But how to stop? I feel I'm moving with DS's interests: he LIKES me counting how many times I throw him in the air, he grabs a book and "reads" to himself, he runs to the piano to have a play... I've said that as he attends Nursery then I'm not enrolling him in any classes, bad enough that he has to be in a National Curriculum already without adding to it! He loves drawing and playing ball with Daddy. And without pointing out letters, colours, animals, cars etc on our walks I don't know what to chat about any more. When he was little I could just chat and it was all language, now I have to take it to his level because he understands some things (such as "Oooh look, a doggie. Doggie is white.") and not others (such as "There is a dog. A dog is a quadruped, meaning four legs. That comes from the Latin: quad for four and ped for foot. The dog has a coat of fur. That coat is white, but beneath the coat the skin is a different colour.").

The German is because I am learning (very slowly!) and his Godmother is Austrian so it is most likely we'll spend holidays in Austria in the future, so he'll need to know some of the language. Oh yes, we'll be teaching him skiing at some point in the future too, but only if he enjoys it. If not, we can still build snowmen and go for sleigh rides.