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Ali had a great day, got lots of Pixar Cars, ate lots of cup cakes and went to Nandos for some spicy chicken. We even tried Wall-E at the Cinema but the timing was off and he got tired.

You are now two and a half years old and what a journey it has been! We cannot imagine life without you and every day we love you more and more, even though we already love you so much. It seems so long ago that you were a tiny 5 pound 10 ounce baby – now you weigh almost 14 kg and measure 98 cm, almost a meter tall!

For almost two years you slept in our room. We let you climb over to our bed from your cot-bed as you preferred sleeping between us. As you grew bigger and started to demand more space we knew it was time for the move to your own room. After 6 months in your own room you are still not used to sleeping on your own. Some nights you wake 4 or 5 times and other nights once or twice. You?

Ali was 2 today. We got him a big carpark from ELC, and some more Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars. He loves the cars more than the carpark to be honest – but then he is totally car daft. We took him to Mother India’s Cafe for dinner – his favourite food is their Pakora and Chicken Tikka – then back home for cake…

Ali’s 23 months today. He’s still an adorable little rascal. He’s proving elusive to photograph though… the picture below being the best I was able to manage. It doesn’t help that one of my 1GB microdrives is knackered and the other reports itself as 3.8GB. Still, I got there in the end, with a picture to prove it.

Ali loves to play on the slides at the park. The big ones. He’s also got a thing for climbing, crossing rope bridges, and anything else that makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. He’s fearless, I’m not. Zee filmed him playing at the park recently using her Nokia Phone.