Happy Birthday Trent and Jason!

Happy birthday to my little brother, who is priviledged to share the day with his nephew!!

And happy birthday to my gorgeous boy!!! The day started off wonderfully with him actually sleeping right through the night, and coming down to me, singing ‘Mummy, mummy’ down the hallway at 7.05am this morning. Jumped into my bed for some cuddles and good morning moochies before a few choruses of Happy Birthday and counting 2 on his fingers!

He had his 2yo assessment this morning, all went well, he showed off his skills with lots of kicking and throwing and catching before the calmer tasks of identifying items and building towers with blocks and picking up 100’s and 1000’s and putting them into a cup! His speech is fine, can use a handful of little sentences and speaks lots of words quite clearly. I have noticed he’s not as vocal as some of his little friends, but he sure makes up for it with his motor skills! I was dying for measurements. I know comparing him to his little friends, that he is sooo much smaller than them….I mean, he still fits into size 0 clothes!

Height: 85.5cm
HC: 47.6
Weight: 11.15kg

A fair decrease on his growth chart, particuarly for his weight. I was actually surprised, I thought he was closer to the 12kg mark than that. But we are not worried, he has a very healthy appetite, he’s just a very ‘busy’ little man and burns everything off!!! We don’t eat much junk food and he eats mostly fruit and veg and healthy snacks anyway. My brothers and I were all small babies, and Matthew’s whole family is slim so I guess he’s keeping in line with the family

She’s happy he’s showing signs of wanting to use the toilet. He tells us when he’s about to do wees and poos, (and did while we were there!) and will do wee on the potty after a bath, and often runs for it during the day. She said if he really starts wanting to use it all the time to encourage it, but otherwise to wait until this summer before making any real inroads with it.

And we discovered 1 eye tooth has just cut and 2 others are sitting just under it so should cut any day, the fourth is no where near ready so that was a nice little surprise…and may also explain the sleepless nights, although he’s no where near as whingy as what he was when he cut his pre-molars. We went through all the behavioural things and when she asked about tantrums I said they were well and truly happening. She commented how placid he still is…but when we were leaving he threw a ripper tanty when I wouldn’t let him take a ball home with us

We popped around to Nan’s to say hi and get his pressie off her. A toy vaccum cleaner which he loves and busily got to vacuuming her floors! Last night he opened the presents from his godparents…some dinosaur figurines, a Mega sketcher/doodle thing and some maracca’s and tambourine. He also got a 3 wheel trike (a real big boy bike), with the ‘Cars’ movie theme from Matt’s sister and her partner. We got him Bob the Builder jarmies, a polo top, some Wiggles socks and a Bob the builder workbench. His uncle Brett called in to give him his new gum boots!

We got home for some lunch and a sleep for him, so I could clean the house and wrap his presents and finish off his cake before his granny and grandpa come over for dinner! From them he got a cool soccer goal and net, you can imagine all the running around, kicking and yelling ‘goal’ that went on last night!! We had a yummy dinner and a few drinks and he fell asleep just after 10pm all tuckered out!

We have a combined birthday party for him and FIL in 2 weeks with Matt’s extended family so more fun yet to come then, and another cake to be made!!!

Thanks to all my scrapping friends for his birthday wishes, Selena & family, Nerida & family, and his little buddies Luke, Isaac and Caleb for your emails and e-cards! He had a wonderful day!!!