your twenty-seventh month

You were such an incredible kid.

And the rate you were learning things just blew us away.

Having hesitantly started telling you a couple of letter sounds

when you pointed to letters in your play,

you now knew most of them.

Mummy was over the moon to be getting to pass on her phonics knowledge to you,

and your thirst for learning made us terribly proud.

You would stop letters and numbers all over the place now

and excitedly tell us what it was you could see.

We were so worried about not wanting to be pushy with you,

but taking our lead from you

you just seemed to desperate to learn everything . . . NOW!

We had been offering you an open, grown up cup

and for a little while we'd been having no luck at all,

you just hadn't been interested.

But all of a sudden you cracked it

and after a few messy attempts

where you poured practically the entire cup of water down your front,

you could do it now

and loved having opportunities to practise.

You were going through an absolute obsession with the slide

and would ask to go to the park every single time we went out the front door.

Once at the park, you could play on the slide for ages,

with an occasional break to go on the swings.

You were so confident on the climbing equipment now

and it was lovely to see you being so independent,

especially when there were other children at the park

and you would wait patiently while they used the equipment.