Today Is Important

I forgot to publish this yesterday!!! So its actually a dya later than LOs 21 month birthday...

My little one turns 21 months today. I think it is a special day and there are a number of reasons for this. He now has just a quarter left before he turns 2 years old which is surely a major milestone. These three months are extremely vital for the two of us for various reasons:

·         I plan to wean him off the breast before his birthday.

·         I would like to have atleast started some aspects of potty training before his birthday.

·         This summer I need to make a number of important decisions about his nursery and school.

For these three reasons, I think today is an important day.

Another reason is that from today onwards I plan to become more organized in my approach to the LO’s learning and development needs. It has been around three months since I started doing Montessori activities with him at home. However, till now it has been very unorganized, irregular and unsystematic. I have not been doing the activities everyday and have not been making any notes about my observations. Bad, bad, bad!!!

Even before my LO was born, I had started recording tit bits about my pregnancy so that I would always remember the beautiful experience of having him inside me. After he was born, I used to write little notes about the highlights of everyday, about where we went, what we did and so on. I recorded every detail of his guests and his gifts and also his step-by-step process of eating solids. I continued making notes when he started sitting, rolling, crawling and so on. However, somewhere after his first birthday I became lax in my record-keeping and I do repent it!!!

I have not yet written the dates when he started walking, about the teething stages, his first words and so on. I do remember a few things, and maybe pictures will help me recollect some more, and I really should start writing it all up soon, else I will forget everything!!! I did start his scrapbook sometime back, but after 3-4 pages, I did not continue. So a lot of pending work to be done.

However, while I plan to continue writing about the past, I really want to focus on the present and future. From now on, I promise to be more systematic with the recordkeeping!!!

Happy Birthday...