Tandem Trike

Both the boys were weighed on Friday and have made healthy weight gains. Joshua put on over 2 lb and weighed in at 26lb whilst Brandon has gained almost 1lb weighing in at 15lb 9oz now. Speaking of Brandon - check out how fluffy and spiky his hair is looking these days - how cool!

Joshua can now amazingly recognise size, shapes and colours of cars. When ever we are out and about you can always say to him "where is our car" and he responds with "I see". Despite changing the Fiesta last week Joshua has already learnt the new colour and now any Fiesta he sees in tango red colour is "Daddy's car". Even more impressive though is that he recognises the shape of a Ka as Michael's Ka and since all Peugeot's seem to look the same he recognises them as Nanny's car.

Joshua's development is absolutely amazing and you can pretty much talk to him in sentences and he understands exactly what you are saying. His vocabulary expands daily and we are already at the stage where we have to spell out certain words so that he doesn't understand what we are talking about. Incredible when you think he isn't even two yet!

Joshua getting to grips with a PC and mouse. He was fascinated with the google search on Scooby Doo and Fireman Sam!


Both the boys are still keeping up their weekly swimming sessions. Brandon loves having a splash and kick around. He also likes finding his feet in the small baby pool. Joshua just does his own thing when we go swimming now. He jumps into the big pool on his own, swims around on his own, climbs out on his own, runs in and out of the showers, throws toys from the baby pool to the big pool etc.etc.etc. It is really great to watch him enjoying himself and other swimmers seem fascinated by his keenness to keep climbing out of the pool and jumping back in unassisted (often as a belly flop!!!). On Tuesday some woman saw Joshua jump in the pool and went dashing over in life saver mode thinking he was in trouble and that he was unattended. She didn't realise that he was fine on his own and does it all the time. She was shocked afterwards at how confident he was in the water at such a young age.

Also today we registered Brandon for the nursery which Joshua goes too. The plan is for Brandon to start around Dec/Jan time. The nursery had an open day today so we took Joshua down there to show his little brother around his "hood".

What a cool tandem trike for toddlers. Joshua will be able to keep a close eye on his little bro at nursery with these wheels.