Scenes from our Kelowna trip
Our little guy is officially two, or "teewww," as he would say while trying to figure out how to stick up the right number of fingers. We had a very fun and successful party for him last week in Kelowna with family friends and are throwing a kiddie party here in Ottawa on Saturday, so the occasion is being amply celebrated. What's the birthday boy up to these days? Here are a few highlights:
- He can i.d. all the colours by name but has trouble saying "yellow." Usually he just calls it "red" instead.
- He weighs 27 pounds and is 35 inches tall. I've heard from a variety of people that you can double a child's height at age 2 to get a reliable estimate of his adult height. So Henry's on track to hit 5'10", which will put him eye-to-eye with pretty much every close male relative he has, except tall Grandpa Mike.
- Every day brings new words, and he's starting to string words together.
- His memory skills and awareness of the world around him took a big leap forward recently. On the negative side, that means he's now nervous around a lot of things that never used to frighten him, such as animals. On the plus side, he remembers people very well. When Grandma Eileen came to visit in February, Henry acted very shy and hid in my arms for several minutes when we picked her up at the airport. But when we got off the plane in Kelowna last week, he cried "MaMa!" and ran towards her for a big hug as soon as he spotted her in the crowd. Same thing for BopPop, whom Henry hadn't seen since January. He talks about his grandparents and uncles frequently.
- Favourite hobby is making a mess, whether it's with crayons, sidewalk chalk, dirt, sand, water, food or toys. He's truly a prodigy in this respect.
- He's still a very hesitant and picky eater, but if there's Stilton cheese in the house, he'll demand "blue" until it's all gone.
- He has no interest in sitting on, let alone pedalling, the fancy tricycle we bought him for his birthday. Oh well.
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