Darling Boy,
You are growing so quickly and so far I love each new stage best of all! On Tuesday night you laughed, three times! You laughed once about a month ago, when your Daddy and I were telling you that you would soon have to learn how to cook pancakes and a lamb roast so we could kick back sometimes – an appropriate response to be sure. But nothing since then, until Tuesday night when you chortled as I kissed and tickled your tummy at bath time. I can’t wait to hear you laugh more and more.
You had your first taste of rice cereal today, and approved. I have been waiting for signs, signs that you were still hungry after your bottles, but as you weren’t finishing bottles I figured you must still be okay on a milk only diet. Turns out you weren’t finishing them because they weren’t satisfying you – at least, that’s what it looks like at this early stage. It took you a few mouthfuls to get the hang of letting the food stay in your mouth, rather than pushing it out with your tongue. Once you did, you demanded more, waiting with mouth open and tongue out for the next bit of yumminess. Watching you explore food is going to be so much fun!
You have a funny sound that you make when you’re happy. Could be happiness at playing on the floor, or happiness at having a dummy returned to you or happiness at having my attention. I was trying to work out how to describe it and your Daddy was dead on when he said it’s a possum noise. So I am now calling it your happy possum noise. Guess what your next nickname is going to be?!! So far we have Lamby Fusspot, Little Guy, Snugglepot, Ramber (though not from us, not now anyway!), Zacky boy, and now Happy Possum.
