Grandad Music comes to stay...July 2010

Photos (belated as usual!) from a recent visit from Grandad Music (a.k.a.Stephs dad) this July. Grandad Music drove all the way from Norfolk in his converted van. When Grandad told Curtis he had a fridge and sink in his van Curtis thought this was a very funny story, then was very excited when he found he wasn't joking after all. During the week we took a trip to Almond Valley Heritage Centre where Curtis, Grandad and Steph did a spot of trampolining which gave Curtis the giggles, and finally at lunch Curtis did his Charlie Chaplin impersonation with the help of a rather large chocolate cornetto. The last photo shows his very own take on bob the builder. I could not stop laughing when Curtis ran in the room like this announcing...'mummy look I'm bob!' Genius work on the nappy toolbelt Curtis.

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July News

Here's our funny boy drenching himself in the garden and having a great ol' time.

It's been a while since we've up-dated so I thought I should let you know how Curtis is doing. As ever, we are constantly amazed at how fast Curtis's language changes and watching and hearing the little differences in his speech. Recently he's been playing around with yesterday, today and tomorrow words in which pretty much anything that has happened recently occured 'last night'. Sometimes just randomly he'll annouce that he is going to do something on Saturday!

He still enjoys playing around with language just for fun. Yesterday morning he said to me 'Good Mornick Mummick', then calling himself Curtick all morning. He will also do a whole nursery rhyme like this such as 'twincick, twincick, little stick, how I wonder what you ick, up above the world so hick, like a diamond in the sick'. Lovely!!

Curtis is still very settled at nursery and life is still so much more settled for him as a walking talking boy than it ever was as an immobile baby. Its an amazing time to have this little person growing up before your eyes. Despite the busyness of our new working lives we are very much happier at the 2.5 year old stage. Curtis is still best buddies with Morven and owen at nursery and has many great frriendships with the staff at kids at nursery. Today Curtis identified his very first letters from the alphabet...he pointed to and announced C for Curtis and M for Morven! Ahhh, sweet :-)

June weekend

On Saturday Curtis wanted to find daddy at work so we headed off to town. We had an event on with balloons and leaflets to give to customers - so siezing the oppurtunity Steph got Curtis to help with a bit of on street marketing. He was amazing standing there with an armful of balloons giving them out to all the passing kids ...going up to them and saying 'you wannnta balloon?'. He was in his wee elf's costume so we got lots of admirers that day...and hopefully some new customers too. Seeing as he'd earned his keep for the day, he was rewarded with a trip to the park. Then at teatime we met daddy and took him out for a meal. Curtis made it through the starter and main course before asking mummy for a cuddle and promptly falling asleep.




On Sunday Curtis and mummy went to St Andrews for the day. Curtis slept for half the journey, then when we arrived he said he'd like to go to a cafe so we found a little place for lunch and got bagels. He was in such good spirits and very cuddly too. On days like this you get to see how grown up he is....he's not a baby anymore, he picks and chooses what we can do and we have full conversations all day, plus lots of jokes....it's easy to forgot on days like this that he's only 2.5 yrs old. Such fun. Afterwards we decided to visit the castle and later the beach.

There was a re-enactment going on with lots of people in costume and a very loud gunfire every few minutes...it made us jump. Curtis coped pretty well at the 'loud castle' and earnt a trip down to the beach for being so brave.

ON the beach we found some brilliant big sandcastles that someone had built. We spent over an hour filling the moats with water and getting soaked and covered in sand. The sun was still hot at 6pm but we figured it was time to get some food so we nipped back into the town and found a lovely restaurant with outside tables. It was one of my favourite days with my wee man in ages, it was just perfect sitting with him eating our tea in the sun - we even ordered non-alcoholic cocktails. Curtis was being funny the whole time and ate so much food I thought he'd pop.

We got home about 8.30pm in time to tell daddy all about our adventures and show him Curtis's new knights hat.

Lovely Sunny Holiday...

At last, after the busy year we've had since we moved, we finally got to go on a lovely sunny holiday in Portugal....here are a few quick pics to show you what a great time we had. Special thanks to Nanna and Taid for looking after us all when we were there. xx

Some of my favourites things, aged 2 yrs and 3 months

1. Talking, almost non-stop about anything
2. Nursery Rhymes and music - loving Grand old duke of York just now
3. Peppa Pig is still a top favourite for DVDs
4. Milk - I still almost cry with excitment at getting bedtime milk.
5. My best friends Morven and Owen at Nursery. Morven and Curtis hit it off instantly when they met and have been known as Bonnie and Clyde at Nursery ever since. They have very similar sense of fun and humour. Owen is Curtis's other wee best buddy, they can happily spend the days together, chatting, running, playing and laughing. Owen is the happiest wee fella, forever smiling.
6. Hiding, running, deliberately falling over and laughing (usually in that order)
7. Insisting that other people hide, run, deliberately fall over and laugh with me (as any visitor to our house will know)
8. Pretending to be an elf, a pirate, cowboy, bob the builder, characters from Finding Nemo etc. Curtis involes everyone around him in acting out various nursery ryhmes and stories. This week Curtis is Nemo, Steph is Doree and Gareth is Nemo's daddy. We swim, rescue eachother and meet all sorts of other underwater creatures.
9. Reading books and making up my own stories
10. Fruit, fruit and more fruit - mango hedgehogs are this weeks favourite.
11. Going to nursery - if we ask Curtis what he wants to do in the morning he usually says 'nursery to see morven and owen'.....just the way you want it to be.
12. Watching himself on video - see previous video blog!

Things I dont like
1. All shops and shopping centres most of the time
2. Many foods.
3. 'I don't like a nappy change mummy'.
4. Wearing shirts
5. 'Don't like go to bed mummy' 'I'm not sleepy (yawn), I'm not sleepy!!!'