Babies Born July 2005 #16

[Hayseed]

Well, I start on clomid tomorrow. God I hope it works this time round!

I haven't updated on Pup for a bit, so I thought I should share.

He is REALLY moving now. Walking everywhere. He even managed to walk holding onto my hand while down the street on Friday. He would have walked about 25 meters I'd say. But then he got distracted and wanted to crawl on the pavement. I was amazed at all the people looking at him. Isn't it funny about how many people stop and talk to your baby in the street?! (as an aside, we were away last weekend...did I mention that at all??...anyway, while we were in a restaurant, Pup had eaten all his food and a bit of mine and was still fussing a bit. A lady from another table gave us some of her potato chips (hot) for him to munch on! Made me laugh....)

So back to the walking thing. He is now GO GO GO from the time he wakes till the time he goes to sleep. I still have our lounge room cordoned off, so he can run amuck in there and it doesn't matter. This way, I don't have to chase him around the whole house. We went to PIL last night for dinner and SILs and their families were there as well. This was the first time some of them had seen Pup walking. They were amazed at him. My BIL reckons I need to put smaller batteries in him because he is just so full on. He is even sort of running now!

He isn't saying very much more than last reported. The only real clear words are Mooo and No. Occasionally he says Mum, but has never said Dad. But he does noises of things...brrrmmmm for a boat, clicking his tongue for a horse and this strangulated hack for a duck's quack!

He is eating more and more finger food now, as he still will not eat lumps off a spoon...unless it is spaghetti bolognaise. Go figure. Mind you, it is a challenge to come up with interesting little titbits for him, as we eat much later than him, so I am creating a meal just for him rather than just portioning off our meal. He is on 3 milk drinks a day still - the one in the morning is via a cup, but the afternoon and nighttime ones are via bottle. Although when he is in a good mood, I give the arvo one via a straw. He is also still having 2 sleeps a day - 1hr in morning and 2 hrs in afternoon.

I have just retired the last of his 00's clothes. They were some t.shirts and body suits. So he is in 0's and going into 1's...althought the 1's are a bit big, but because he wears cloth nappies, his bum is padded out somewhat and they keep his pants up!

We are headed to the pool on Tuesday for his first swimming lesson. I think I have shamed DH into coming along to take some pictures (of the boy, not me!) Embarrasingly, I had to borrow some togs of my mum as I think mine are all too small. Boo hoo.

Later in the week, we are off to MCHN for monthly weigh and then to mum's group. We missed last month because of a bout of gastro going around (we didn't have it though..phew!) so it will be great to see the kids again. Next week we are finally going to get Pup's 12 month portrait done. I've given up trying to make sure that he doesn't have a bunmp, bruise, scratch, cut etc on his face for the photo. It seems to be a daily occurance lately to get one of those injuries! He had ANOTHER blue with the cat and is sporting scratch marks on either side of his head where the cat grabbed him! This time it was the boy's fault for tormenting the cat!