It was my first day back at work, and quite a chaotic bye bye to Baby D before leaving home. With five minutes before the target leaving time, I was changing his diaper and trying to throw in some air time too. Baby D was getting increasingly cranky, as it was very near his nap time, so he didn't send his mamma off with a kiss but turned away irritably in nani's arms. I then started my scooter, something I haven't done in the past four years, and drove for fifty minutes to get to work, with the traffic making me extremely nervous.
When I returned home, Baby D resolutely ignored me, pretending to be engrossed in his "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" book. He relented soon enough and tried to eat my dust encrusted nose, which I let him. We had a loud and lively play time with Daddy D joining in too. Baby D made spirited swipes at mamma's wine glass and showed every sign of staying up until midnight to wish us a happy new year. Thankfully for his very exhausted parents, he did settle in to sleep, with only the mildest of fights, by 10:30.
And now I can recount his activities during the past few days. For Baby D the flavour of the week has been definitely about movement. He'd like to be on the go and is finding a variety of ways to do that including lying on his back and twisting and sliding. Baby D now rolls over effortlessly and is beginning to push himself up on his knees. As he hasn't figured out that he needs to push himself up on his arms as well, his crawl is not very effective yet. But he does manage to army crawl and even move a bit if he can find something to push against.
Baby D is getting increasingly assertive too, yelling at us to do his bidding. It does help that he has expanded his vocabulary considerably over the past few weeks. He's known to say a full sentence - "Kill Bill" and words like "heckle". One does wonder where he is going with this. At times he sounds like Joey in F.R.I.E.N.D.S speaking "French" - "blah blah blah blue ble ble ble". It is to be hoped that "blah" isn't a comment on our upbringing! And the sweetest of all - " mum um mum mum". I always respond with a "yes I am your mum" and it begins to look like he does mean it when he says "mum um mum mum".
And to end the year on a high note - Baby D the hater of baths, has now decided he loves it! Where he actively used to cry the moment his feet touched water, he now paddles his legs furiously in the air asking to be put immediately in the tub. Once in, he tries to grab the mug, which is about the same size as him, in order to take his own bath. If that is refused, he's quite content to sit in the water trying to grab at fish and crab and octopus and turtle, all of the wildlife that has made its squirty way into the tub. But water itself is a great plaything. After months of cajoling by mommy to try splashing, Baby D has now conceded mommy was right after all. So he sits there batting and splashing, until we tell him firmly that bath time is up. We are seriously considering getting rain coats for Baby D's bath time if his splashing enthusiasm doesn't wane anytime soon.
There's a lot of exciting milestones to be achieved in the new year and Baby D can't wait to get started.
When I returned home, Baby D resolutely ignored me, pretending to be engrossed in his "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" book. He relented soon enough and tried to eat my dust encrusted nose, which I let him. We had a loud and lively play time with Daddy D joining in too. Baby D made spirited swipes at mamma's wine glass and showed every sign of staying up until midnight to wish us a happy new year. Thankfully for his very exhausted parents, he did settle in to sleep, with only the mildest of fights, by 10:30.
And now I can recount his activities during the past few days. For Baby D the flavour of the week has been definitely about movement. He'd like to be on the go and is finding a variety of ways to do that including lying on his back and twisting and sliding. Baby D now rolls over effortlessly and is beginning to push himself up on his knees. As he hasn't figured out that he needs to push himself up on his arms as well, his crawl is not very effective yet. But he does manage to army crawl and even move a bit if he can find something to push against.
Baby D is getting increasingly assertive too, yelling at us to do his bidding. It does help that he has expanded his vocabulary considerably over the past few weeks. He's known to say a full sentence - "Kill Bill" and words like "heckle". One does wonder where he is going with this. At times he sounds like Joey in F.R.I.E.N.D.S speaking "French" - "blah blah blah blue ble ble ble". It is to be hoped that "blah" isn't a comment on our upbringing! And the sweetest of all - " mum um mum mum". I always respond with a "yes I am your mum" and it begins to look like he does mean it when he says "mum um mum mum".
And to end the year on a high note - Baby D the hater of baths, has now decided he loves it! Where he actively used to cry the moment his feet touched water, he now paddles his legs furiously in the air asking to be put immediately in the tub. Once in, he tries to grab the mug, which is about the same size as him, in order to take his own bath. If that is refused, he's quite content to sit in the water trying to grab at fish and crab and octopus and turtle, all of the wildlife that has made its squirty way into the tub. But water itself is a great plaything. After months of cajoling by mommy to try splashing, Baby D has now conceded mommy was right after all. So he sits there batting and splashing, until we tell him firmly that bath time is up. We are seriously considering getting rain coats for Baby D's bath time if his splashing enthusiasm doesn't wane anytime soon.
There's a lot of exciting milestones to be achieved in the new year and Baby D can't wait to get started.
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