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Milo

Toddlers - are they babies? Are they children? Are they HUMAN???!Milo has discovered his nostrils (ie. 'nose hole' according to his dad). He is quite obsessed with sticking his finger in there and digging.The first time I saw him doing this I thought it was rather cute. Now I'm worried the constant digging will enlarge a rather quaint lubang...Why do children do this? It's like it puts them in some kind of transcendental state, or something! He could be watching Higgly Town Heroes on the telly or eating his dinner and suddenly plop!, in goes one finger and no matter what you do to try and distract him, he's right in there!It's downright embarassing in polite company.We've started training him for his move to the Big Bed weeks ago....(so we can put the new baby in his old cot)...it's been going ok...last night he actually only got up once from the bed and stood outside our bedroom door. It's really sweet: Milo will sneak out of bed, pad softly with his moose-bear trailing behind him and just stand outside our semi closed door. If we ignore him, he'll quietly look around the door. Then we'll get up and gently tell him to go back to bed,...he'll run back into his room giggling, but this'll happen at least 4 more times before we place him back in the cot for the night. That's why we're so proud he made it a full night in the Big Bed! What a milestone! What a big boy! When I think back to the day he was born, how small he was, mewling like a kitten, it breaks my heart (in a good way) to see him so big and independent...pretty soon he'll start proper school and wear a uniform! Awww! Some days I want to keep him a baby forever, and when he's being difficult, I wish he were older and someone you can actually reason with. In my heavily pregnant state, I'm not exactly a picture of Patience on a Monument, if you get my drift. I try though, God help us all.My due date draws very near. It could happen any day now. Wish me luck!