Lenny is six months old today and I find myself thinking this is one tenth of the way to starting school … he’ll be grown up before I know it! Well hopefully it won’t be too fast because this journey is too much fun.
Days are now filled with spontaneous laughter. In fact, we’ve started one of those laughter clubs. When we laugh Lenny joins in and the louder we laugh the louder he laughs and the louder he laughs the more we laugh and the more we laugh the more he laughs and before we know it 10 or more minutes have passed and just like Dr Madan Kataria said it would, the stress has all disappeared. This could actually be taking years off my life which could be useful for when Lenny hits the teens!
Food has been a big hit. I now seem to spend my time preparing it, serving it and cleaning it up – I don’t know why I was so excited about it! Oh well, at least I’ve found a use for the dustbuster. So far he’s not a fussy eater, just a very demanding one. If we’re eating he thinks he should be too so I’ve started giving him stuff off my plate. He’s had things flavoured with garlic and onion (it’s quite funny when a little baby does a big garlic burp) and if this continues he should be eating chili in no time. I’m sure babies eat traditionally spicy foods in other cultures, don’t they?
I’m also now having to put things out of reach. Lenny’s become very “grabby”. Whenever I pick him up he brings something with him. I washed his hands at the sink the other day and I didn’t notice he’d picked up the disgusting mouldy bath plug and was sucking on it. Nice.
In all this hot weather he’s spent a lot of time just wearing nappies and nothing else. The downside of this is that he’s learned to undo his nappy. Luckily those little flaps make that velcro sound when they’re undone so I know when I need to do it up again – which at the moment seems like every five minutes!
What were all those plans I made again for my time off from work?
