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Hugo Eating Cooking Mixture From Beater

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Hugo loves to help Claire when she is cooking, he stands up on a chair and mixes ingredients together, passes different utensils around and generally has a blast.

One thing Hugo loves more than assisting with the cooking process itself, is eating the fruits of its labour – sometimes before the cooking is even complete. When Claire bakes Jude’s kiwi crisps, which have dark chocolate in them – we will without a doubt hear ‘little taste’ from Hugo as he gestures towards the diced chocolate.

On this particular afternoon, Hugo had finished eating his dinner and Claire had been cooking. I don’t remember what it was precisely, however we thought Hugo might like to try his hand at licking a beater – raging success!

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Hugo Knocking Down Sand Castles

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Hugo and I visit a park close to our house regularly and take a few toys to play with while we’re over there, such as a bouncy ball, bucket with spade and accompanying rake.

Normally we’ll dig in the sand, build up mini-mountains of dirt and generally have a riot getting dirty. A while ago I showed Hugo that when we fill the bucket right up, we can flip it over fast and start making sand castles. It isn’t a new trick for him now but he is still impressed with the feat, often letting out a “wow!”.

I just need to convince him to let me build a few of them, so we can start building up!

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Hugo Helping Mow The Lawn

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Hugo helping mow the lawn with toy plastic mowerThis afternoon Claire mentioned on facebook that she loves watching Hugo and I do things together, in this instance it was Hugo helping me mow the lawn.

A friend asked if Claire had a photo and I was going to link to an old post of this photo but for the life of me, I can’t find it – so I apologise if I’ve posted this before.

This is an old photo taken in April 2010, so Hugo was just a little fella then and Evie wasn’t born yet – seems like a lifetime ago already!

Hugo Cooking

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Hugo using the electric beater to mix pikelet mixtureHugo loves to be involved, it doesn’t matter what we’re doing; it could be gardening, vacuuming or grocery shopping -he just loves it.

One of his new favourite things to do is help Claire when she is cooking or baking. We need only say the word ‘cooking’ and Hugo will go and drag one of the dining room chairs over to the bench and stand up in anticipation!

So far Hugo has helped with pikelets and chocolate chip biscuits. He has learned a few skills of the trade as well, he can help crack eggs, is great at holding measuring spoons, knows how to ‘tap’ measuring spoons and cups to empty them out, can stir with a wooden spoon but most of all he loves to use the electric beater.

Like any good cook, he also appreciates tasting throughout the whole process!

Hugo The Bowerbird

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Hugo Lattimore sleeping on carpet hoarding treasures like a bowerbirdSince Hugo was a baby, he has had a little bull plush toy named Boris.

Originally, Boris was just a sleeping aid for bed time but little bit by little bit was allowed out of his cot until Hugo took Boris everywhere with him around the house & in the car.

When Hugo upgraded from the cot to a big boy bed, we noticed a peculiar behaviour – he wanted to bring other things with him into bed such as a favourite toy car.

Now that Hugo can get out of bed, he regularly selects favourite items from around his bedroom to have in his bed with him at night time. At the moment those toys are a pink money box pig, a plastic container with a bunch of cotton reels and string, a wooden toy bus and a plastic motorcycle police officer.

Hugo also gets out of bed at night time and sleeps by the door of his bedroom on the carpet. Before the new behaviour started, it was just Hugo and Boris – however now that he has treasures, they have to come to!