Toby is now 13 months old, and somehow that fact hadn’t registered with me until today. I am going to try to keep his monthly updates going during his second year. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to keep to his updates going regularly towards the end of his first year. That was partly due to lack of time while moving interstate, and partly because I rarely spend time on a normal computer these days, and the WordPress app for the iPad was regularly broken towards the end of last year and also the start of this year.
Anyway, on to Toby. He has become a really confident walker in the last month. He is quite speedy as well, though obviously not yet able to keep up with Nathan, which is what he really wants to do. We do laugh at how he turns around, though…he pivots on one foot. Toby is a real little climber too, though he is still unable to get up onto a bed or couch without a step or a heave from behind by Nathan.
Toby is really helpful around the house now. He is more than happy to help unload the dishwasher and put things away, put things in the rubbish bin, take things to Daddy or Nathan, and do other miscellaneous things that we ask of him. He also loves doing things we tell him not to, like not moving dirt out of the garden, not picking things out of the garden, etc.
Toby also now has a real sense of wanting what Nathan has (Nathan got some sultanas to eat, where are mine?) and although he doesn’t have many words yet, he is still very adept at letting us know what he wants.
We have packed up the baby hammock and have made a bed for Toby on the floor of our bedroom out of our cot mattress, blankets and pillows. He just wasn’t happy in the hammock any more.
Things Toby loves doing are: eating chalk and crayons, drawing, playing with kitchen utensils, climbing, jumping practice, running after Nathan, cuddling and kissing and climbing all over Nathan, watching ants and spiders, playing with animal figurines, relocating things, putting things in boxes and pulling things out of boxes, eating fruit but in particular watermelon and cantaloupe and blue berries, playing in dirt, and just generally being involved in what everyone else is doing.
