Lego and on having a 20 month old!

This is a post I've been meaning to write since Christmas. Our little man got a lot of Duplo sets and is now addicted to building towers and knocking them down again. He got:

- LEGO Duplo zoo from Mama and Daddy
- LEGO Duplo starter set, also from Mama and Daddy along with
- A random box of LEGO Duplo blocks that came free with the above
- LEGO Duplo farm nursery from Nana and Grandad
- LEGO Duplo large brick box from Nana and Grandad
- LEGO Duplo Big Tractor from Uncle Simon and Aunty Nicki

He loves the stuff, calls it 'tower', 'blocks' or 'lego' and particularly likes it when Daddy builds a big tower and then plays around with him before finally letting him knock it down. Here's some Lego snaps from the last month:

Some other thoughts on having a 20 month old (OMG he's 20 months!!!)
- He's chatty, chatty, chatty, learning and repeating words all the time, over Christmas he started stringing two or three words together. Mostly possessive like 'Grandad's chair', 'Willow's tail', Mama's drink' but also 'hot tea hot', 'more cheese' and 'stop's sore' (when I put Sudocrem on his behind).
- He's running around, but also quite clumsy, the last 3 days he's run into door frames and walls at least 4 times, he now knows to go to the fridge and get 'Mr Bump' our cool pack to put on his head :( I am using Arnica Gel and it's like a magic potion to help the bumps fade away.
- He's quite a fussy eater, he knows what he likes - sausages, cheese, toast, fish pie, lasagna, pasta bake, grapes, apples - but also knows what he doesn't like and completely refuses to try it once he's had it once and not liked it, I constantly give him tomatoes, but he never tries them now, he used to love them but not at the moment.
- Favourite toys - Duplo, choo choo train (wooden train set), garage and cars, Percy (green Thomas the Tank engine train), jigsaws, monkey, elephant, cat, Henry doll (made by Granny), T-rex.
- Favourite books - Slinky Malinki's Christmas Crackers (I'm so sad Christmas is over and we've put the book away for another year), Thomas's Busy Day, Hairy Maclary, The Gruffalo, The Tiger Who Came to Tea (he loves pointing at the Daddy), 100 Animals, Wheels on the Bus and many many more!
- Clothes - now properly fitting the 18-24 month stuff - wears a lot of jeans and rugby tops, long sleeve tops from Gap - green with robots, blue with a dinosaur, black with a polar bear - robot pjs, navy cords and little cardigan.
- He loves going for walks in the park. Running around and deciding where he wants to go. We always have to visit the statue in CPP and the pile of acorns (not sure what he'll do when they disappear, but they've been there since October), he loves play parks and will happily go down the slide, he's ok on easy steps but needs help getting up the wooden ladder ones, loves swings again (went through a stage of not liking swinging at all), quite likes the roundabout and will happily sit on the blue plastic dino and watch the other kids running around.
- Independence - he's got a small stubborn streak and is getting particularly naughty at lying on his back to have his nappy changed. When we put him on the change mat (still have it in the cot to stop him from escaping) he now flips over and curls up in a ball. He can be coaxed out of it after a few minutes but changing him is becoming a long process.
- Mummy's boy, he still absolutely loves me over anyone else, it's lovely and I love all the attention but sometimes he can be v v clingy, and gets so upset if I leave the room.