For the first two years of your child’s life, it feels like there are new ‘firsts’ almost every week. But after two, they seem to know and do so much, it’s hard to keep up with all the new stuff they keep learning.
Today we had a big one though. Toby loves to scribble on paper, but he’s more of an abstract expressionist than a French impressionist, if you know what I mean. He usually prefers to instruct us to draw things, rather than draw them himself. And my attempts to teach him to copy letters and numbers have so far been ignored with the kind of stubbornness that only a two year old can have. But this afternoon, Toby had a visit from a very clever little girlfriend of his who is quite advanced with her drawing skills, and after seeing her draw several drawings, his sense of competition must have kicked in, because after she left he drew a shark (which really does look rather like a shark) and a stingray (with a stinger and everything!) and then let his Omi (who is staying with us for a few days) help him write his name, and then… AND THEN…. he drew his very first T, all by himself, without even being prompted!
It was a very proud mummy moment, and although I had put down my camera by time he did it because I was so excited, I managed to catch a good frame a few minutes earlier of him having a second go at the ‘y’ at the end of his name, with the help of Omi. (And you can see part of his shark at the top of the page and his stingray just to the right of his name).
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