As hot as it was yesterday I had Yannick out in the garden in the paddling pool - butt naked.

We splashed about a little to cool off then he started playing with some toy and I went into the kitchen. Five minutes later he came in and said 'there's poopoo'. Oh? Poopoo? Bird poopoo? Cat poopoo?

I went out with him and asked 'where', he said 'there'. I still didn't see anything and believed it must be some animal poopoo. I asked again and finally after some finger pointing I managed to spot the tiny heap of poopoo in a corner on the patio, together with a little puddle. This time he said 'done poopoo' and after a little break 'I think?' which made me smile.

What is a mother to do? I can't tell him off as he actually told me he did it - normally he never says anything. In any case it wasn't difficult to clean up - much better than in a nappy!!! And maybe he's finally getting more aware of his bodily functions which is a vital step to start potty training at some point. So, actually, well done, Yannick!

I've seen this meme on Megan's blog and since I like everything photos I thought I could do this one too.

Go on, have a go yourself - here are the instructions:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.

1. What is your first name? Sylke
2. What is your favorite food? Yogurt
3. What high school did you go to? Lutherschule Hannover
4. What is your favorite color? Green
5. Who is your celebrity crush? Johnny Depp
6. Favorite drink? Water
7. Dream vacation? Cape Town
8. Favorite dessert? Ice cream
9. What you wanted to be when you grow up? Happy
10. What do you love most in life? Being a mother
11. One Word to describe you? Impatient
12. Your flickr name? sylkeweb

This might be a bit of TMI for some of you, but I don't care, this needs posting!

F I N A L L Y - we've managed to stop: Yannick has been weaned. At the grand old age of 26 months! His last drink of mummy's milk was on the morning of 1 July.

My days as a toddler feeding weirdo are over. YES!

However, I do not regret that we went on with this as long as we did - and there was certainly nothing weird about it all as it was just a natural progression. He was just too addicted to falling asleep at the boob (lucky little boy!!!) and would have not understood why we stopped if we did that any earlier. At this age I was able to tell him that mummy's milk needs to rest too and bit by bit he has learned since we were back from Germany that he can fall asleep without his favourite dummy.

There is one big drawback actually: now it is really hard to get him to sleep during the day so I think our days with nice longs naps are over too. Well, you can't have your cake and eat it.