25 months old
Arthur has just turned 25 months old.
I can’t believe it’s already been a month since his second birthday, that’s absolutely flown by!!
His speech is continuing to improve with what feels like new words appearing every day!!!
A new word that has definitely hugely influenced how he communicates with us is “show” as in ‘show you’. He grabs us by the hand and says “show show”
Our nap battles have been continuing. I can’t bring myself to give up trying. He definitely still needs sleep and will still go to sleep often enough for me to still have some hope!!! The days he doesn’t nap he often crashes out somewhere late on in the day, usually the car!
Tantrums continue, I do feel that as Arthur can comminicate better they are easier to resolve. The days where Arthur doesn’t nap are always worse because he’s tired and grumpy!
This month Arthur has been absolutely loving painting. It’s been pretty much every day this month! We’ve had his lovely little easel outside so mess has (mostly) been contained to out there!
We’ve also seen Arthur really enjoying sorting out colours. I’ve been trying to help him learn his colours with this.
We’ve been making towers
Sorting foam letters into the right colour boxes.
Arthur has also enjoyed taking lids on and off the paintpots and putting them back on the right colour!
Potty training is going well, we’ve still not gone out the house without nappies aside from the odd trip home in the car from the beach! We decided with such big changes coming soon we wouldn’t push our luck!
This month, unbeknownst to Arthur, has included some lasts for us!
The one that got me the most was halfway through Mark’s last day of school, I realised that this would be the last day just me and Arthur at home. I got really sad when I realised this, and I’m ok to admit that I’m all teary writing this now too! Of course, I’m beyond super excited about our little boy bump arriving in our family, but I still worry all the time about how he (okay, I mean we) will cope with our world turning upside down again!!
Since Mark finished work for summer we’ve been having an amazing time, we’ve had loads of time at the beach, at the pool, in the garden and just generally enjoying our time together!!
With one week until we go to Mahe, and just over 2 weeks until little boy bump arrives the next update for Arthur will definitely be an interesting one….it will definitely have been a busy month for him, and us all!
Ah I love this age! Apart from the tantrums of course. We have had a little bit of naptime battle and I found that when I started saying – the rule is, lunch, then nap…they subsided. I agree, they do seem to certainly still need the nap at this age so stick with your instincts mama! Thought you might enjoy reading my post on why this age (the terrible 2s) aren’t really so terrible after all…http://motherhoodtherealdeal.com/2015/07/27/7-reasons-why-the-2s-really-arent-so-terrible/ #twinklytuesday
Sounds like a good rule, what time do you do nap time? I’m going to take a peek at your post now 🙂 xx
So lovely. I keep meaning to do our updates; such lovely key memories to record for later laughs :-). I can’t get over watching my little one say new words; I suppose this happens more frequently as they grow. How intriguing. 🙂
So exciting about baby #2 and I’m sure it’ll work out like it has for tons of years for families around the world. So much to look forward to.
All the best with soaking up those ‘lasts’; even as you look forward to new moments to cherish.
Nice to be back here again, theme pal – had to click on your post when I saw it on #TwinklyTuesday 🙂
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Thanks Hun I love writing these updates and of course looking back on them from time to time, I definitely will love these when he’s older and I hope he will too!!
Xx
Such a lovely age! And he is looking SO Grown up in that first picture! x
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Thanks Katie 🙂
It’s scary how grown up he looks in that picture isn’t it!!! He’s growing so fast!! X
Yep nap battles led to bedtime battles here and the cutting of the nap!
So exciting about baby can’t wait for the update xx
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He’s growing so well. You must be very proud. My girls gave up their nap around that age. Even with the peer pressure of the other nappers at school, they were done. They were required to “read” quietly while their peers slept. I’m quite certain that’s why they were early readers.
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Sadia i love the silver lining attitude to your girls dropping their naps 🙂 xx
Aah he’s so lovely C! Can’t believe it’s only two weeks until your DD- your pregnancy seems like it’s flown by (although it might not to you!) xx
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