20 months

Timmy is 20 months now. He is walking very well - even running pretty well. He also started talking a lot more. Right now his absolute favourite word is 'hat' in Russian. It is pronounced шапка (shapka), but he says it as _ к_апка (kapka), which sounds very cute. In fact he is so excited about this word that he manages to make conversations about it even when they seem like a very odd topic to talk about. For example he'd be sitting at the dinner table and suddenly will put both hands on his head and ask questioningly "Hat?!"... and so then we'd talk about how he doesn't have a hat on right now, but that he would wear one when we go outside. He also turned into a bit of a hat police. If for some reason I take off my beanie outside he'd stop walking and keep saying 'hat' until I put it back on. He also yells 'hat' at other random people on the street who walk around hatless :)

He is also fond of similar sounding words like 'porridge' (кашка) or 'slippers' (тапки). He says да (yes) very well, and uses the German nein for negation. Another cute thing he says is Daddy, because he makes a tiny pause between 'Da' and 'dy'... actually I think we find anything he says cute, so that's probably just our fate as parents.

For new years our little man got play doh and needless to say he is very excited about it. We've been playing with it together and it made me realise that I actually really like playing with it, too. So I made a christmas tree and a blue cat :)

A few months back we got Tim a little toy kitchen courtesy of eBay. Judging from his love for it, he might just end up being a professional chef when he grows up. He just loves "cooking" on it and especially loves little pots and pans. While we have the christmas tree up, we're continuing a childhood tradition of mine, where kids get a little present from Ded Moroz every morning put under the tree while it's standing. So Timmy has been getting heaps of toy cutlery and various food-related toy items.

Latest photos...

This is a link to a video of Tim with his friend Ilja playing peekaboo.

And one more video of a day Tim got up on the coffee table and started dancing :)

I'll leave you with this photo of Tim that somehow to me resembles the guy from A Clockwork Orange :)