fads

Duncan is a real fad person - he gets it from his mother. Fads can last from a few days to a few weeks, months, years. I'm getting like it as well. (I've somehow inherited my 'opposite heart burn' problem from my mother-in-law too so we have been known to compare notes on symptoms and remedies).

You may have noticed that I had a short lived fad a few weeks ago for blogging every day or so. I am sorry it did not last long. I think about it often - especially when Eden has another 'first'. I don't have a baby book like my mum had for me so I feel a duty to record somewhere the wee milestones.

On that note, lets get Eden's 'firsts' out of the way. Bullet points I think shall suffice:

* The Einstein look went last week with his first hair cut. I just snipped a few bits but then got a bit carried away... Please email me if you want before and after photos as Duncan says it is too complicated for me to put them in here...

* We have been having a taste of solids once a day since Monday last week; baby rice, kumara and new today: pumpkin. It has started off as being a bit of a game but I think we're getting the hang of it.

* Head discovered - pulled his hat off this morning for the first time.

* 'Button pressing' I'll call it. Last week was the first time he visibly touched banged, pressed bits on toys to get a sound out of them.

* He got himself in the giggles (he smiles a huge lot but doesn't laugh very often at all) a couple of nights ago, we think with the peekaboo thing. But it has been a oncer since then. He seems to only get giggly when he is very tired.

* Wore his first pair of jeans on Sunday (got on TradeMe for $1 fab). (Who would imagine that the seller was in the street where Duncan works - easy + no postage!)

* First time in the new car seat yesterday. Jolly jolly pain though. He is too big for a capsule one but too small to be forward facing so we have to thread him through this jungle gym of anchoring straps to get him in or out!

* For those who like a bit of stats, he is 8.3 kilos now and is in the 75th percentile for everything (according to plunket of course).

* He is now choosing to sit balanced upright or leaning forward to play with a toy instead of leaning against whatever is behind him. Can't trust him yet not to fall backwards at some point though.

* If he drops a toy now, he will feel around for it and pick it up again rather than it being as if it doesn't exist anymore.

Right, that's enough for now. He is still a very happy and settled little boy. He is in pretty much the same routine that we came to when he was about 9 weeks old (through parental coaching and his own habits). During the day he is generally up for 1 - 2 hours then sleeps for 1 - 2 hours unless I keep him awake longer because we are out and about. So that's either 2 or 3 sleeps during the day. We then put him to bed around dinner time, get him up just before we are going to bed and give him a feed, then he sleeps until 5:30/6:00am. We are trying to do everything a bit later this week anticipating daylight saving (4:30am waking does not appeal) so we'll see how that goes - I'll keep you posted.

I have to say that in the last wee while (since Duncan came back from Canada) there has not been one occasion where he has cried when he has been put into bed. He has always enjoyed the bye bye ceremony - even when he was first smiling, bed time gave me the most smiles. We have a song, a giggle, blow raspberries, sometimes a prayer etc. I don't think I'll ever know what triggers the odd occasion when he is grumpified - you always just guess and put it down to something or just shrug your shoulders and think "oh well, crying will tire him out sooner or later."

Must stop - we're getting onto stream-of-consciousness prose so I'll quit it (see my English 101 was good for something...)