Sounds like you guys all have chatterboxes. Travis likes to talk but darned if I know what he's saying! I'm sure he is trying to say more words than we can understand, just that he doesn't have all the sounds (still no 's' or 'r' sounds for example) and he often gets some sounds mixed up. Like, he points at the bats flying overhead and says "bap". I feel so bad when I don't know what he means. What do you say when they come out with something that sounds very insightful and look at you expectantly, but you have no idea what they just said or asked?

As for the big boy bed, the thing is the side of our cot is stuck in place and I got sick of having to reach all the way down to pick Travis up when he was crying hysterically but not standing up. I was worried about putting my back out. So when we got the bed, we weren't sure how we'd go about it, but in the end we got him out of the cot when he woke up in the middle of the night one night and lay with him in the bed till he went back to sleep. We did that a few times, then ended up getting him to sleep the same way.

It's a medium height bed and he can get on and off it himself beause it has a trundle underneath that he can put his foot on to boost himself up. I was worried about him falling out because the bed has only a very low side rail thing - only protrudes a couple of centimetres from the matress. But he's never fallen off.

Dr Tal, did you get the permanent marker off B???