Another week has flown by, and Puff has learned a thing or two.
Last Wednesday, Puff (and Mum) came into the city to have lunch with Dad. It’s quite a different experience to having lunch with an adult: there’s a lot more to do to make sure he’s eaten everything, and not quite so much catching up with the adult.
Though different, it certainly makes the day go more quickly, and some of Dad’s new workmates were happy to make Puff’s acquaintance.
He also managed a trip down towards the Quay to visit our friend Adam. Here he is relaxing in front of the sandstone.
One thing that Mum has taught him this week is how to take magnets off the fridge, and put them back on. This isn’t necessarily something that lends itself easily to photography, but I think you get the idea.
A visit to see friends who have a big backard (and 4 kids) led to a couple of new experiences. The one he enjoyed was sitting on a trampoline (with Dad only very slightly out of the frame of this photo) – he wasn’t quite sure what to make of it, but he was certainly happy.
The one he enjoyed less was trying to move around in the grassy backyard: He hadn’t had much to do with grass before, and despite a few tries, he seemed more intent on lifting his hands up and away from the grass, and starting to cry until removed from the situation. The next day, Dad tried a few more approaches with grass, and he seemed a bit happier. This is a pitfall with having a birthday just after winter – a lot of the learning to move around takes place indoors, to stay out of the cold. Rest assured that Puff will have a lot more time spent outdoors on grass in the future.
With many of Puff’s playgroup contemporaries starting to walk around, we’ve been trying to give him more opportunities to be upright, if he wants to be: an inverted bucket has been good for this purpose:
Further developments in eating have also taken place: he’s been eating more and more tricky food by hand. Only two attempts before this video, the peas were rolling back out of his mouth: by the time the camera was out, he had figured out how to eat them: we also show his newly learned association of the word “Yay!” with clapping his hands.