Ah Hoody, 5-6 times a month - my DP would be in heaven!!

Sorry I've been so absent, I keep popping in, intending to write, then something (or someone) drags me away and it doesn't happen. So if no-one minds the lack of proper personals, except to say I do think about you guys and love to hear how you are all doing, (oh, and welcome to MummyMelz too!!), then I'll update you on how monster boy is doing.

Eating: almost anything. From being a little fussy and giving it up for a while, he now devours whatever I shovel into his gaping maw. Except pumpkin by itself. Still on mashed vegies and fruit only, avocado and banana the outright favourite, going to try meat sometime in the next week or so. Waiting till 9 months to try pasta/wheaten stuff.

Teething: we finally have a tooth!! After five months of teething, one has come through - we have a razor sharp little pointy thing which has not yet made its acquaintance with my nipple, thank goodness. The other one is obviously not far behind as he is still chewy and drooly.

Moving: not crawling, as such, but has this abstract (and quite complicated when you think about it) method of locomotion which involves pulling himself onto hands and knees, then onto bum, then rolling sideways back onto hands and knees, crawling backwards a few steps or sometimes even forwards, then repeating the whole thing and spinning around the room like a weird ungainly top. It works for him, but although I've told him that crawling would actually be much simpler as he could get from A to B without having to travel the entire alphabet in between, he won't have a bar of it.

He is pulling himself up onto things and thinks that he's oh so clever for doing so. He can pull himself to squatting, but only to standing if the object he's pulling himself up with is low enough. I reckon he might be cruising before he crawls...

Vital statistics: Boofhead. Dunno about weight and height but he's big and strong and beats his mother up. DB, I laughed about Caden being an alpha bub - I think Euan has those tendencies too. He just beats all the other babies at mum's group up though. He likes to poke them in the eyes. I can see him turning into one of those kids who steals the other kids' lunch money and gives them all wedgies.

Talking: in the last few days this kid just won't shut up. Dunno where he gets it from.
Possibly because his grandma is here he has a captive audience who doesn't spend her days at the computer. But for whatever reason he has been incredibly talkative lately. He wakes in the night to have a chat with the walls.

Should go, his lord and mastership is calling...