Big weekend!

We've been playing with animal puzzles (you know, one piece per animal) every toilet break for a good two months now. He knows all 18 of the animals (please may Mommy have the guinea pig. Thank you. please may Mommy have the turtle. Thank you. Please may mommy have the parrot...) and Mommy is Quite Bored with them. They were only $3 so we hit up Wally World on Saturday afternoon for two new ones; one is fruit, the other vehicles. He got to play with the fruit one a little before bath and bed, and was frantically asking "Whatis this? Whatis this?" and learning all of the fruits. He fell asleep easily enough, but come 4am his head was spinning.

After half an hour of tossing and turning, still with dry nappy, I asked "Do you need to wee?" He got up, climbed off the bed, and headed for the coffee table. I redirected him and the nighttime policy is no toys on the toilet, but he was quite upset so I gave in, he made a big wee, and we went back to bed... bringing the fruit with us. The rule was the fruit had to stay in his bed, and after an hour of tossing and turning, interrupted with playing with his fruit in the dark (erm, that sounds a bit racy), he finally fell asleep with his head on me, his feet in his bed, and holding onto the puzzle board. He woke up just before 9am, though, which was mighty accommodating of him.

After a long, leisurly and rather delicious breakfast of pancakes and eggs, we headed out to pick up Elizabeth and Yulia and head for the state fair. It was nap time by the time we got to the fair, but the wee ones spurred each other on and had a great time riding the carousel ("eeee-hehehehe"), Liza and Yulia rode the mini rollercoaster and then we headed for the livestock barns, taking in the moos, baas (goats, not sheep), and the la la las (those would be pigs to those who aren't familiar with Sandra Boynton). Then the mules, rabbits, chickens, pigeons, ducks, more goats, more cows, some bona fide horses and rather wearily, headed for home after 3pm. Johnny managed to stay awake right up to bath time and was surprisingly pleasant, and fell asleep just before 7pm, which I suppose is an hour earlier than he has been lately.

First 100% clean-and-dry day

He wore the same pair of undies all day long and they were dry at the end of the day. What a clever boy! We potty trained for 4 months to get to this point, completely baby-led and painless, starting at 14 months.

Still monster molars

We have had Sheer Bloody Hell this past month with monster molars (top two) and one more incisor at the bottom, bringing the tooth count up to nine. They've all popped, and the two molars at the bottom should follow in the next month or so (still mad chewing going on), and then I sense that we're going to turn a corner with the sleeping.

He is running, jumping, two-word sentencing, tentatively telegraphic sentencing, clipping clips, sorting shapes, building towers, blah blah so surely by now there must be some respite in all this development that has plagued him so badly since 5 and a half months old!

We've been averaging two night time nappies lately, often just the one, usually waking up dry after several hours, and last night we had a trouble-free, dry-nappy 3:45am wee wee (by request). It's the first glimmer of dry nights in our future, and since wet nappies are what wakes him up often, that should help him get more hours of sleep in one chunk.