Out of order?

It's 8:40 and he is still sleeping! :-o I am pretty sure he's gonna be ill :-( Not to mention this totally ruins our day plan...Otherwise, it is awesome! He hasn't slept this long since June when we came back from Czech and went to sleep at 2am.

Simple day

The other day I was reading about Simplicity Parenting (no, I didn't keep the link) and that is something I want to read more about, seems very interesting...Anyway, there was a thought that children can be bored, so they would find something to do on their own, it is not parents' job to constantly entertain them.

Today was a great day to give it a try, raining, feeling sick, so I sat on the floor (sitting in front of my pc wouldn't work) and watched him go. He could spend 15 minutes just sitting (jumping) on my lap investigating a beer lid...he would spend a lot of time just walking around, spinning, climbing the coffee table, torturing the dog...It was kinda fun.

Craving routine

You read it everywhere, children love routines. And you know it is true and you keep the days more or less the same. Then, one day, you (you + your tot) have a cold, it's a depressing rainy September day, so you decide to stay in because the dog wouldn't want to walk in this weather anyway and you want to keep your son warm and dry. The more the afternoon shifts to the evening, the more anxious your child gets, he takes more trips to the front door and he starts saying "brm brm" more often (his word for everything with wheels, in this case for his motorbike). Suddenly it hits you. He needs his afternoon trip outside. So you start getting him dressed, you can see in his eyes the contentedness that he was understood and there is no change in his day-rhythm.

For some reason he didn't want to ride on his motorbike, we carried the motorbike all the way, but he seemed happy, at the end he requested going to the playground where he got all wet and sandy. So much for keeping him warm and dry. Even if it is not raining, the child still needs to wear his water-proof clothes.

My point is that he seems to love the routine and he doesn't like it to be disturbed. He seems fine with different routines when we are out of home, but he wants the days to be the same when we have nowhere to be.

First colouring tries

Pretty good for a 16-month old, no?

In the last few days I spent enormous amount of time on researching new toys for him and it hit me only now - he loves drawing and he can spend dozens of minutes on it, he enjoys colouring, drawing his own stuff, so that is something I should be focused on, not on buying him new stuff. 

Perpetuum mobile

I am impressed. He woke up at 5:37 with sh-sh and fell asleep at 19:00, no naptime today. Wow. I'm dead because he clearly missed the nap.

The two-piece puzzle

In a previous post I mentioned he loves two-piece puzzles by Galt, so today I took some pictures of it.

The car is always the first, and often the last puzzle he puts together.

Winning dance.

Train.

All puzzles together. (I put them together, he has no interest to put together more than at a time)

A bit of sand and water

Pure fun for the toddler. Then he slid on the slide several times. I am a cool mum because I let him.

Constant talker. For some reason he is signing a goat a lot lately.