Independance Day

I regularly receive e-mail updates from the babycentre website which gives really good guidance about your child's development along with activities to try, recipes to cook etc.etc. This weeks e-mail had a really interesting paragraph about your child's growing Independence and their needs to do things on their own for fulfillment. This could not be truer about Joshua. Within the last week we have really noticed and increased level of Independence. For example of a morning now he is getting up on his own, going to a wee, tipping the potty down the toilet, wiping his potty clean and then washing his hands on his own! Often when he wants a wee or poo now he will tell you to stay where you are and he will do it on his own! So Independence Day comes early........

Today was probably the best day so far this year in terms of weather. One thing that comes with good weather is Ice Cream Vans. Unfortunately Joshua knows the sound all too well and often it is just too much like hard work to say no to him. So today we gave in and it was a round of 99's. Joshua pretty much ate all his ice cream, then looked at mine and sore I still had loads left so he swapped his cone with mine. That seems to have been a common theme today as he also claimed my pannini at lunch, my banana, my cap when we went outside and my juice with dinner!

Anyway here is Josh sitting in the garden tucking into his first ice cream.

He found it quite amusing to dip his nose into the cold ice cream, lovely!

After Brandon's afternoon nap we went over to one of the local parks just to let the boys have a run around and kick some footballs. Here is a picture of Joshua in a climbing frame aeroplane (and yes that is my cap he is wearing!).

Brandon was enjoying kicking a ball around as usual. This is the first time he has had to wear a hat due to the sun and was pretty good at keeping it on.

Joshua on one of the climbing frames.

And it wasn't too long before Brandon built up the confidence to climb the frame.

Brandon's communication skills are going from strength to strength. In fact his Czech language is now about as proficient as mine. You see other than "dobry den" and "pivo" the extent of my Czech language evolves around pointing with the universally recognised finger and making funny grunting noises. Well that is pretty much what Brandon does now whenever he sees something he wants, be it his cloth, dinner, juice, a ride on the bike, a magazine etc.etc.