February 02, 2006
Pissing with the big boys
Being the highly perceptive parents that we are it has suddenly occured to us that Jacob has grown up a lot in the last month since we have been in Australia.
In Amsterdam he still slept in his cot in our room. Just because there was no other bedroom and it didn't seem to make sense to buy a bed when we'd be moving so soon. In Australia his own room with a proper single-bed was waiting for him. We'd assumed he'd want to sleep with us at first and then once the strangeness of new-land, new-people, new-language and the vanishing-act-of-his-previous-life had worn off we'd ease him into his own room and the 'big' bed. Just goes to show what we know.
From our first night here he has slept in his own bed in his own room quite happily. The first three nights he woke up in the middle of the night but that was most likely the residue of his jet-lag. Since then he has slept through every morning until dawn when he then comes into us.
In addition to that he is now half-way to being toilet trained. The great thing about hot weather and wooden floors is that he can wander around naked all day. Two days of this and he'd stopped having accidents on the floor. Now, its only when we're outside the house and he has clothes on that he sometimes misses his cue. But today he went the entire day without a nappy or an accident. He is not always keen to go to the toilet when we suggest it but can usually be seduced by the promise of being allowed to stand up 'like papa'.
A future without nappies beckons...........
Posted by Faith