He must have had one. There were these very disturbed and short nights just a short while back and now the child is asking 'why?' and 'why?' every five seconds it seems. In addition to that we also get a lot of 'I want to do that' which we didn't have so much before. A different child.

We are trying to reflect some of the why questions back to Yannick and I think he's slowly realising that he can answer some of them himself. But the constant 'whys' are really getting to me, approximately after 'why' number twenty I can't help but start asking back 'why not?'.

It's so weird, as if he's only just realised that the word 'why' exists. He used to ask 'what's that' and 'how does this work', 'what does this do' and those questions were fine as you got different angles to explain something that way. The 'why' questions seem to be replacing all of those and more. They always seem to be very wide and often we have to ask back simply to find out what exactly he's asking about. Then you are half way through explaining and boom, the next 'why'. Argh.

The 'I want to do that' is a lot less troublesome as I was always hoping for some more initiative from his side on certain things. Now for example he's showing some interest in putting his own shoes on which is good. Sadly, eating doesn't seem to fall under this category. If I want him to eat more than his limited level of patience makes him, I still have to feed him. He's just bored of eating after five minutes and always needs a toy to keep him at the table. It doesn't matter much whether he really likes something or not, food is just not that important.

However, Yannick's English is really coming on now. We were at a friend's place today and he was asking her question about toys which he never did like that before. It's so nice to see how confident he is getting in speaking in his second language. Soon he'll be like a native speaker and outdo me easily!