Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Feeling guilty
Hello there! Sorry about the long pause in our blog entries. The last few weeks have been pretty busy and writing on the blog has for some reason always been postponed to later. Much later as it turned out.
Anyway. The main things that have happened are a meeting with Elias' nursery teacher to talk about his development and a visit to the clinic for an 18 month check-up.
At nursery they go through a "list" of things like what the child likes to play, how he/she solves conflicts, how the sleeping works and so on. She said he really likes the "gathering" in the morning when they sit down and sing songs, he loves reading books, moving the chairs around, and to play with the soft toys. He and a little girl Amelia often plays next to each other thinking they are playing with each other. He isn't so fond of being outside and he handles conflicts by crying. He can't get dressed or undressed himself but he can take his hat off (impressive!), he eats with a spoon, he can climb the ladder up to the nursing table on his own. She also told us he says a few words we didn't know about like bread, milk, octopus (not so sure about this one!). He is usually one of the first to fall asleep after lunch.
At the clinic he was weighed and measured and they checked that he can build a tower from three blocks, that he draws when given paper and crayon, that he says a few words and so on. Normally they also give the child a jab at this checkup but Elias got his early in the summer because we were going to Mallorca so this time he didn't have to have it. Next checkup is at 3 years but we booked a time in between, mainly to keep track of his weight. It is nothing to worry about at the moment although he is pretty big, but we just don't want too much time to pass in case it does turn into a problem.
And now it is almost Christmas. We have already given him his present from us (a huge box of duplo), since we already have quite a few pressies for him to take to England from other people. I can't believe we are leaving on Friday already. It will be interesting to see what he thinks of sitting on a train for 4 hours...
Anyway. The main things that have happened are a meeting with Elias' nursery teacher to talk about his development and a visit to the clinic for an 18 month check-up.
At nursery they go through a "list" of things like what the child likes to play, how he/she solves conflicts, how the sleeping works and so on. She said he really likes the "gathering" in the morning when they sit down and sing songs, he loves reading books, moving the chairs around, and to play with the soft toys. He and a little girl Amelia often plays next to each other thinking they are playing with each other. He isn't so fond of being outside and he handles conflicts by crying. He can't get dressed or undressed himself but he can take his hat off (impressive!), he eats with a spoon, he can climb the ladder up to the nursing table on his own. She also told us he says a few words we didn't know about like bread, milk, octopus (not so sure about this one!). He is usually one of the first to fall asleep after lunch.
At the clinic he was weighed and measured and they checked that he can build a tower from three blocks, that he draws when given paper and crayon, that he says a few words and so on. Normally they also give the child a jab at this checkup but Elias got his early in the summer because we were going to Mallorca so this time he didn't have to have it. Next checkup is at 3 years but we booked a time in between, mainly to keep track of his weight. It is nothing to worry about at the moment although he is pretty big, but we just don't want too much time to pass in case it does turn into a problem.
And now it is almost Christmas. We have already given him his present from us (a huge box of duplo), since we already have quite a few pressies for him to take to England from other people. I can't believe we are leaving on Friday already. It will be interesting to see what he thinks of sitting on a train for 4 hours...
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