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!