This week has seen a trip to Canberra (and back), a lunch with a friend, and Puff change (and hopefully reform) his sleeping habits: a couple of pre-8am wakeups have been less than welcome.
Puff continues to be fascinated with books: when he sees his current favourite (five little ducks), he will say “kwa kwa” to encourage whoever is carrying him to pick it up and read it to him. Depending on his mood, he will say “kwa kwa kwa” at the right part in the story, or just look forward to getting to the end.
Dad has been out a bit in the last week, and so Aunty Chan has had a chance to feed him dinner, which he seems to be really enjoying. Dinnertime can be a long slog (it takes about half an hour for him to eat everything), and so there are a few chances for distraction during the meal. In general, though, he’s a really well-behaved boy once in the “eating chair”.
Despite some minor mishap in getting ready to travel down to Canberra, things went smoothly for the most part. A three hour drive proved too long for his attention span, and he didn’t sleep as much as we’d hoped, but it was well worth it to spend time with old friends.
Watching him play in a house with a nearly-three-year-old was eye-opening. Unlike babies of a similar age, where they happily crawl over each other, there was a distinct difference between the age appropriate toys (our friends had a stash of them) and the toys for the older J.
J was very generous in sharing his toys: when Puff sat on the train tracks in the fashion of Godzilla, he wasn’t even upset (After this photo, Dad quickly picked Puff up again and re-arranged the tracks as they had been).
It’s something of a cliche that kids would rather play with the box than the toys that come in the box, but we saw some truth in it. Here is Puff sitting on J’s little couch, playing with the box that the wooden rings came in.
Update:
I should also point out that Puff has worked out how to make a clicking noise with his tongue (ask him what noise a horse makes when walking, or just make the noise, and he’ll copy), and he knows what a snake says (“ssssss” with a big grin), and (with less certainty) what a sheep says ( “babababa”).