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Child’s jigsaw success

ByEmma August 5, 2020

I’m so impressed with my little man. He can now quite happily work out his wooden jigsaw puzzles and has been able to for a few weeks now. It started with his Melissa & Doug birthday/Christmas present from my godparents…

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Toddler Ministry of Funny Walks

ByEmma December 25, 2020

Now N’s been walking for some months, he’s getting more adventurous and confident about his movement. Sometimes it’s all a bit amusing as he decides to try different actions. We’ve had the ‘soldier/can-can type, kicking up the legs in front…

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'Playing' the piano, in his hand-me-down England t-shirt

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Babies and feet goings on

ByEmma December 25, 2020

N is obsessed with feet at the moment. Babies and feet – they do seem to go through a phase of this. Not so much his own feet. Although he is partial to pulling up his trouser legs while he’s…

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Cousin adoration

ByEmma June 19, 2018

We’re very lucky in that our immediate family on both sides are within 7 miles distance of us, and OH’s family are within a mile or so. It means N regularly sees both his grandparents and his aunts, uncles and…

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Teething – incisor number 1 arrival

ByEmma December 26, 2020

Finally, after him having been teething since January seemingly non-stop (last tooth’s arrival in early March), we have incisor number 1. It’s a top one, and I can see the other top one just under the surface so hopefully that’ll…

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Animal sounds

ByEmma June 19, 2018

Most children probably start with ducks, dogs or cats, but obviously being a farmer’s son the obvious ones to start recognising would be those he can see out the windows or when we go for a walk down to the…

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toddler cramming blue harmonica into his mouth

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Empathy in toddlers starts here

ByEmma December 26, 2020

I’m not sure it’s quite the emergence of empathy yet, but N’s starting to take a lot more notice of what other people are saying or doing. He’s never really been that fussed about trying to copy other people’s actions,…

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‘Fraud’ at the Baby Show

ByEmma March 30, 2024

Ok, so I don’t have a baby, I’m not pregnant, but we went to The Baby Show anyway. Maybe there should be a toddler show? Or an offshoot hall at the baby show? My main reason for going was to…

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Mountain goat or toddler?

ByEmma March 11, 2023

N’s now discovered he can get up onto the living room furniture. Before he could only get onto the one with the saggy cushion (that’ll be my chair, then!), but now he can just about get onto both chairs and…

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Little Duckling

ByEmma March 11, 2023

My little man’s moving up in the world. He’s been doing his settling in sessions over the past week, getting ready to moving up to the Ducklings room at nursery. They tend to move up at around 15 months when…

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practising swimming on his back and kicking

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Last minute swimming breakthrough

ByEmma December 31, 2020

Of course it’s typical. With only 3 weeks to go before our swimming commitment is over, N has decided that swimming’s not as bad as he’s been making out since September! Yes, we’ve had a swimming breakthrough. Some people would…

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