We’re now just two days away from Puff’s second birthday. The grandragon has been staying with us for some of this week, which has been good for both of them. As such, there have been a few different family gatherings for Puff to go to: this led to a pretty tiring time for him, where he fell asleep in his eating chair in a crowded room!
Earlier in the week we saw him trying to figure out how to use a “bubbler”. He was fascinated to see that he could push a button and have water come out, but didn’t manage to get the coordination quite right: he would stop pressing the button when he went to drink, and so the water would stop.
He found it so distracting that it was a while before we could coax him away from it. In fact, he’s been having a tougher time when trying to deal with being told he can’t do something. We’re seeing more tears, and more of a tendency towards tantrum-throwing, no matter how patiently or consistently we explain things to him.
On election day, we introduced Puff to an important Australian tradition – the election sausage sizzle.
He’s already memorised a lot of his books: here’s some rare footage of him reading the end of a book to himself.
One other event of note from this week was his attempts at jumping into the ball pit. He has almost figured out jumping: in this case it’s more of a stepping out rather than a jump up.