23 months old!
no more nursing
as of about a week ago, it seems we have officially stopped nursing - egon is a fully weaned child! haha! it had been only morning and evening for a long time, and then just once a day at bedtime for a good few months… and it has been pretty brief lately and felt like totally a comfort thing rather than egon actually getting a significant amount of milk that way. he’s been drinking cows milk with increasing enjoyment for months now during the day. so we starting having arsenio put him to bed every other night once we discovered that he could do so without egon having hysterics, and very quickly egon stopped asking me to nurse on the days when i put him to bed. so it’s over - 22 months of nursing. i can’t say i’m very sad - it feels fitting that he should gain this new independence in the time leading up to his second birthday. and he’s getting mighty big to be lying in my lap! of course my little boy is growing up, and each new milestone brings a twinge of sadness along with excitement, but i feel proud of us for nursing as long as we have done. i’ll never forget the awe i had of the way my body provided nourishment for his for so long - or the feeling of the connection that we shared.
22 months old! egon can read his name!
21 months and 8 days old (we were in england and forgot to take the bear with us!)
egon, on the day he had plums for the first time, took half his nap on the living room floor, wowed us with his watercolours and i made this shirt for him.
20 months old today! :)
approaching 20 months… egon’s favorite things
his choo-choo train
jumping in the pool
his best friend penny
pizza
and posing!
he’s starting to string words together to form small sentences! ”mama, daddy, tracks!” - translated - “come on mummy and daddy, play with my train with me!” he knows what he wants, and he’s beginning to be able to ask for it with words, or refuse to do as we say with other words :)
favorite book right now - ‘the cat in the hat’ - i have to read it every night before bed. i practically know if off by heart (and he probably does too! - he can finish the lines pretty well). mildly obsessed with thomas the tank engine too - books and the tv show.
egon naming letters. totally picked this up at daycare - he knows them all! (and numbers too!)
