I thought I’d mark Jake’s 20th Month milestone. His speech is coming on nicely. The other day Amy and I tried to count all the words we though he knew. We think it is in the region of 200 words that he recognizes and can say. He has recently started to join words together. One of his favourites is “mummy cow” which he learnt after reading “Little Spotted Calf”.
He is really starting to come into his own and his personality is growing. Yesterday I was laughing after he started wringing his hands. He immediately started to do it again while laughing too.
One of his favourite TV programmes is “In The Night Garden”. He likes Iggle-piggle and also Makka Pakka. He does a great impersonation of Makka Pakka’s walk :-).
Jake has not been well this week. What started as a benign cold has turned into a nasty chest infection. We took him to the Doctors today and he was prescribed antibiotics for the first time because of his chest :-(. His sleeping went to pot a few days ago. He was refusing to go into his cot or even take his “radish” in the cot. What he wanted was to come into Mummy and Daddys bed for “night night”. We are relenting now because he is so poorly.
I am working from home today and the day is going so slowly. Both of us are feeling ill. I have started to get a sore throat and a snuffly nose. Ames is suffering also from a lack of sleep. She is in bed with Jake as I write this, hopefully getting some rest.