Dominik began to walk. He has already started doing the first steps about a month ago, but now he can walk longer, he tries it more often and he enjoys it more than crawling. Olivia likes to hold his hand and to walk with him and every time I pick him up, she reminds me that I can put him down because he is able to walk alone. Beside walking, he likes climbing the stairs, sliding and he can ride his toddler balance bike and he has already learned to control it.
Our small dark tan Dominik with blond hair and dark eyes is one year old. A week ago I would write that he is toothless, but now I discovered two teeth on the right side (not in the front as usual), and if another two same teeth grow on the other side, he will look like a vampire :). He likes walking and pushing a chair and he is able to push it even when Olivia sits on it.
Dominik is in that wonderful age when everything fascinates him and when he sees something new (i.e. the cows in the stable) he is able to watch it intently with a wide-open mouth. He also points his finger at everything, he likes playing with a ball (he tries to throw it over himself stretching his arms out or he rolls it enthusiastically through a Lego tunnel), he spents a lot of time in Olivia’s kitchen and he is fascinated by everything that does something i.
Dominik stands wherever possible, he stands up even though there is nothing to hold. And then he tries to get back down on the floor and he doesn’t like when he fells down. He likes playing in the sand and examining our garden and I’m very pleased that he doesn’t put everything he finds in his mouth anymore. On Olivia’s request, they sleep together in one room and it seems like they both enjoy it.
Olivia is already a big girl and she’s going to school. In the morning, she’ll play there and she’ll learn to write, because she can already read and in the afternoon mommy picks her up. She keeps saying everyone that she is three years old and she shows on her fingers how much it is. We celebrated twice; once privately with a creamy berry cake and an easel and once with Olivia’s four friends (2.
When she was as old as he she could already stand up, but she could wear the trousers he wears now when she was a little bit over a year. I find it generally interesting to watch them, how different they are. This year, Olivia actively helped to make her magical fairy costume for a carnival.
That’s a question that I occasionally can’t answer or I simply don’t know what Olivia tries to ask me. She asks everything; who said what, how the things work, where is what and she also invents her own theories and enjoys them. And when she talks to Dominik, he enthusiastically responds “ba ba ba” and then Olivia tells us what Dominik wants :) It’s been about a week since our over ten kilo Dominik has moved.
This winter was somehow too short and now it looks again as in the springtime. We tried our best to make the most of it. Olivia tried to remember what the tobogganing is and Dominik trained it as well. Beside this, Olivia enjoyed the evenings of fairy tales, she began to “read” as others and she talks only about going to school.
Last month we did some Christmas craft. Olivia paints enthusiastically, she likes making handprints (Dominik joined us as well and the brush tickled him so much :)), cutting the paper and gluing. So we did something creative every day and it looked somehow like this :)
