Gabriel Edward

Well, little Gabriel is growing up fast. He still doesn't say much, which can be frustrating at times (for all concerned), but he generally gets his messages across. Well, when all you ever want is more treats from your snack pot then yelling "POT" across the kitchen at Mummy kind of works.

We have only had one other incidence of joining 2 words so far, and those were "bad" and "baby", which is probably fairly appropriate.

Gabriel adores his baby brother, and they are just so sweet together. He plays peekaboo with him, tickles him, tries to give him his dummy or bottle of milk (Gabriel is very, very good at sharing) and is generally quite lovely. Asa has prompted another new word though, which is "away", because no matter how much you love your baby brother they can still be a bad baby sometimes and keep eating your puzzle!

The school run is fairly fraught these days as Gabriel is absolutely desperate to go and join Linus in the classroom, he thinks it looks like a lot of fun, if only we didn't have 2 and a half years to wait. But watch this space for nursery updates!

We've had a lot of fun lately with painting and drawing, which Gabriel really enjoys doing. He also enjoys using scissors. We do less of that.

Gabriel enjoying some hand-painting in the kitchen

way too much cute!

Christmas 2009

So, he isn't so good with the talking (but he knows what's going-on) but that didn't stop Gabriel having a lovely Christmas.

He liked the whole fetching presents thing, and rather liked the opening presents thing as well (a bit too much as the following picture shows).

That was, of course, Gabriel 'helping' his little brother Asa with one of his presents.

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Two words

Gabriel has been inspired to speak two words!

I bring you..... "Fish ...... Man"

'Fish Man' - in case you're wondering is 'The Missing Link' from Monsters vs. Aliens, which they had just finished watching on DVD.

Thank you Dreamworks, Mr Letterman, Mr Vernon and especially Mr Will Arnett - voice of 'Fish Man'.

Gabriel is Two

Gabriel has made it to TWO!

We had had a Birthday lunch thing on Sunday, even though his birthday was on Monday, and opened some presents (but still left a couple for the day itself)

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Cute (pt. 2)

In the <ahem> short time since we last updated Gabriel's site he has learnt to do many things.

He has been practising his jumping for a little while now, and a few days ago he decided to try jumping off stuff instead. He started small- the bottom step of the stairs. Having mastered that he had a go at standing on the wooden horse (on wheels) and jumping from it. That got a bit boring, so he moved onto jumping from the sofa. It is safe to say that jumping/climbing/falling/rolling around is Gabriel's new favourite pastime.

His talking is also coming along well, with, on average, a new word every day or so. This week he has learned to say "Pete", "stick" and "stuff". All very useful, I think you'll agree.

He is very into cars and other vehicles, which get driven around all over the place. Here he is being cute with some of his duplo which makes a car! It doesn't get much better than that. Well, maybe if it was a duplo car that you could jump off of.