Another week. Puff is asleep in bed, and there’s a brief window to put some blog posts together. The post-work evening routine is well set up. There’s taking Puff to the letterbox “check a may-ul!”, weighing him on the Wii Fit (and then using the Wii Fit to interact with the characters on screen) “poke a baby! poke a cat!”, going outside to practice walking around “grass?… wok wok wok… dad…inside…please-okay”.
This week’s speech development is adding “okay” to the end of everything. When he says grace, it’s “God.. this food… Amen-okay”. When he asks for something, it’s “Dad… grapes… please-okay”. We’re to blame, of course – we were the ones who would say okay after he said please, and so now he’s just trying to save us the effort.
Last week we had a trip over to an old school friend’s house, where we caught up with J, M, and J, A, J and T. Some of the afternoon sun remained when Puff and Dad headed to the backyard to play on the swings, while Kel and M caught up in the backroom (overlooking the backyard). Just after this photo was taken, Dad received an SMS from Kel that simply said “Hat?”. Dad sheepishly retrieved Puff’s hat from his pocket, and put it on Puff’s head.
Another toy that has captured Puff’s imagination this week is his indoor tent. It’s great fun, it would seem, to put toys away by putting them in the tent, whether there’s enough room for Puff or not.
The Grandragon has been down for much of this week for a visit: we made a trip out to Brasserie Bread for some lunch after picking up Grandragon from the airport. Puff had a great time sitting in the cloth high-chair eating grapes, but when he ran out of enthusiasm for that, Dad carried him around to look at people working in the bakery. Puff came up with a new phrase “Makin’ the bread”, which he used with much enthusiasm for the rest of the day, and still invokes from time to time.
On the walking front, while on a trip to Ryde Aquatic Centre, Puff took his first few steps walking in the baby wading pool from Mum to the Grandragon while Dad was at work – Puff has so far refused to replicate this feat on dry land.
When trying to walk inside, he seems happier using his trolley – more and more risks are taken now, with his current preference to hold onto another item while pushing the trolley. here’s a balloon with him in full flight.
And, never forgotten for long, here’s Bear.
Friday night was an attempted dinner at a noodle markets, but there wasn’t much to see, and so we retreated back to the car for takeaway instead. On the positive side, we had the chance to try out the ergo carrier in backpack mode for the first time. Dad didn’t like it much: it seems a little too much like pregnancy – lots of wriggling, but you can’t see the baby.
And on Sunday, Puff met S, N, H and S after a long time praying for them. The highlight of the trip for him was almost certainly the toy oven. Dad – ever cautious around new things – was worried for a while that there may have been some danger of burning, but a stove powered by AA batteries (and in this case, they were not even installed) doesn’t tend to bring much risk of undue heat.
See you next week!