I don't know if it's a new craze going round nursery or not, but at the moment, 'uh-oh' is heard a lot in our house.
Something happens to the television picture = 'uh-oh'
Something gets knocked over = 'uh-oh'
Something is deliberatly done just so the little man can say = 'uh-oh'!!!
He loves it! And it's not just him. His friend Trudy is saying it as well and they're at nursery together.
It's cute though.
And his gestures are so funny. If we say 'where is something?' He holds his hands up, as though he's shrugging, and he'll purse his mouth in an 'oh' shape, as though he's thinking really hard about where something might be. He's quite the dramatist at the moment with it all. Maybe he'll be on the stage before too long. He loves the attention he gets from it, and the fact he can make us all laugh.
Also, rather than developing his words like normal babies, he's developing his gestures. So rather than saying 'more' like others we know, he holds his hand out, and makes a grasping gesture to mean more. I wonder whether we shouldn't just let him have more, and make him try to ask for it. The trouble is, we know exactly what he means and we give it to him.
His walking is really good now. But try to take him for a walk and he howls, cries to be picked up, and drags his feet and sits down in a strop. Show him a park or somewhere he can run around and he'll run around for ages. Steve took him to a field with a football and he was playing and running for about 90 minutes!! That's like a whole football match! But just regular walking is a bit difficult at the moment, despite us trying to encourage him. I guess he still counts as being young for walks like that at the moment, but I do worry we're setting ourselves up for a stroppy walking child later on. We'll see!
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