He has, however, found another use for the hat:
He thinks he looks lovely :)
Monday, 25 November 2013
Re-purposing
At 2 years 7.5 months Riku still hates to have his hair washed. I don't think there has been one time in his life that Riku has had a hair-wash free of yelling- he just does not like to have water poured or sprayed over his head. I bought a "shampoo hat" in the vague hope that he would wear it and it would make him happier about having his hair washed, but no such luck.
He has, however, found another use for the hat:
He has, however, found another use for the hat:
Saturday, 19 October 2013
Long overdue post!
It's about time for an update in the life and times of Riku! He keeps me so busy these days that I find myself pretty tired once I've put him to bed and tidied away the aftermath of a day of playing in the living room and kitchen, and although I often think about it, I never manage to get as far as posting something.
I will try to write a few proper updates on various things soon- language development, eating, likes and dislikes etc, but for now here are some photos of the things Riku has been doing lately:
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| This is an Ikea storage box- Riku decided that with the addition of a cushion it made a great place to lie down for a couple of minutes! |
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| He can now hold on to the swing and be pushed- Mummy is a bit scared to push him very high though! |
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| Blue! Blue! |
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| Boy in the bubble- finally getting to play at the park with friends again after his hand, foot and mouth disease quarantine |
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| Riku and the spider lilies |
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Hand, foots and mouse...
The next in the childhood illness line-up for us has been hand, foot and mouth disease (or as Riku says, hand, foots and mouse). I hadn't heard of this until after Riku was born, and it seems like it is a relatively new illness (first reported in the 1950s), and probably also another one like roseola that people my age probably had as kids, but nobody had a name for it so it was just a "fever and rash".
There's a high probability Mister Riku picked this up at daycare, since he started showing symptoms 3 days after being there, and we had a phone call from them to say that several kids there had come down with it in the last week. Luckily he had a pretty mild dose- the fever ranged between 38 and 39 degrees, but it didn't slow him down too much, and the rash (like tiny blisters) wasn't very extensive and didn't seem to be very itchy. In the worst case I have heard kids can have blisters in their mouths which stop them wanting to eat or drink anything, but Riku only had a couple of dots inside his lip that I could see, and was eating more or less normally.
Unfortunately we had to keep Riku home from both a craft playgroup that I was supposed to be running (a friend took over), and a friend's birthday party, but never mind! At least we didn't pass it on to anyone that I know of, and also none of the adults in the house caught it either, so I'm guessing we have all had it before and have some immunity.
One side effect of the illness that we are starting to see is peeling skin on his feet and hands. I'm hoping this won't progress to another fairly common effect which is losing the toenails and sometimes fingernails- if it does happen it probably won't be for another month or more yet, according to what I've read.
Anyway, hopefully that will be the last we see of that illness! I had been worried about it since I had heard of kids really suffering with the blisters in their mouths, but it turned out to be not so bad.
There's a high probability Mister Riku picked this up at daycare, since he started showing symptoms 3 days after being there, and we had a phone call from them to say that several kids there had come down with it in the last week. Luckily he had a pretty mild dose- the fever ranged between 38 and 39 degrees, but it didn't slow him down too much, and the rash (like tiny blisters) wasn't very extensive and didn't seem to be very itchy. In the worst case I have heard kids can have blisters in their mouths which stop them wanting to eat or drink anything, but Riku only had a couple of dots inside his lip that I could see, and was eating more or less normally.
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| Looking under the weather here, but actually he only lay down for about 10 minutes and soon had the forehead-cooling sheet off! |
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| Spots on his hands and feet soon after they started appearing. It got worse than this and spread all up his legs and to his nappy area as well, but didn't really seem to bother him. |
Unfortunately we had to keep Riku home from both a craft playgroup that I was supposed to be running (a friend took over), and a friend's birthday party, but never mind! At least we didn't pass it on to anyone that I know of, and also none of the adults in the house caught it either, so I'm guessing we have all had it before and have some immunity.
One side effect of the illness that we are starting to see is peeling skin on his feet and hands. I'm hoping this won't progress to another fairly common effect which is losing the toenails and sometimes fingernails- if it does happen it probably won't be for another month or more yet, according to what I've read.
Anyway, hopefully that will be the last we see of that illness! I had been worried about it since I had heard of kids really suffering with the blisters in their mouths, but it turned out to be not so bad.
