Baby's first...full dressing
There's always been a little help in the dressing department, well "always" feels like it but it's not really. We've had help with putting clothes on, more success at taking them off, but tonight was a first full bedtime dressing on his own!
There's always been a little help in the dressing department, well "always" feels like it but it's not really. We've had help with putting clothes on, more success at taking them off, but tonight was a first full bedtime dressing on his own!
It certainly beats chaisng him into soft play areas searching for missing socks! Honestly, they get removed nearly every opportunity. When others are doing it we're on a losing battle (I'm amazed by how many parents let their kids in with no socks on, not even wearing them to the place...), but if he's the only one we can normally contain it. And by contain I mean one of two things:
- he carries them with him
- he leaves them at the bottom of a slide
And there is the clue. He removes them to walk back up the slide - extra grip you see. Now that he worked out all on his own. And something I wish he hadn't.
So when the time came that both PJ top and PJ bottoms were put on without any help from MOTS or myself, it was a special moment, one where I could look back and reflect on the removals of the past (have I mentioned the almost nakedness in soft play cafes before??) and realise he can help as well an hinder.
And on the same night we expand our knowledge of the book "We're Going on a Bear Hunt". It's great, it's all about repetition. It's great, it's all about repetition. So when the words come from him as we read it (careful not to miss anything now...) we know full well it's being taken in. Which makes us think his first theatre trip will be a success - to see the stage version of this classic book, with the Gents for company.
Watch out JG, he ends up under the covers at the end!!
