The Cattell Family

December 2005

We cannot believe Benjamin is 20 months old. He is growing up so fast. He is now 32 inches tall and weighs 22.5 pounds. This month has brought lots of new developments in Benjamins speech and he has added lots of new words - Mummy (finally!!), Christmas, dinner, outside, garden and hammer, amongst others.

He is becoming a lot more independent, wanting to feed himself and walk everywhere on his own. We have also noticed him taking a lot more interest in other children and actually trying to play with them. He is still a softie though and never complains when a toy is taken from him by another child.

Other not so great things this month have been a bout of Croup, 2 colds, night wakings and a few small tantrums. Nothing that is not easily dissolved at the moment, but we can see our little man is very determined!