The hairiest baby in town

Linus is being rather lovely at the moment. Which is nice- it makes us all like him more and want to give him chocolate. Not that we use chocolate to bribe him constantly or anything like that, oh no. Our big news is really that Big Boy Baby Linus is now Big Boy Pants-wearing Baby Linus! Hurrah! Despite a good start on the weeing in the toilet front things did go downhill for a while, and the sofa has suffered the most from it, however the stickers and chocolate bribes we use are doing the trick and we've had NO accidents all of this week. Being the charming little boy he is, Linus's favourite activity now is doing a pooh on the toilet. I have to sit with him and we usually have a conversation that goes something like this:

L: POO!!!

Me: Yes, that's lovely

L: a BIG one

Me: oh jolly good

L: PLASH!!! More! 2 poohs!

This carries on on indefinitely until he decides he is bored of doing a pooh and wants to wipe his bottom with the "pig wipes". Yes.

Linus is also getting very good at imaginative play. He is absolutely hilarious playing with his baby Annie (named by Linus). Annie mostly cries and has to have a dummy and a kiss and cuddle. We also have 2 toy pikachus, a big soft one that is the mummy, and a small plastic keyring one that is the baby. Linus sat for ages playing with them the other day while I made dinner and I could hear him pretending that the baby was crying and having to have a kiss and some lip balm (?) from the mummy. He then got his tea set out and when I went in he had them sat on the sofa together and was feeding them tea out of a cup! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh He isn't just a vicious thug after all :)

Strangely, for a very non-huggy baby the crying scenario in his games is the most common. Daddy and I also have to play when pikachu and Annie aren't around. This morning lying in bed he told me I had to cry, which I did and he gave me a big kiss and demanded I cry some more at which point I was allowed a hug. Quite liking my hug I decided to carry on crying, when he turned round and put his hand over my mouth! Silly baby, we all know gaffer tape is best.

This picture is Linus's totally mad hair when he was on the bouncy castle at Grandma and Grandpa's house. It really isn't very fair, I never had a bouncy castle of my own! though, I may have had mad hair.