New favourite blog and thinking about the kid

My new favourite blog is auntie cookie,  she writes about her youngest kid, at 11 months, how quickly it went from the soft floppy neck to the kid rolling on others. So true. My kid is displaying classic toddler behaviour. The other evening he spent much time working out how to walk in socks and thongs (it's hard for us all, really). This evening he was excited to have our visitor, Pirate Pete, and kept on bumping knuckles with him, because he knows it's cool. 

He is cool, the coolest kid in his group at the moment, always laughing, socially outgoing, interested and involved. The learning stories that have come home are so much fun to read. Yesterday when I was trying to get something out of the walk in pantry (wow, just writing that me feel bourgeois) and he closed the door on me. That's been his trick, closing the door behind himself and "hiding". He goes in there to sort out the shelves, rearrange the bowls. I tricked him into the pantry this evening and then closed the door, his turn! I knocked on the door and he called out "Hulluh!" and when I opened the door he ran out, "ta-da!" style and did his self applause clapping routine. 

A and I cannot get over how cute his is. We had an awful fright on Tuesday, when he headbutted a piece of playground equipment and was bleeding so much and had such a deep cut that the ambulance was called and I had to take him to the hospital. His childcare teacher joined me, which was great, as he is so calm and he drove my car, found a great street park, and kept his cool when I lost it (not about the emergency department, but about an ATM that "ate" my key card, or so I thought. 

The kid was fine, he was waving at the nurse through the perspex barrier, pressing the magnetic door exit buttons, weighing himself on the scales. Being held still for 2 minutes whilst they put anaesthetic gel then surgical glue, was not great, but he enjoyed watching the iphone video footage that his teacher took of him to show back to the childcare crew. He's talking so much more now, the only sentence I've understood is "me, mummy, more", which appeared to be food related. Most things are copying, and he is laughing his head off at the moment about the silliest things. Like being able to master the not-so childproof drawer seals, discovering his tooth brush has suction cups and can be stuck to the bathroom basin, so many things. Everything is funny. He is so gorgeous.