Thursday, 29 August 2013
Can you see the resemblance?
Here is Riku's first recognisable drawing of a face:
It's me, apparently- I am flattered, kind of! To Riku it must look exactly like me because he saw the photo on my phone a couple of days after drawing it and said "Oh, Mama!"
After I took this photo he added eyebrows and a hat to it and told me it was now a policeman :)
It's me, apparently- I am flattered, kind of! To Riku it must look exactly like me because he saw the photo on my phone a couple of days after drawing it and said "Oh, Mama!"
After I took this photo he added eyebrows and a hat to it and told me it was now a policeman :)
Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Hot, hot, hot...
We have been having a record-breaking heatwave this last week, with temps up to 38 degrees during the day, and the hottest overnight low ever recorded in Tokyo on Sunday morning, 30.7 degrees. I put Riku's room thermometer out on the deck in the shade on Saturday, and this was the result:
It probably could have gone higher, but had reached the limit! It was far more humid than 25%, probably between 60-70%, but for some reason the hygrometers on these things break really easily. Quite sure the thermometer part was accurate though, it was very very hot!
Riku seems to take after his dad more than me, and other than a bit of heat rash (much less than last year thankfully), he doesn't seem bothered by the heat much at all. Yesterday though when we got home from summer school (will do a post on that soon), he stripped off, headed straight out to the deck and lay down in his paddling pool, so he must have been feeling it a bit! I haven't got any photos of him lying in the pool, just these ones of him trying to squirt me with the pump:
Looks like this weather will continue through most of August- glad we have our new deck to create some shade and put the paddling pool on!
It probably could have gone higher, but had reached the limit! It was far more humid than 25%, probably between 60-70%, but for some reason the hygrometers on these things break really easily. Quite sure the thermometer part was accurate though, it was very very hot!
Riku seems to take after his dad more than me, and other than a bit of heat rash (much less than last year thankfully), he doesn't seem bothered by the heat much at all. Yesterday though when we got home from summer school (will do a post on that soon), he stripped off, headed straight out to the deck and lay down in his paddling pool, so he must have been feeling it a bit! I haven't got any photos of him lying in the pool, just these ones of him trying to squirt me with the pump:
Looks like this weather will continue through most of August- glad we have our new deck to create some shade and put the paddling pool on!
Friday, 2 August 2013
Rainy day
We haven't had many rainy days this summer, but it rained on and off most of Wednesday this week, so Riku got a chance to wear his boots, poncho and rain hat and go jumping in puddles for the first time in a while!
Sunday, 21 July 2013
Words and some overdue Okinawa pics!
I thought I would do an update on Riku's speaking- I can definitely no longer count or list all the words he says. He is regularly putting together phrases of 3 or 4 words, which is a big step. Most of his phrases are vehicle-related. e.g. "big big yellow truck!" or "two black taxi!" (he hasn't figured out the plural 's' yet), but other topics include animals, food, what Papa is doing etc. He is still slightly on the slow side with his talking, but nothing out of the ordinary for a boy from a bilingual household.
I would say that the ratio of Japanese to English is about 30:70, but he switches back and forwards at times- for quite a while ambulance was kyukyusha (actually chuchusha in his pronunciation!), but now he uses a word that is much closer to ambulance. He also switches between "here" and "kochi" and "there" and "acchi". Some fruits and vegetables he says in English (apple, peach, bean) while others are in Japanese (ninjin, piman, budou). I have heard that most kids will have figured out the difference between the languages at around 4 years and be using them separately without mixing them up, but I'm sure it can vary with the child.
A lot of the words he uses probably only I understand at this point, but his pronunciation is getting clearer all the time- "truck" has been "cuck" for the last month or so since he started using the word, but in the last few days I have started to hear him pronounce the 't' at the beginning properly.
And now for the photos from our trip to Okinawa with GG and Nana Barbara last month- not really related, but just so this post has some photos!
I would say that the ratio of Japanese to English is about 30:70, but he switches back and forwards at times- for quite a while ambulance was kyukyusha (actually chuchusha in his pronunciation!), but now he uses a word that is much closer to ambulance. He also switches between "here" and "kochi" and "there" and "acchi". Some fruits and vegetables he says in English (apple, peach, bean) while others are in Japanese (ninjin, piman, budou). I have heard that most kids will have figured out the difference between the languages at around 4 years and be using them separately without mixing them up, but I'm sure it can vary with the child.
