This is you in a very bad light, opening presents on your birthday, wearing your favourite jumper

• Turned two! You loved opening the presents and blowing the birthday candles. You cut the cake but didn’t want try it at all.
• Enjoyed spending time with your grandparents.
• Got obsessed with one of your jumpers (the same one you are wearing in the picture) and refused to wear anything else. So we are now on the hunt for another some one.
• Made me print pictures of your little friends and loved looking at them.
• Learned lots of new words and started repeating the ones that you like, i.e. tuta (sweatpants), cassa (cash register) and Olaf (it’s a character from the cartoon Pimpa).
• Missed your teacher Becca at nursery and were feeling a bit low, but had a good week overall.

• Made us deal with some temper tantrums for the first time and we didn’t do so well. But we are learning on the go here, and after lots of reading we think we can handle it better next time.
• Loved playing and jumping with all the fallen leaves.
• Added new words to your vocabulary, and we have now stopped counting them. But we love when you say: “batti no”, meaning “ciabatte (slippers) no”.
• Were very cuddly and loved watching some tv sitting on our laps.

This week you:

• discovered vibrations are fun, and spend lots of time banging on the tray of your highchair to make the nuts jumping and going around.
• gave me a kiss on my belly when I told you I had a stomachache.
• loved loved loved waiting for dad to come home in the evening. You got all excited waiting for him at the window and then rushing down the stairs to surprise him behind the front door!
• Have been down with a cold again. But you have been very brave in taking all the medicines you were prescribed, even that cough syrup which tasted horribly.

• Asked to join in every time your dad and I kissed and/or hugged each other. We love family hugs and kisses.
• Had a play date with your little friends and finally started to sort of play with each other. We have been been waiting for this moment since you all were born.
• Refused to sing happy birthday to papa (didn’t even let me do it!) but loved blowing the candles of his birthday cake.
• Loved lying down next to me after waking up in the morning and putting your arm around my neck. And I looooove it!

It’s week 45 and it’s only 4 weeks away from your 2nd birthday! We spent the week in Central Italy visiting your grandparents and as usual, time went by too quickly.