28-30 months

Two and a half years. Or... 28-30 months old.

Dexter is just a full on chatterbox now. There isn't anything he can't or won't repeat. He can hold full conversations and discuss things relevant to the topic. He can sing entire nursery rhymes - and even teaches me a few from time to time. His counting has also massively improved (we count objects as much as possible to get plenty of practice) and he can recognise most numbers between 1 and 10 when written down.

Dexter @ 28 months

Dexter is also becoming such a well mannered young man. This is something we have always encouraged from him being a baby, but I am so proud at his frequent use of please and thank you. As well as being incredibly polite, it's just adorable. Especially when he says "no please" instead of no thank you haha

On the flip side though, our little chatterbox is now so inquisitive that he is just full of questions. LOTS OF QUESTIONS!! Predominantly "what are you doing mummy?" "what are you doing daddy?" every. five. minutes. arghhh!!

As Dexter had been doing so well with his swimming lessons and seemed to be enjoying them so much we decided to sign him up for a second term - although this time around it was in a group with bigger boys and girls :) My kicker has become a Little Dipper! His confidence has increased considerably since starting classes in January and he is more and more accepting of swimming under the water now. His favourite activities are playing Jelly On The Plate where they get to jump off after and monkey walking along the side of the pool. He is so enthusiastic and excitable during his lessons so I'm really glad he is benefiting from them.

We found our recently too that Dexter has a girlfriend, oooooohhhh! ;) We had noticed when collecting him from nursery he was always with a certain young lady... one day, we were asked by one of his key workers if we knew that Dexter was in love with her. This adorable little blonde girl called Hetty - they are so cute together. They give each other hugs and kisses every day before he leaves. My heart melts at the sight <3

In final news, we think we may be getting that little bit closer to potty training with Dexter. There have been a few positive signs recently including him telling us more often when he needs his nappy changing and also wanting to go on the toilet - the big toilet too, Not just the potty. For the most part he is just getting used to sitting on it now although we did get our first wee on it the other night (woohoo!) Fingers crossed we might be there by the time his next blog update is due.