Patting myself on the back.
Unfortunately there isn't too much to tell. The big news of the month was James and Finn's trip to the Isle of Man - but he covered that already... so this will just be a bunch of photos with very little stories to go with them. We've still been in the thralls of illness after illness and, as James mentioned, Finn is hard-core teething. He's getting his very back molars now - which don't usually come until closer to two years old, but that's our Finn - he may not be the brightest knife in the shed but boy can he grow teeth!
Anyway, it is making him MISERABLE and we haven't made it out to do much fun stuff as a result.
But anyway - update!
I'm going to break with tradition and show you the update outtakes FIRST. These are the pictures we tried to take on the 2nd. They didn't work. He would not. sit. down. But they are still pretty cute and give you an idea about how tall he is now.
I should note though - he looks like he's standing on his own. He isn't. He's leaning against the wall. Here they are:
But a couple days later we tried again and got an official update pic. So here they are side by side.
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| 17 months old |
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| 18 months old |
The reason it is in a new location is because we are in the process of moving to a new flat. That being said we've been "in the process" since November - it's a very long 'process.' But we're hoping it will happen fairly soon. The place we're moving to is unfurnished (unlike where we are now) so we have started collecting some furniture etc. That means that we now have TWO tables in our tiny flat, EIGHT chairs... etc. And we got this giant sideboard thing... it's huge. I got it off of freecycle and didn't really check the measurements first. Ah well. So it's taking up another large chunk of the living room. At least Finn thinks it's fun!
As I mentioned before, he still isn't walking. I'm not sure when you should start to worry about that sort of thing... but nearly all the other babies in his nursery are walking, including some who are much younger. He doesn't crawl much though - he just makes you hold his hands everywhere. And he doesn't seem to have any interest in doing it on his own whatsoever. None. He will practise if you make him, but for the most part it just gets in his way of getting whatever or wherever he wants. And if you simply refuse then he complains for a bit and then will just crawl off - no attempt to stand or anything. Maybe he is just the laziest of lazy babies. Which is another thing - he really isn't a baby anymore. He's a toddler. But he doesn't TODDLE... soooo... what do you call him eh? A pretoddler, I suppose :)
What else?
I think I mentioned last time that his sleep is getting much better. That is still true. Amazing what a difference it makes! When his teeth are really bad, we're still up with him a few times a night but he can (and does) sleep through the night and get himself back to sleep if he wakes up. Which is so nice. Partly this is down to James' "sleep training" which is simply an absolute refusal to take him out of the cot in the night. If he's in pain or ill we do, of course, but luckily it's easy enough to tell the difference in his crying. This training started while I was away in York for a couple days for work. I came home late at night to find this on the bedroom door:
And was instructed to sleep in the living room. This went on for about a week in preparation for James to be on his own in the Isle of Man. The main thing was weaning Finn off of me in the night. He'd been 'weaned' off of milk in the night for ages of course, but if he knew I was there he still wanted me in the form of a cuddle or a kiss... and I will be the first to admit that I gave in. A lot. So I was banished from the bedroom in order to take the temptation to step in away and thereby spoil all the work that had gone in. Also that fact that Finn somehow just KNOWS when I'm nearby... even in the dark!
And as much as I still hate it - if we ignore him he now usually goes back to sleep on his own eventually. It's the 10 minutes of screaming that I can't handle though. But he only does that if he knows I'm in the room - if I'm sleeping in the living room (or in a different country!) then he is fine. So I'm hoping that this new place where Finn gets his own room will help out with that.
But anyway!
What else?
Finn does have a few new words - in addition to 'choo choo' and 'ne naw' he has: ball, bus, car, and cheers (said while clinking cups together! He learnt that one from his friend Lily). I think that's it... he knows a LOT of new animal noises though, so that's fun. The monkey is my favourite. And he can identify a lot of things that he can't say. Always surprising when you are reading story and say 'elephant' and he points straight to it! I particularly like it when he imitates us by putting on a 'funny voice' - we do it a lot when we make his toys talk and his version of it is hilarious!
Other than words, he recognises songs and the motions that go with them.
Speaking of songs - although we don't have a TV, we do watch things on the computer from time to time and Finn's new favourite show is Bob the Builder. Which I'm ok with because it's pretty good, and only 10 minutes an episode! Lately he's taken to pointing at the computer and asking for 'Balla Biller' which is pretty funny.
He loves the theme song though and gets excited and dances when it starts. My favourite thing is the fact that he waves back to the characters on the screen as they are introduced and wave. James got a bit of it on video - it's usually more enthusiastic (when Finn's not distracted by a camera) but it gives you an idea of the cuteness.
I think that's all for stories, so here are some more pictures. It's been six months since we last did 'family' pictures and it was a nice warm day (for once) so we went out back and tried to take some. Finn was entirely uncooperative!
The pictures consisted mostly of him insisting on wearing his hat and then making funny faces...
Or getting bored and walking away...
Or being just in general fed up and determined to do something more fun somewhere else... but it's awfully hard to storm off in a huff when you need someone's help to do the storming. Especially when that someone responds by making faces right back at you!
So they may not be the best pictures in the world... but at least they are a fairly accurate portrait of Finn and his demanding, wilful ways!
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