Yesterday Dylan decided he was going to wear big boy pants and since then he has only worn nappies for sleeping. He is doing very well at using his potty and the toilet although we have also had quite a few accidents.

In other news, Dylan is excited about having a baby brother or sister and keeps kissing Mummy's tummy.

Dylan likes 'upside-down skippity-skip' (being held upside down by a skipping person), 'whoa' (being held overhead by a person who runs and then falls onto a mattress), 'one-two-three' (being thrown up in the air on the count of three), 'hide Dylan' (having a duvet thrown over his head), and 'pulleys' (riding around on a duvet while it is pulled over a carpet, especially over a step) - all in that order, each night before going to bed.

Dylan feels that 'Green Eggs and Ham' is an ambiguous title and therefore calls the book 'Green Eggs and Green Ham'. Otherwise, the ham might seem to be a colour other than green.

Dylan observed that the unnamed character is 'happy, not sad anymore' when at last he eats green eggs (and green ham).

If Dylan disagrees with something you say he politely corrects you and then puts 'I think' at the end of the sentence.

So today he asked what something was and Matt told him it was a fig roll. Dylan corrected him - 'It's a biscuit, I think.'

(In British English a fig roll is a type of biscuit.)

Dylan supported England in France.

On our way back to England, Dylan had his face painted.

Dylan and Sam played on a water slide at our house.

Martinez Boys' Club (North Finchley Branch)

Here you go, Kitty.

In this video, Dylan offers his Baba to Kitty for sleeping with.

Trip to France.

In France Dylan's water tunnelling behaviour began to resemble a reflex action, with neural pathways built to make endorphins. Whenever Daddy tried to carry Dylan past a favourite water slide, Dylan would struggle unthinkingly to climb it, like a heroin addict.

These French slides are big like the ones in Manteca, California. Dylan went down a particularly huge slide eight times in a row, insisted on going alone the ninth time, hurt his leg, and then waited an entire fifteen minutes before recovering to make a tenth trip. He was not in control of himself; the endorphins controlled him.

Later, in a hotel room, Daddy told Mommy that he knew how to open the window because he is American. (In France and America people use the same kind of window.) Dylan overheard Daddy and said, 'I'm American, too!' We had not recently discussed Dylan's nationality with him and were surprised he was aware of it.