A lot of the words he uses probably only I understand at this point, but his pronunciation is getting clearer all the time- "truck" has been "cuck" for the last month or so since he started using the word, but in the last few days I have started to hear him pronounce the 't' at the beginning properly.
And now for the photos from our trip to Okinawa with GG and Nana Barbara last month- not really related, but just so this post has some photos!
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| Fishies! After a false start (it was a lot further from the airport than I thought) we finally made it to Churami Aquarium |
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| You can't tell from the expression here, but Riku loved the pools at the hotel so much he wouldn't get out! |
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| Checking out the hotel's playroom after breakfast |
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| Taking advantage of the shade from the lifeguard tower for some sandcastle making! |
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| Figuring out how GG's binoculars work |
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| Lucky enough to get his own seat- and a toy plane- on the flight home :) |
Sunday, 14 July 2013
Finger painting (actually hand painting)
On a rainy day recently we tried finger painting. This isn't really an activity that uses up a lot of time with Riku though since after just a couple of minutes he starts to get concerned about the state of his hands: "Oh no, hands! Dirty! Clean?" (running towards the sink). It takes a lot of convincing to get him to continue for more than a couple of minutes!
We did manage to create one masterpiece though :)
In case you were wondering, the uneven fringe was due to a very quick chop the morning these photos were taken. Have since managed to even it up and it looks a lot better!
We did manage to create one masterpiece though :)
In case you were wondering, the uneven fringe was due to a very quick chop the morning these photos were taken. Have since managed to even it up and it looks a lot better!
Thursday, 30 May 2013
What Riku has been up to lately
Fishing...
Trying out faster and higher slides...
Bouncing...
Eating Elmo cupcakes...
Revisiting his first swing...
Getting soaked...
Friday, 17 May 2013
Eating at two years and one month
I have decided to do a series of updates on where Riku is at two years rather than one post as I suspect it would turn into a pretty long one! This is partly just to document things for myself so 6 months or a year from now I can look back and compare. Last post I looked at his talking, so now I'll update on the eating situation.
His eating is something that has improved so much compared to six months ago, and it is such a relief. The turning point was a few weeks after he was sick with suspected rotavirus, and although he had put back on a bit of the kilo he lost, it had been very slow, and he was being pickier than ever. One evening after half an hour of trying to cajole him into eating I decided out of desperation that I would try that old standard of frustrated parents: putting him to bed without any dinner if he wasn't going to eat what I had made for him. I felt very mean, but I took him upstairs and put him in his cot and left him for about 30 seconds. I then went back in and asked him if he would like to eat his dinner now, and got a tearful yes, and he actually ate the whole bowl, without any messing around at all.
The next day all I had to do was carry him up the stairs, and by the third day I only had to ask him whether he wanted to go to bed and he consented to eat his entire dinner! I'm not too happy I had to resort to that kind of tactics, but something had to give, he was eating very badly and is by far the skinniest of all the kids we know who are the same age. I was starting to be genuinely concerned that his growth or brain development would be affected by his poor eating- I'm not sure if it's really possible for that to happen as he wasn't starving, but most days I would say he ate a bare minimum and far too high a proportion of what he ate was sweet or salty foods that I gave him just so he would have eaten something. Not only has the amount of food he eats greatly increased, but he has now also started eating corn, carrots and broccoli quite happily- not whole, but mixed into other food, which is a major step ahead for us as well. As a result he is now up to 10.9 kg (from 10.5) after hardly gaining any weight at all for a good 6 months- hopefully he will hit 11 soon!
I do often have to feed him still, otherwise he will just get out of his high chair and run around, and the amount of different kinds of foods he will eat is still fairly limited compared to a lot of kids we know, but meal times are no longer the ordeal they were for most of last year, hopefully it keeps improving from here! :)
His eating is something that has improved so much compared to six months ago, and it is such a relief. The turning point was a few weeks after he was sick with suspected rotavirus, and although he had put back on a bit of the kilo he lost, it had been very slow, and he was being pickier than ever. One evening after half an hour of trying to cajole him into eating I decided out of desperation that I would try that old standard of frustrated parents: putting him to bed without any dinner if he wasn't going to eat what I had made for him. I felt very mean, but I took him upstairs and put him in his cot and left him for about 30 seconds. I then went back in and asked him if he would like to eat his dinner now, and got a tearful yes, and he actually ate the whole bowl, without any messing around at all.
