Words of the Week:

Same as ours

One more time

He loves using these little sentences, it's amazing how many different situations he can apply them to!

We watched playschool today whilst eating ham sandwiches. They happened to also be making ham and avocado sandwiches on the show. Toby came running in to the kitchen shouting, Mummy! Sandwiches, same as ours! He was so excited. And after he finished his plate full, he said - Mummy, one more time? And he ate another plate full.




We had a coffee this morning at the Auction Rooms. Toby spotted a fire engine parked across the road, so we stood in the doorway and waved at it together. They turned their flashing lights on especially for him and waved too. We went back inside after a couple of minutes, as it was raining so hard. And then, to Toby's absolute amazement, one of the fire men walked inside the cafe in his uniform, with a set of special stickers just for him. It was so exciting, and Toby immediately stuck the stickers all over himself, and has worn them ever since.
Later in the car on the way home, Toby said, Mummy, see fireman one more time?
He was so proud of his stickers.

Toby's First Concert

(Warming up for the concert, by playing Superhero. Which involves running around holding his arms out behind him, shouting Superhero! and then falling over)

Ti-Ti had his first music performance in front of an audience on Sunday. I wasn't sure if he would actually do the little routine we have been practising for the last month or so, or even if he would sit with me on the stage, but I needn't have worried. He did his best ever performance and seemed to love the stage, shaking his maracas


and stopping when the music did (they have to rest their maracas on their shoulders, and he did it perfectly, I was so proud!)


hiding and singing his peekaboo song

and waving ribbons


He really loved performing. At the end, he threw his arms in the air in celebration of himself, shouting in delight. After, we watched the older children doing their routines, and Toby was trying to copy them, excitedly. And his excitement was infectious. It was such a fun morning.

A rainy day

He was so excited about the parcel that arrived for us today from Gra-Gra. It brightened up a bit of a dull day. We unwrapped special handmade Christmas decorations, and a shirt for Toby.


He wanted to wear the shirt straight away. He is obsessed with wearing things that have buttons, and spends ages trying to do the buttons up himself. It drives him insane, and he often ends up having a bit of a tantrum over it...

So he wore the shirt , and then we went to get his hair cut.


And then came home and painted. It has been a really grey, dark and rainy day. Toby must have picked up on the mood of the day, as he only wanted to paint in black.

Doing stuff

Words of the week:

Tomorrow

Another time

It's getting hard work these days keeping Toby entertained, he just likes to be doing stuff all day long. It's kind of sad that these are the new words he says time and time again, and he even anticipates when I'm about to say them to him.
Mummy, make Playdough? (I pause, thinking of an excuse why we can't...) and then he'll say, Tomorrow? And it all works out fine, he doesn't get upset, I just feel guilty that tomorrow seems to be my excuse all the time...


But we had a busy week doing stuff this week. Making chocolate cake together, he calls it Masterchef. And of course licking the bowl out afterwards, such joy!



Making cars from playdough. This has to be one of his favourite things to do a the moment. He concentrates for ages, picking them apart as soon as I have made them and exclaiming, Oh no! Crash! Cars broken! and then making me make them all over again...

Drawing faces. I drew the circles and the hair, and Toby did all of the features all by himself, I was impressed!

Busy days, but such fun.