A couple of photos from this week: we tried him out in his first shopping-centre ride: we sat him down in this fake car. With a bit of encouragement, he stretched his hands out to take the wheel, and then surprised both of us by using the steering wheel to stand himself up!
I was a bit worried about trying him out in this tunnel, but he cheerfully crawled all the way through it!
It seems that it was just a phase for a few days, but his ability to move around and splash in the bath is becoming the stuff of legend. It’s amazing to think that only a few months back he had to be supported all the time while in the bath, and that I was trying to teach him how to splash, ever so slightly, his hands in the water.
High points of new learning this week:
* Puff is making it more and more clear when he doesn’t want to go into his car seat. He is quite strong now – strong enough to arch his back completely with his feet on the seat.
* He’s been feeding himself some new foods – some chicken this time, as well as the rusks, celery and carrot sticks that he’s quite used to
* With his Mum sick, he doesn’t seem to mind being at home all weekend.
* He continues to threaten to learn how to crawl properly, but he seems to have mastered dragging himself around, and is happy enough with this as a means of self-transport
* He’s started to show more interest in his favourite books, and even to try and read them to himself
* He gets very vocally upset if you try to remove a toy from him when he doesn’t think he’s finished with it yet
* His sitting is much more stable – he can be trusted to sit in a shopping trolley seat with minimal supervision