30 months old

As of yesterday, Finn is now 30 months old (I know! A blog post on time! shocking)
Here are his pictures side by side:

29 months old

30 months old

He is now 86.5 cm tall and seems normal to me, even though I often have strangers telling me how 'tiny' he is.  Including one recent woman who said

 "Wow, he's really good at talking isn't he? Really advanced. How old is he?"
 "Two and a half"
 "WHAT?! He's TINY! I thought he was about 18 months or something. He's so small!  Was he a preemie or something?  Wow."
Thanks random woman, thanks.

But anyway! As I said, he seems a bit short and bald but not that far off normal. He's in the right size clothing... whatever random strangers - he's just fine.

I can't think of many interesting exciting things to cherish about Finn this month.  Only one - that he has taken (out of nowhere, literally we have no context for why he says this) to calling one particular cup of his the "chatter chatter cup"  Not a clue why.  When we ask him if he wants some water he says "yes, in the chatter chatter cup."  Strange.  It looks like this:

the blue one...

Very bizarre.
So to make up for a lack of interesting things to talk about, here is a video of Finn dancing while he eats some banana (and I write out a shopping list):

So what sort of things did we get up to in March, I hear you ask!  Well! Here come a whole bunch of pictures.
The weather has been FANTASTIC so we went to parks.  A LOT.

check out that hair!!

I wasn't feeling very well, so I was resting on the bench while James and Finn played - and then Finn came up to join me for a quick cuddle.  Then was back to playing :)

This is another park - it has a great big car to play on. Finn LOVES it, obviously.

We also went to a very cool place called the Discover Centre which Finn really enjoyed - lots of stuff just for kids to explore and be creative...

AND they have a big outdoor bit with a car ("Not a car, Mama - a TAXI")

And the wheel just kept breaking! But don't worry, Finn could fix it...

And James took him to the Southbank to roam around for a bit on a day when I had a doctor's appointment and really preferred to go on my own!

But we didn't just go to parks on our own - we joined our friends.

Including Lily.  I tried to get the two of them to sit on the bench and smile for me but they have so much fun together it was impossible.  Here are some of the attempts:

We also went to another park with 'baby Emin' as he's called by Finn.  We went into the greenhouse though because it was actually a little bit chilly that day...

Finn was playing a strange version of peekaboo here... but it mostly consisted of him putting my scarf on his head and saying "where's Finn" repeatedly, without any peeking or booing... I think Emin was a bit baffled.

And of course we had to visit with Finn's other great friend Lily.  This time it was at an art workshop that James got to take part in while I entertained Finn and Lily.  The idea was that we ALL take part in it and do some art but the two of them just wanted to run around playing. And somehow I drew the short straw. I still don't quite know how that happened...

I think this picture is pretty funny! The look on both of their faces is priceless. 

It was in the basement of a coffee shop though, so after it finished it was James' turn to look after them while I relaxed with a super spicy hot chocolate with chilli and they had some cups of milk.

We did do some indoor stuff in the house as well.  Like playing music...

Including Finn's new favourite musical game.  First you put together the puzzle with all the farm animals on it. Then he and James get their guitars and the march around the puzzle singing Old MacDonald using the animals they see as inspiration.  I should point out that this entire thing was Finn's idea.  The first time he was trying to show James what to do I was dying of laughter.  But it's great fun in the end, so I think he's come up with a winner!

(I especially love that he corrects James' pig noise... hehehe)

And of course we've done plenty of reading.  Here is Finn reading aloud from his Peppa Pig book.  It sounds oddly like the Wheels on the Bus... but clearly it can't be because he's following along the words with his finger :)
He does get the 'scrub, scrub, scrub' bit right though - clearly we've read this book a lot!

And on that note, I will leave you until next time!