We are finally back in Estonia. I love to observe how much he has grown up in the last few weeks, he plays with his toys a bit differently, more maturely, he can e.g. keep his train on the track, he can throw almost all shapes in the shape sorter, he can finally put a lego block on a lego base (now he knows he has to push the block in, before he would just put it on) and he walks so much better and further. Aww, my baby is growing up, exciting and a bit scary, can't imagine him being a kindergarten-er. 

But it is still more fun to drive off-railroad :)

The thing for carrying huge stuff is still on :-) Picture from the Prague Airport.

Bath-hater???

Another super-annoying thing happened 3 days ago, he started screaming in the bath, so since he is not getting a bath because he is super-scared of it. WTF? How? He was such a bath-lover? What happened? What to do? He can't go without a bath forever...

Out of order

Even though I did try, we are totally off our daily routine, it felt impossible to keep our rhythm in a family with another one and in another time zone (even one hour counts!)

Teodor didn't want to eat for the first week and something, maybe different cooking, maybe different high chair, maybe the buzz around (in contrast with our very quiet household), maybe it was just the change or me being too pushy, who knows? It got better, though, I gave up and he is partly on baby food jars as he was starting to lose weight.

Unlike with the food, his sleep got even worse than it was before. The first night he would wake up every hour, the next night too, then it got a bit better, now he sleeps more or less like at home, so that's not the problem, making him sleep got totally out of hands. I kinda blame my mum's obsession to stroll around with him. She started making him sleep in the stroller, so now I am unable to make him sleep just in bed as it was before. And it takes ages, sometimes he even doesn't fall asleep (the stroller does not work 100%), so I have a 14-month old who sometimes doesn't get a daynap, it's quite a cut from two naps per day. Not to mention how whiny he gets without his naps. Or maybe it is tooth no.2 on the way? Whatever it is, I can't wait for it to be over. I can't wait to go back to Tallinn and get back on tracks with our routines.

Goodbye to his first real shoes

I sold his Livie and Luca Fox Grey shoes today. I am a bit sad about it because maybe I should have put them in his memory box marked as"shoes you did not like to wear".

I decided not to buy Livie and Luca shoes any more, I was so not happy with the quality, a few weeks ago I even noticed that the inner stiches were finished with a little bump, which felt a bit itchy. The stiching and gluing was generally not very good. Not to mention they were too wide for Teodor. Otherwise I was very happy with their barefoot side and how easy it was to put them on.

And these are the replacement shoes to be ordered: Bulgarian well-praised brand Zeazoo.

Simple countryside life

When I see him how much he enjoys simple countryside fun, I'm getting seriously annoyed by the fact we still do not have a house and there is actually quite a little chance to get it any time soon as I do not plan to go back to work next year, which will cut our income into half and we want to start our own business, which is another black hole for money (hopefully we'll manage to earn it back)

I sometimes try to make up some sophisticated fun for him like  riding his motorbike, which included a serious talk about the necessity of wearing a helmet (Teodor still thinks it is one of the most annoying things in his life).

And this is what he considered as a fun...

Mother, take off my helmet because...

I need to go chase chickens.

I tried to persuade him that the motorbike is fun one more time, I thought the smooth surface would make him go...

I was wrong, again. First we were watching a dog, then a man building a fence and then he finally found the entertainment he was longing for - throwing stones into a creek - made him busy for cca 20 minutes. 

It seems to be so easy to make him busy when the weather is fine...It is not like we couldn't do these in the city, but it is so much more complicated, you have to bring everything out (and back, nothing can stay outside unattended for more than a couple of minutes) and you have a feeling you are under your neighbour's watch.

practising in real life the skill gained from his Melissa and Doug Latches Board

Watching sheep with grandma.

Walking home from sheep-watching. He got this col car from my uncle. He is not a fan of riding on anything outside, otherwise he loves this car.

Helping grandma to put cherries on the cake.

Playing with water, pity it was hot only at the beginning of our stay.

The problem arises when the weather gets rainy, for some reason I expected it to be really hot, so I didn't bring our bad weather clothes. It is a bit boring at his grandparents' house, my mum is always trying to make him play with his cars, which was fun at the beginning, but now he starts to agree with me that it is kinda boring, but my mum doesn't seem to be willing to offer him any other kind of fun ("boys play with cars"). We are spending most of the time in the village - it would be wonderful if I had friends here and if they had children (ideally older and willing to play with Teodor)...but I don't, so I am not having as much fun as Teodor has here. 

The best fun ever

Chasing chickens, ducks or any other birds...