The next day all I had to do was carry him up the stairs, and by the third day I only had to ask him whether he wanted to go to bed and he consented to eat his entire dinner! I'm not too happy I had to resort to that kind of tactics, but something had to give, he was eating very badly and is by far the skinniest of all the kids we know who are the same age. I was starting to be genuinely concerned that his growth or brain development would be affected by his poor eating- I'm not sure if it's really possible for that to happen as he wasn't starving, but most days I would say he ate a bare minimum and far too high a proportion of what he ate was sweet or salty foods that I gave him just so he would have eaten something. Not only has the amount of food he eats greatly increased, but he has now also started eating corn, carrots and broccoli quite happily- not whole, but mixed into other food, which is a major step ahead for us as well. As a result he is now up to 10.9 kg (from 10.5) after hardly gaining any weight at all for a good 6 months- hopefully he will hit 11 soon!
I do often have to feed him still, otherwise he will just get out of his high chair and run around, and the amount of different kinds of foods he will eat is still fairly limited compared to a lot of kids we know, but meal times are no longer the ordeal they were for most of last year, hopefully it keeps improving from here! :)
Helping to tear up lettuce for a salad for dinner one night last week just before he had a hair cut, which probably deserves its own blog post! He didn't eat the salad of course, we haven't got quite that far with him eating vegetables yet, but maybe one day!
Saturday, 11 May 2013
Words
Well, we definitely have a slow-ish talker, but he is within a normal range, especially for a boy from a bilingual family. I decided to make a list of the words he says (the ones I remember anyway, there are bound to be a few more!) at 25 months. With a lot of these words I and maybe his papa are the only ones who understand what he's saying- orange for example is "on", diamond is "minemine" for some reason, apple, hippo and purple all sound pretty much the same, and a lot of words are missing their final consonant, for example bike sounds more like "buy", nose is usually just "no" etc.
I have been surprised by the Japanese words he has picked up lately- partly from the educational DVDs he watches and partly from his papa being home more lately while waiting for his next work placement I guess. I was thinking it might be an idea to put him in a Japanese-language environment daycare for one or two days a week from next spring to give him more exposure to Japanese, but now I am starting to wonder if that is necessary and whether I should maybe send him to the English-language preschool that is very near to us instead!
Anyway, here are the words I have been able to think of while writing this post:
English:
yellow
red
green
blue
white
orange
purple
what's that?
there it is
that
no
ok
oh no!
uh-oh
all right
car
helicopter
plane
moon
star
bag
box
book
cracker
circle
diamond
juice
shoes
cheese
cheers
ball
tree
flower
Mama
Papa
Riku
Deedee (for Neenee, his maternal grandmother)
GG (his grandfather)
fishy
kitty
roar
meow
moo
eww
dirty
bath
wee
poo
bye bye
hello
hi there
bee (applies to almost all insects at the moment)
nose
eye
belly button (all he can say is "bibi" at the moment though!)
cuddle
door
bike
taxi
bus
broom broom
apple
nana
colour
stick
sticker
stop
go
stuck
dropped
plus the numbers 1-12 and all the letters of the alphabet, all of which he can recognise :)
Japanese:
hai (yes)
douzo (here you are)
dekita (I did it)
yatta (same meaning as above)
kiechatta (it disappeared)
chocho (butterfly)
kyukyusha (ambulance)
acchi (there)
doko (where)
are? (huh?)
kore (this)
dakko (pick me up)
wanwan (doggie)
ippai (lots)
He still chats away a lot of the time in his own language, but real words are gradually increasing. Will be interesting to see where he is a few months from now!
Just so there's a photo in this post, here's a picture of Riku with one of his very favourite things, a fire engine :)
I have been surprised by the Japanese words he has picked up lately- partly from the educational DVDs he watches and partly from his papa being home more lately while waiting for his next work placement I guess. I was thinking it might be an idea to put him in a Japanese-language environment daycare for one or two days a week from next spring to give him more exposure to Japanese, but now I am starting to wonder if that is necessary and whether I should maybe send him to the English-language preschool that is very near to us instead!
