We had a visit from your two youngest uncles and your oldest aunt this month. Tom, Harvey and Paige came to stay, and boy was it a shock for both you and I. You definitely weren't prepared for how much noise two young boys make, and you ended up in tears on a few occasions. And I was certainly not prepared for the amount of mess that they can make! They trashed the front room, and almost flooded the bathroom by simply having a shower! But I suppose I should get used to it because you're probably going to be exactly the same. It did make me certain that one of you is just enough for now too!
We also paid a visit to Milton Keynes this month, and Grandad Mark and Uncle Mark were both up there too, so you got to spend time with that whole side of the family. Uncle Jack absolutely adores you, and is so proud of everything you do, so it's really touching to see him interact with you.
We also visited a few indoor play areas, and although we haven't found one that's particularly suitable for your age just yet, I think you're going to love them when you're older.
We also had a brand new addition added to your future gang of pals, in the form of Mr Lucas Lei Blunt! After a very tough labour, Aunt Dawn gave birth to him on the 6th November 2011, and we went to visit him six days later. He was absolutely tiny, and I just can't believe looking at you now, that you were ever that small, yet Dawny assures me you were. Because of how hefty you are now, holding him actually made me anxious, and it felt as though there wasn't anything in my arms. Funny how you forget things as little as six months afterwards, and looking at him shows how remarkably you've developed too.
I have also given in to incessant nagging and taken up driving lessons this month. Constant badgering from the girls and your father means that I'm going to throw myself into it as much as possible. So far I have had two lessons, and apparently my instructor says I'm quite good at it. Between you and me, I feel like I'm winging it. We'll see how it goes.
We have also encountered your second injury of your lifetime, and guess who was to blame again...
You are almost grown out of your electronic swinging chair, so I decided to buy you a miniature bean bag chair for you to sit in. Obviously, at your size now, we have to help you stay seated in it, but when you grow you'll be able to sit in it unsupported. On your very first occasion of sitting in it, your dad was stupidly left in charge of you. Being too interested in the TV, your father left you to your own devices, and you fell forward head first on to the floor. I jumped up and started going ballistic, only for him to remark that he had hit your head off the doorframe when you were weeks old, and the impact had been harder than that! I have a feeling that your father is going to receive some serious injury over the coming years, as a result of him being a little too careless with you for my liking.
Finally, the last big event of this month is me completing your nursery. It took a good long while, and some serious effort, but it is preety amazing, even if I say so myself. And I will also point out to you that your father did absolutely nothing to hepl as he is a lazy old fart. True story.. I'll include a few photos so you can see all of my efforts yourself:
Although you may end up having the same bedroom when you're sixteen, because I'll be buggered if I'm doing all that again.
This month has made me feel more in tune with you, as you are becoming more clear with your actions and intentions. However, at the same time, I feel that you are becoming more frustrated, as there are things that you want to do, but aren't quite ready to. You are bored of your toys, and the general things that we do on a day to day basis, but you are too lazy to make the moves to be physically ready to do new things. You are sitting up like a pro now, but you still throw yourself back when you realise, which makes it a hazard to leave you up without support. You're also very frustrated at rolling onto your front with no further action, but you still won't put yourself into a position to move. Lazy boy!
This month has also seen an improvement in the way of you doing the thing that you don't do that we don't discuss when you do it in case we jinx it (sleeping, shh). Over the last week of the month we have had five nights out of seven when you did it, and we couldn't be any happier! We're hoping that this might be the start of good times, but we never know with you. You like to give us a little teaser every so often, and then whip any dream we have away, so I won't hold my breath just yet!
You've become a bag of noise this month, and we have some real fun interactions with you now. There is some real babbling, where you are really telling us something, and this will occasionally be interspersed with 'dada' at every other babble. As much as we all try to encourage to say something, anything else, you ignore us like we're a bunch of invalids, so I can't see any change coming just yet. The other less cute new noise is displayed when you have the smallest hump with anything. It's a growl. It literally sounds like a badger on the defensive, and you won't shut up until we give in to whatever it is that you want. The growl has got to go Olly, or you are going to rack up the grounded days from now onwards!
You've also developed quite a sweet little evening routine with your father. You'll both have a bath together, and splash around like a pair of kids, and once you're both dressed, you settle down on the sofa and be happily entertained by The Simpsons. There's not a programme that captures your interest as much, which works out quite well for your father, as it means he gets to watch it. We all know who's the boss of the remote control otherwise.
With regards to food, we moved onto the next stage of your weaning this month, with no hiccups whatsoever. We've now introduced things such as pasta and rusks, fish such as cod, haddock and plaice, and meats such as chicken, beef and lamb. You're still wolfing down everything, which is fantastic, so kindly keep it up!
Love Mum xxx
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