't got any pictures of this (yet) as the parent helps the child do the activities and Dan was at home with George. There were only about six children there and Joseph was the only boy. All the girls had been last term so they knew what to do - I am sure we will learn quickly! They set up the gymnasium with all sorts of activities (ladders, ramps, slides, tunnels, trampolines etc) and then the children can explore everything at their own pace. Joseph enjoyed the trampoline and the balance beam. After that Joseph and I went to the library to refresh our book stock.

The weather is getting warmer and I've started to break out some of Joseph's new summer clothes. Last night he wore his new shortie pj's - here is his doing his best shark impersonation.

And then from this morning, Joseph in new shorts and purple tshirt from cousin Rebecca in Cambodia (he specifically asked for his purple tshirt - I'd selecte a green polo but he wasn't interested!). George is in hand-me-down clothes from Joseph! But Joseph was so much bigger that he hardly wore these!