And boy, is he well and truly Two!
James is a full on, thriving, active little boy, but by crikey does he have an attitude on him. He knows what he wants, and generally it's what ever Cameron has, or what ever i don't want him to have. He is impressively good at football, t-ball and anything that involves balls (of the sporting variety)
He is finally keeping his implants on for the majority of the day, though guarentees to take them off on the trampline and in the car. He also seems to enjoy the chaos that follows him throwing them up over the fence at the back of the garden, or lobbing them somewhere and sitting back watching while we all search the ground for half an hour. I am beginning to think that the bright purple ones would have been a better option.
Appart from a rather perverse sense of humor, James is doing very well with his milestones. He has a new bike that he loves to ride everywhere (including over his sister) and has started doing some very cute imaginary play. He brought Milly's toy duck into the lounge a few days ago, and waved his hand in front of his face saying "Poo! Stinky", then fetched a nappy and tried to put it on the duck. He has started to play WITH Cameron, rather than annoy him (most of the time) and even has a little patience with Milly.
His signing is coming on in leaps and bounds, and is actually helping him to learn to speak better, really giving a hammering to the thoery that teaching children sign with hinder their speach. James will learn the sign for something first, and then within a week he will say the word for it. It's like it flicks a switch in his head by learning the sign, then the vocab follows. He is saying a lot more words now, though i think he is a little behind with his speach. The lovely one is "Tank oo Mum" when ever i give him something, or standing in the kitchen and signing and saying "Toast" then signing and saying "Wait" while it cooks. I love to see Cameron and James signing, as well as hearing the chatter coming out of the pair of them.
Cameron loves signing, and even comes up with his own signing 'jokes' which we have to dutifully laugh at, though usually involve things like 'I love to eat my shoe' He is already passing us in his conceptual signing, and keeps asking us the signs for things that we really don't know. We hear "Well you'll just have to ask Darryl at signing class then won't you!" a lot.
All in all, things are progressing very well. Our next big step is deciding what school we will be sending Cameron too, as i want them all at the same school, and also what a school that will be supportive of the few little extras that come with James. Apparently Paremata School is pretty good with the signing side of things, and i have even been talking to a couple who currently live in Auckland so their son can go to Kelson School, who are keen to try and set up a Bi-lingual class in one of the local schools here. I think that would rock for all the kids, as it will be main stream schooling, just bi-lingual, and i think so many kids would get heaps out of that. We will be working towards that with them over the next while.
That's all for now. I will try and be a little more on to it and update more often, but with three moving, full on kids time is at a premium. I'm lucky to get to pee during the day without company, let along get on the computer. But still, here's hoping...