Anyway, here are the words I have been able to think of while writing this post:
English:
yellow
red
green
blue
white
orange
purple
what's that?
there it is
that
no
ok
oh no!
uh-oh
all right
car
helicopter
plane
moon
star
bag
box
book
cracker
circle
diamond
juice
shoes
cheese
cheers
ball
tree
flower
Mama
Papa
Riku
Deedee (for Neenee, his maternal grandmother)
GG (his grandfather)
fishy
kitty
roar
meow
moo
eww
dirty
bath
wee
poo
bye bye
hello
hi there
bee (applies to almost all insects at the moment)
nose
eye
belly button (all he can say is "bibi" at the moment though!)
cuddle
door
bike
taxi
bus
broom broom
apple
nana
colour
stick
sticker
stop
go
stuck
dropped
plus the numbers 1-12 and all the letters of the alphabet, all of which he can recognise :)
Japanese:
hai (yes)
douzo (here you are)
dekita (I did it)
yatta (same meaning as above)
kiechatta (it disappeared)
chocho (butterfly)
kyukyusha (ambulance)
acchi (there)
doko (where)
are? (huh?)
kore (this)
dakko (pick me up)
wanwan (doggie)
ippai (lots)
He still chats away a lot of the time in his own language, but real words are gradually increasing. Will be interesting to see where he is a few months from now!
Just so there's a photo in this post, here's a picture of Riku with one of his very favourite things, a fire engine :)
Thursday, 2 May 2013
This week in Riku-land
We have been taking it pretty easy this week after a busy April, but here are some photos of what Riku's been up to:
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| Waiting for his crepe to be served at a cafe in Shinjuku |
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| New gumboots! |
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| Morning yoga practice |
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| Followed by some horizontal bar work at the park! This is a favourite activity lately |
Tomorrow we are heading down to Riku's grandma's house, about a 90-minute train ride and 20-minute bus ride from here, for two days. Will try and post his birthday update next week!
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Friday, 12 April 2013
A two-year-old sliding pro!
Riku went through a stage where he wasn't keen on going on slides at all, but these days he has really got his sliding mojo back. He sometimes wants me to hold his hand on the slide when he first tries a higher one, but after a while is quite happy to zoom down by himself.
Here's a video I took on Tuesday of what was probably his thirtieth slide of the day, I can't manage to embed it at the moment so will just leave the link for now:
http://youtu.be/2CNtWkjuAiQ
Here's a video I took on Tuesday of what was probably his thirtieth slide of the day, I can't manage to embed it at the moment so will just leave the link for now:
http://youtu.be/2CNtWkjuAiQ
Sunday, 31 March 2013
Almost two and learning new things
In Japan children use a spoon when they start eating solid foods, just like elsewhere, then move to mastering a fork, but they also start practicing with chopsticks from an early age. Recently I got Riku some training chopsticks, and this weekend he did really well with using them to eat a rice dish :)
And yes, while he still uses his left hand quite often, it does look like he's right-handed! With his genetics (left-handers on both sides of the family) it was anyone's guess though :)
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Tummy bug
Apologies for the lack of blogging lately! Riku has discovered YouTube and if he sees my computer open during the day he starts demanding to see Thomas the train, Cars and Chuggington videos. Then he made sure that no-one could use our computers for a while by stuffing magnets in the disc drives and breaking them, so we have had the computers in at the Apple store having very expensive repairs!
Right now though the poor little guy is quite unwell, he's picked up a stomach virus so spent yesterday throwing up everywhere- the washing machine was going all day as he took out the living room rug, two duvets, 3 blankets, sheets, several changes of clothes for him and me and about 8 towels. Then today it has been affecting his other end more so no vomiting, but I have been changing nappies several times an hour all day! He has been lying down, sleeping on and off and hardly moving when awake for the last two days. He did ask for a cracker and ate it about an hour ago, so that's a good sign.
He has been so sick that he wasn't even all that interested in his beloved trains and cars, but he did spend a bit of time watching videos of them in between snoozing:
Hopefully he will be back to normal soon and we can update you on recent activities!
Right now though the poor little guy is quite unwell, he's picked up a stomach virus so spent yesterday throwing up everywhere- the washing machine was going all day as he took out the living room rug, two duvets, 3 blankets, sheets, several changes of clothes for him and me and about 8 towels. Then today it has been affecting his other end more so no vomiting, but I have been changing nappies several times an hour all day! He has been lying down, sleeping on and off and hardly moving when awake for the last two days. He did ask for a cracker and ate it about an hour ago, so that's a good sign.
