Weight and sizes : Henry now weighs 2 stone, 5 pounds. He's around 95cm tall, although that's increasingly hard to measure these days since he's never actually still for long enough to check! His feet are a size 8 and he mainly wears age 2-3 clothes still, although he's moving in to some 3-4 things now too.
Routine: We haven't got a strict routine as such since I've been on maternity leave for the last few months, but generally Henry will wake around 7ish and he goes to bed around 8. The lovely thing about him is how flexible he is with napping. Some days he has no nap if we're busy or if we want him to be in bed early that night, other days he has a short car nap and then other days he'll have two or three hours sleep in bed at home. I absolutely love our afternoon sleeps together and I'm not quite ready to give them up just yet. He's no longer majorly grumpy if he hasn't napped so it's nice to have a choice every day about his routine.
Food: He's still a great eater and has a massive appetite. When people talk about having little boys that they just can't fill, I totally get it! He has a real sweet tooth and is particularly fond of 'circle biscuits' (party rings) and 'Kats' (Kit Kats) at the moment. He loves fish and any meat, potatoes and any fruit is still a hit. Generally so easy to feed wherever we are which is great.
Sleep: As long as he's allowed in with me for a snuggle in the night, his sleep is good! If he was to cosleep all night, I doubt he'd ever even wake up at all, but he does still start off in his bed in his room and then comes up to us at some point in the night. I really don't mind it and there are nights that I absolutely love having him close to snuggle. He's only this little once, he won't want to share his mummy's bed in ten years time so we're making the most of it and just all trying to get the maximum amount of sleep possible for the time being.
Milestones/other random things
• Henry knows and recognises most simple shapes including a square, rectangle, triangle, circle, parallelogram, semi circle and kite. We have a couple of great shape games that he loves to play and for some reason he loves trying to make different shapes with his napkin whenever we're out for dinner!
• He can count confidently to 20 and can reliably count a set of objects to 10, very rarely making a mistake now. He recognises 2 and 3 objects without needing to count, for example the other day he said at dinner time, "why does daddy have three and mummy have two and me only have one??" (talking about our fajitas!). He's starting to recognise what numbers look like but only really knows 1,2,3 and 10, mainly from games and also from pressing the buttons in lifts!!
• He is now totally potty trained in the day and at night too. He does still wear a pull up at night, mainly because I'm too scared to take it away, but he's had one wet night in the last 2 months so that's pretty good going.
• He is a total softie and cries at films if they're sad. He absolutely sobbed his heart out at Dumbo but insisted we keep watching to check that Dumbo got to cuddle his mummy at the end. He also cries at The Good Dinosaur when Arlo has to say goodbye to his friend at the end and The Jungle Book was trauma from the word go for him when Mowgli's mummy left him in a basket. Heartbreaking when you're a little boy apparently. Bless him.
• His memory is totally amazing, he remembers things and places from months before, things you didn't even know he'd seen at the time. He'll watch a film and then recite and act out huge pieces of dialogue later on. That sounds pretty cute until he's playing with other children and you suddenly hear him put on his baddy voice and say (from 101 Dalmatians) "you bang em on the head and I'll do the skinning!". He knows the words to so many of his books off by heart so I'll often find him 'reading' a book to himself or he'll want to tell us or Archie a story. The voices he uses are hilarious and I think he's going to enjoy acting and performing when he's a bit older.
• His favourite things are dinosaurs, playing cars, acting out trains (shouting 'All aboard!' at the top of his lungs and talking about steam and engineers and conductors etc!), farms, all animals but horses in particular, cooking and being outdoors. He's such a busy little boy and playing in the mud, water, sand and exploring outside are definitely some of his favourite things to do.
• He really hates upsetting us and immediately says sorry if he thinks he's done something wrong. Sitting on the 'naughty step' is absolutely his worst nightmare, so using it as a threat works a treat if he is acting up a little.
• He is still the calmest and most laid back two year old I know. He absolutely takes after his daddy in that respect and it's meant that the 'terrible twos' have been the absolute opposite of terrible. I could count on one hand the number of real tantrums he's had this year and I don't think any of them have lasted longer than ten minutes. He's such a happy and gentle little boy, I honestly don't know what we ever did to deserve him.
So that's it, a little 3 year blog update on my very favourite 3 year old in the entire world. Here's to his 4th year, may it be as healthy and happy as this last year has been. I can't wait to see where it'll take us.
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