Ezra Growing

It shocks me every day how quickly Ezra is growing, it was literally like he went from a baby to a toddler within a couple of days. I am so proud of who Ezra is, how brave he is and how most of the time he is just so easily entertained. You can leave him to play by himself and he just won't get bored. He sleeps like an angel, he comes and cuddles you and tells you he loves you every night before he goes to sleep and sometimes even calls you back in his room, just for another kiss. He learns things without you even having to teach him - he can count from 1-10, knows loads of colours, can catch a ball, knows the words to a million songs and he has the best manners. Obviously being a 2-nearly-3 year old we do have the occasional or daily tantrums but I try and see them as a growing/learning show and try and encourage him out of screaming for his own way.

Yesterday marks 1 year since Ezra broke his leg on a slide and today you wouldn't even know anything had even happened. For the people who don't know, a couple months before Ezra's 2nd birthday we took him to the park and his Dad took him on a slide which had a bump in the middle, as they went over the bump Ezra's leg got caught in between his Dad's legs and he had a clean break across his shin basically. I feel so sad that my baby had to go through this but he was so brave, the cast didn't bother him and even though he wasn't supposed to walk on it - he did and he didn't care about the pain or the fact that it was awkward to walk, he just did it and he made it so easy to deal with. I think perhaps I'm still quite cautious about him with his leg, for long journeys he stays in the buggy and he is quite clumsy and tries to run faster than his legs can go so he ends up falling over a lot. I've never broken a bone but I imagine it to be very painful so how my 1 year old dealt with it just amazed me. After his cast came off his leg was facing sideways a little and he walked really odd, but after a while it went back to normal by itself and now he walked completely normal again!!

Ezra is coming to the age where he will soon be starting nursery, and although I am rather excited for this - I'm not sure Ezra will be. He has always been with me, and a lot of the time just me so when I have to leave him with a completely stranger I think he will either get really upset, or hopefully notice all the other kids and want to go and join in (wishful thinking.) He doesn't like sharing that much, most days we have the problem of him not sharing with Amelia, so hopefully at nursery he will be able to learn how to be better with that. He can be quite a copy cat - if Amelia starts saying something normally he will follow, in some cases this can be rather cute but in other cases it can be very annoying haha.

I sometimes forget how hard it is to raise little ones, no matter how sweet and loving and perfect they are, we all get stressed when the tantrums don't stop, or potty training isn't going to well, or they go through a stage of not wanting to eat anything that you make for them. Amelia is so independent now - but Ezra is still at the stage of life where he has so much to learn and I love how much Amelia encourages him! She really does do so much for her little brother! And most of the time they act like the best-est friends. I remember dreaming of having another child so Amelia would have a play mate - just goes to show how dreams can come true :)