Crawler Lane

Here is a little brain teaser for you............. Joshua has recently just turned 2 years old and Brandon is rapidly approaching 1. There is just under a year and half between the boys in terms of age (well 15 months to be exact). Yet Joshua is about to have his 3rd Xmas and Brandon has yet to have his 1st - just doesn't seem right does it????? Speaking of Xmas it has just started to dawn on us just how expensive Xmas is going to be from now on having two little ones to buy for (and from).

Brandon has now moved into the crawler lane. He isn't quite darting around here there and everywhere, but he does get up into a crawling position and shuffles around a bit. Also it looks like the little guy now has tooth number 7 coming through (touch wood we have not had so much grief with this tooth as we had with the previous 6). Anyway it has been a while since I posted some video clips on the blog - so here are some of Brandon's first crawling.

So as Brandon moves into a new phase in his mobility, Joshua is also embarking upon another major development - potty training. He is doing extremely well with his use of the toilet and potty and is now building quite a collection of reward stickers. The nursery have also started letting him use the toilet and were very impressed that he flushes and washes his hands without any help or prompting. This week we are changing him over to pull-up nappies in a bit of a drive to try and get him dry through the daytime.

So by Early 2010 we could see some light at the end of the tunnel in terms of 1) No more sterilising once Brandon is one year old, 2) No more formula milk and switch Brandon to full fat milk (the down side of this is that I will have to start buying full fat milk for Brandon and semi-skimmed milk for Joshua), 3) No more rear facing car seats as Brandon transitions to front facing and finally 4) Hopefully no more nappies for Joshua (except for nighttimes). I don't like wishing my life away but the above 4 actions will make life so much easier for us (and cheaper!).