Not much by way of photos of Huff this week, but we managed to snag this brief photo of her after her bath.
A couple of new behavioural traits from Puff emerged this week. One was his tendency to say “Not yet, soon” when asked any to do anything he doesn’t want. The other one, which he’s already outgrown, is to take his rubber ducks, and then sit on this inflatable chair while he “hatches” them.
On Friday night we took Puff and Huff out to dinner. At the table there was a little display of Keno cards (the ones for betting) and little pencils, and he had fun drawing lines between the different numbers (at least until we found him something else to colour in). Another challenge – the enormous “kids meal” portion sizes – are you really meant to have the same portion when you’re 2 and when you’re 12?
Saturday was some father-son time, and Dad and Puff headed to Eveleigh markets, and then across Newtown to Sydney Park. For whatever reason, Puff didn’t want to go down the slide, and preferred to climb down the wall instead. He did this a good half-dozen times and had to be coaxed to explore anything else!
Sunday saw us make the trip down to Mittagong for a friend’s baptism. Once the eskies were no longer needed, Puff had a great time playing with the ice.
He also saw his first jack-in-the box. Given his tendency to be stressed by surprises, he coped really well with it.
One other thing that is a regular part of Puff’s week is a trip to some kind of play equipment or other. No matter how engrossed he gets in what he’s doing, though, he still has time to look up and see what his parents are doing.
We’re still struggling to make progress with getting him to feed himself an entire meal. This week saw him make some direct requests to be fed, even when eating easy meals like toast. No number of explanations about what “big kids” should do seem to resonate. Still, next week is another chance to fix it.