Poppy and a lid
TJ definitely knocks plastic toys together to make a sound. He takes after me, though, and does it in the easiest possible way – using his dummy as a base. He’s already done all this work finding the location of his mouth (aka a fixed point), and the dummy is nice and steady. It works great. Of course he often hits himself in the face, but that’s just another way he takes after me.
Today also features Poppy, who visited today.
Yesterday he said “Maaa” and “Daaa”. “M” and “ah” are recent sounds. I amuse myself by saying, “Mum mum mum mum mum” to him quite often (did this with Louisette, and her first word was “Mum”). It’s clear he know this is a thing, because he was saying “Mmm” to me a lot.
Finally a decent conversationalist
On Monday night, when Louisette was going to bed and we had guests, she waved goodnight – and TJ waved back. Twice. Lately he’ll vocalise displeasure with sounds before going straight to crying which is pretty awesome. I can distinguish in an instant between pleased and unhappy raspberries.
He’ll also have a full dramatic conversation by himself – happy, then becoming distressed, then resolving whatever-it-was himself and being happy again. It’s funny how different he and Louisette are already. She never ever did that.
Last Bath
This is either the last or the second-last time TJ has a bath in a specific baby bath. He’s getting too big, so it’s going to someone else this weekend. Louisette loves it when he gets into the big bath with her.
Big Sister
Louisette still sees it as a treat to hold TJ, and will ask to hold him only once or twice a week. TJ trusts her now (he has good reason to – she’s very gentle and caring), so it’s very handy!
Hide and Seek
TJ LOVES to play peek-a-boo with a towel, and is clever enough and coordinated enough to cover and reveal his own face.
Outside
TJ is starting to be able to put his dummy back in his mouth (sometimes). He’s been pretty successful for a while when the dummy is perfectly lined up ready to go, but yesterday was the first time I’d seen him (eventually) bring a dummy to his mouth and turn it around the right way. It’s definitely one of the skills he’s focused on at the moment (that and early attempts at crawling – it’s noticeable that he doesn’t tend to waste his energy practicing rolls these days).
And we spent some time outside – I even gave him a leaf to play with. This is one of those photo sessions where you end up with a reminder of just how many faces a baby can pull in the space of five minutes.
Bagged baby
TJ is sick at the moment, which means he’s spending more time on my lap – handy for photographing his main sleeping bag.
Felicity Banks 