What does life hold when viewing it from the perspective of a child? As adults, we can only imagine. It's very hard to go back to that space, after we've grown up and had life experiences which have given us both deep joy and deep grief. Kids see life simplistically. As a parent, it is refreshing to see little people view life this way, when ours seems overly complicated. So what are the things filling my boys' lives at the moment?
Caelan is presently 2years and 4 months. He is getting taller but not much heavier I suspect ( You need to eat to put on weight, right?)
Favourite activities: jumping and wrestling, running, playing with water (even if it's freezing cold), dancing and singing along with the wiggles, singing songs with actions, playing with trucks, cars, buses and trains, looking at the stars, making a cake with mummy.
Favourite food: This is a touchy subject. Caelan eats such a limited variety of food - however, he loves plain crackers and cheese.
Caelan adores other people. Whenever other children or adults are around he goes a little 'wild'. He loves our family and the people in our church. He often recites the lists of people that he loves to see and interact with.
Things I particularly love about Caelan: Although, a bit rough, I think he has a gentle soul. He is sensitive to feelings and gives lots of cuddles and kisses. Caelan is a people person. Easily giving kisses goodnight to people he has never met before, learning their names and asking about them the next day. Caelan has a musical bent - it's delightful to watch him learn songs, dance to just a beat without music and try all sorts of dance moves!
Elisha is 5 months old. He is a smaller boy but happy and healthy. He is only just moving into 00 clothes. At 4 months he was 6.4kg and 63cm long.
Favourite activity: Watching his older brother. Caelan plays 'boo' with him from behind the lounge. This always produces laughter in Elisha.
Favourite toy: at the moment seems to be his fist! He still doesn't hold onto much, but loves shoving his bib into his mouth.
Favourite food: Mummy's breastmilk of course! More to come on that in a month or so!
Things I have observed about Elisha: He doesn't sleep much during the day. Seems he might be a people person as well. Doesn't like to miss out on what is happening. He has 2-3 sleeps during the day. One will most likely be 1.5hrs and the others 45min. He is now sleeping better at night again - goes 8hours on average. He is very smiley and giggles a fair bit.
Best thing for Mummy: Both go to bed about 7pm. So most evenings I have some space to myself and with Adriaan. Yay for that!
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