He has been so sick that he wasn't even all that interested in his beloved trains and cars, but he did spend a bit of time watching videos of them in between snoozing:
Hopefully he will be back to normal soon and we can update you on recent activities!
Friday, 15 February 2013
Two months till two!
Long time no post- Riku's bedtime is later these days (around 8.30 to 8.45 usually), which gives me less blogging time (since he tends to wake up before 6 I try to get to bed before 11 most days). I have also been unfortunate enough to have the flu and then a cold back to back in the last few weeks, which didn't leave me with much energy!
Anyway, the big two isn't far off now, and I can see some "terrible twos"-type behaviour emerging, but there are lots of fun new things too, never a dull moment with my little guy!
The obsession with vehicles continues unabated- here he is in the driver's seat at a kids' play area we went to last week, telling K that backseat driving assistance is not needed:
He is getting very good at operating iPhones, scrolling through apps and photos and picking the ones he's interested in. He also likes to take photos, and will run around with the camera function on saying "chee! chee!" Most photos are of the carpet or the ceiling but here is a surprisingly good one of Papa:
We also get a lot of self portraits, this one perhaps not his best angle though:
He loves to have his picture taken and will smile for the camera (most of the time):
The black line on his head in this one is from the infamous permanent-marker-on-table incident- it came off him much easier than it did off the table!
While still not a big talker, he is gradually increasing his vocabulary, and has said his first two-word phrase: "cheese car". That may not mean much to other people, but I know that he means he wants to use the car-shaped cookie cutter to make shapes with cheese slices, one of his favourite activities at the moment. I'm hoping that at some point I will be able to convince him to eat vegetables with the same technique, no luck yet though!
Anyway, the big two isn't far off now, and I can see some "terrible twos"-type behaviour emerging, but there are lots of fun new things too, never a dull moment with my little guy!
The obsession with vehicles continues unabated- here he is in the driver's seat at a kids' play area we went to last week, telling K that backseat driving assistance is not needed:
He is getting very good at operating iPhones, scrolling through apps and photos and picking the ones he's interested in. He also likes to take photos, and will run around with the camera function on saying "chee! chee!" Most photos are of the carpet or the ceiling but here is a surprisingly good one of Papa:
We also get a lot of self portraits, this one perhaps not his best angle though:
He loves to have his picture taken and will smile for the camera (most of the time):
The black line on his head in this one is from the infamous permanent-marker-on-table incident- it came off him much easier than it did off the table!
While still not a big talker, he is gradually increasing his vocabulary, and has said his first two-word phrase: "cheese car". That may not mean much to other people, but I know that he means he wants to use the car-shaped cookie cutter to make shapes with cheese slices, one of his favourite activities at the moment. I'm hoping that at some point I will be able to convince him to eat vegetables with the same technique, no luck yet though!
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Snow days
Yesterday morning while we were at T's mum's house for the long weekend it started snowing, and kept snowing all day- within a couple of hours there was already about 10cm on the ground. The (un-forecast) snow caused lots of traffic disruption, but was fun for Riku :)
First here he is with his cousin Tora, who is almost exactly a year older. For the first time they really seemed to be able to play together- nice for Riku to have a cousin who is close in age!
This isn't such a good photo but they are both so active that it can be hard to get both of them in one photo- T has a funny video of them both laughing hysterically though, I'll put that up soon.
Next Riku in the snow in his grandmother's back garden- I think he wasn't sure what he was supposed to do at this point!
First here he is with his cousin Tora, who is almost exactly a year older. For the first time they really seemed to be able to play together- nice for Riku to have a cousin who is close in age!
This isn't such a good photo but they are both so active that it can be hard to get both of them in one photo- T has a funny video of them both laughing hysterically though, I'll put that up soon.
Next Riku in the snow in his grandmother's back garden- I think he wasn't sure what he was supposed to do at this point!
And wandering round our place this morning- there was a hard crust on the snow by this point but he was doing well walking on it and didn't fall over much! Also note that both yesterday and today I got him to wear a hat for a while- I think he is starting to get the point of them for when it's cold, at least!
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| There's even snow on my bike! |
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| This stuff is a bit hard to walk on! |
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| Ok, getting the hang of it! |
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