Where has the baby gone?

Every day I am amazed with how much our little Peanut has grown, how big he is getting and how able he has become!

The toilet training is coming along nicely, if that is a word can be used to describe the process of trying to encourage a child to use the bathroom, and that is thanks to the daycare centre. Each morning now rather than changing his night nappy for a clean dry nappy, he will pull on a pair of undies (and yes, he puts them on himself) and then it is off to the daycare centre - or on non-daycare days he will plonk himself in the kitchen to wait for some brekkie.

Most days when I pick him up from the centre he will not be in the same clothes that I dropped him off in and there will be a bag of clothes for me to wash BUT it is obvious that there must be more successful trips to the toilet than non AND the days that there is no bag of washing for me are picking up.

It seems to be a bit of process but the girls at the daycare centre are positive about his progress, and I have noticed improvement myself when we are at home. I have heard stories from other mums about how their kids are toilet trained in a week or two, but my response to that is that i have a life and I can not spend two weeks doing nothing other than watching my child's every slightest move and rushing to the toilet every 15 minutes while never leaving the house!!!

But this was not actually going to be a post about Peanut's bodily functions, just more of a general post about how much he is growing - blink and you would miss it!

He defiantly knows what he likes and does not like, and he seems more than willing to tell us. If his cup of milk is not fridge cold he will hand it straight back and tell me that it is "yucky and older".

Last night was his Nana's birthday and we bought a simple butter cake to share as a little bit of a celebration. The cake had glaze cherries mixed through it and on top - I knew that M34tb4LL and Peanut are rather partial to glaze cherries and was pretty sure that Nana likes them as well. The cake went down with everyone (I had a piece without the cherries, not being much of a fan) and Peanut loved the cherries. In fact he got so into the cherries that he picked them out of his piece of cake and handed the dissected cake to M34tb4LL saying he wanted more! M34tb4LL went to the kitchen, got a packet of just cherries and put some on Peanut's plate. Peanut then pushed each of the cherries into his piece of cake only to pick them out again so he could eat them.

When we were finished M34tb4LL took the cake into the kitchen. A few minutes later Peanut wondered off and came back into the room carrying the cake! He handed the plate to M34tb4LL and told him that he wanted more cake - little greedy guts! We of course then had to stop laughing long enough to tell him that we felt that he had enough cake - which was not easy to do!!!

Bedtime is another thing that Peanut is getting very good at telling us whether he is ready for or not, and even if he is willing to get into bed himself - he still tries to stretch things out by wanting us to read him stories, sing songs with him or rub his back as he calls it "circles". However there have only been a few times that we have given up and bundled him into the car to "drive" him to sleep, last night we were close i must admit but we did not have to go there.

So i think we can pretty much say that little self-dressing, self-opinionated, self-aware person is growing up so fast! He really is no longer our baby - time to have another one then...

(: Reggie