Bedtime

He loves bedtime so much at the minute, especially as the books he's reading are so much fun to read that we regularly spend 45 minutes reading together. But anyway today was the first time he used a cup without a lid for his bedtime milk, which he was very proud about, especially as it "says me" on it! He keeps picking his foam letters out in the bath and saying "That is a mmm for Mummy," "That is a c for me," and "That is for Andrew," because he hasn't learnt it's an 'a' yet!

Gingerbread

Charlie made some gingerbread when he was at his Nanna's this weekend. We shared the last of it last night after tea ("You can have the heart Mummy and I have the bat, for the bat hasn't got any raisins in.") and he thought it was really funny when he bit the bat's head off. It was kind of funny so I took a picture. Got my own little Ozzy!

Lovely phrases

Yesterday I got told "No, Mummy, YOU are a beg to differ." I had countered his "I am a really good boy," with "I beg to differ!" and 2 days later he decides it's his new insult. I also got "I love you trillions and trillions Mummy, you are a fat snowman." Charming!

Just a quick one!

My big boy at our "big posh new posh table"!

Charlie's new words!

He's stringing more and more words together all the time, last night he learnt that Nanny was a nurse at Winterton. We tried Nurse Practitioner, but it was a bit of a mouthful! 

He's also developing a definite independent streak, he refuses to let me dress him even though he can't do it himself, his favourite phrase at the moment is "No, no, no, Mummy CAN'T help me, I do it myself." This applies to pretty much everything, including climbing up to his rather high car seat and regularly taking a full 5 minutes to actually get up!

He also knows where a lot of people live - including Ada Tweet-Tweet lives at Morton with Grandma, Nanny lives at Scotter with Grandad, Auntie Rae lives at Scunthorpe with Chris (and "another Chris lives with Alyssa"!) and Andrew lives at Retford with his house. Oh, and Maddy lives in "Japanned"!

There are lots of pictures and things to be putting up - we have a new dining table that he's very excited by, he likes eating like a big boy (except when I use being a big boy to try and convince him to do something, then "No, no, no, I not a big boy!")

I'll put some pics and videos up as and when, but just thought it might be nice for people to be able to keep up and hear the little things he's up to, and I promise I will actually keep it up to date!