“Does it look like I am sucking my thumb!”

There is no doubt that Brandon is the Cheeky Monkey of the two boys, however Joshua came out with a very cheeky remark recently. More often than not when Joshua gets tired he will start to suck his thumb. Anyway at the weekend we were driving home from Lakeside and he was looking and acting really tired and Tina remarked that both boys look tired. Without thinking Joshua immediately responded with “Does it look like I am sucking my thumb!”. Attitude!

Its no wonder the boys were tired as they had spent a lot of the weekend at football clubs and swimming. Joshua has recently managed to swim 3 whole lengths of a 25m pool without any help. Brandon often spends most of his time in the baby pool still because he does not like getting cold and the baby pool is always much warmer. I am still looking out for one of those float belts type devices as he got on really well with that during our recent Disney holiday.

Whilst talking about monkeys, Brandon has been taking lessons off of Joshua on how to climb like a monkey. At the weekend both of them managed to climb up on the roof of their play house and at one point were standing on top. Its only a matter of time before one of them falls or the roof of the house caves in. Unfortunately I can’t really say much given that I was probably just as bad (if not worse) at their age by climbing on the top of the 6ft wooden play house that Dad had built us in the back garden.

The little monkey climbing the roof of the play house.

Then there was two little monkeys! Anyone know the max. weight limit for a plastic play house roof?

Both boys are getting on very well with the letter recognition and the phonic sounds. I try and take every opportunity to incorporate some learning in everything we do and everywhere we go. Even a simple trip to the Wick Park can include some fun learning time. Last week me and the boys were using our feet to write their names in the wood bark on the floor. Then randomly picking letters which the boys then had to race too and see who got the correct letter first. 

Brandon finding the "h" in Joshua.

Brandon has a much longer name than Joshua which took up a bit more floor space and was difficult to capture in a picture.

Brandon successfully finding the "r" in his name.

Finally, tomorrow is the big day when we find out if Joshua has been allocated his number 1 choice for infant school. Fingers crossed for that one.