Penny – Week 33

I must admit I thought sand would taste better than this.

For the first time ever, I didn’t sleep for an entire day. It was too hot and I was too miserable. My gums hurt. Mum and Dad tried to rub weird-tasting stuff into my mouth, and squirt horrible medicine down my throat, and give me things to chew that I didn’t want. Now I have two hard little white toothy pegs peeking through at the bottom of my mouth. They make me cry a lot. I hate them.

I can climb and pull myself up to stand now, so that is pretty much what I want to do 24 hours a day. My preferred way to sit is now high on my knees with my butt perched on my little feet. I am strong enough to hold myself up on my hands and knees. I think about crawling a lot, but I’m not entirely sure how to do it. I sway back and forth a bit but it is still much easier to crawl on my belly.

I had a naming ceremony and lots of people came and cooed at me in my little blue and white dress which I had a great time getting watermelon all over (I’m allowed to eat that again). I made a lot of noise while the celebrant apparently said some very lovely things (it was boring, my story was much better). Then I went on my first holiday, down to Gerroa on the south coast. More on that next week.

Penny – Week 32

Want it. In my mouth. So badly.

This week some new people arrived, called Granny and Grandad! I think they must be famous because I’ve seen them on a tv show called skype. It’s a great show but they are much more fun in person. They play with me a lot and take me on walks and talk to me with a funny accent. I love them.

I now commando crawl with such determination that I have blisters on my toes. Mum says they are the hardest working toes in all of Dulwich Hill.

I am waking up more at night time again. Mum used to think that three times in the night was a lot, well, I showed her! But it is dark and I can’t get back to sleep and I know she is just in the next room so if I cry loudly enough somebody will come and cuddle me and that’s nice. Sleeping is for chumps anyway. During the day I am stretching from three naps down to two naps, so there is more time to play! I have also started to pull myself up to a standing position, if there is someone nearby that I can lean on.

Also, do you know about these animals called DOGS? They are THE BEST. They are furry and happy and slobbery and jumpy and yappy and crazy. I LOVE THEM.

Penny – Week 31

I am seven months old now. I wake up at 5.30am every morning. I can finally move from a sitting position onto my belly without slamming my face into the ground, which is nice. My latest obsession is the pin that locks the window and I want to try and pull it out every day. I have figured out how to crawl on my belly from one room to another – hey! I’m in the kitchen now! – and am doing lots of excellent fun things like pulling draws open, pulling glasses off people’s faces, and stuffing loads of food into my mouth every meal time and choking. I’m not really sure what choking is but I don’t like it very much. A couple of times Mum has had to pick me up and thump me on the back. I’m not allowed to have watermelon any more. 

Penny – Week 30

It ain’t all sweetness and light.

Just in case you thought I was a super-cute happy smiling baby all the time, Mum thought she would keep it real by posting this photo of me. It is apt. I am incredibly clingy and don’t like being put down on the ground, or on my change table, or in my cot, or in my chair. I’m also getting really, really upset when I am playing with something awesome like a lovely crunchy packet of wipes and then it gets taken away from me. These are basically the worst things to have ever happened in my tiny life. The humanity. SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN. 

The parental units try to feed me three solid meals a day but I’m not so keen on eating any more. It used to be fun but now I just want to put my hands in the bowl and clamp my mouth shut when a spoon comes anywhere near me. I still like finger food a lot but that is mostly about making a mess, not eating. Also I have learnt to bang my hand on things and I highly recommend you give this a go because not only is it fun, but it’s noisy too!

Because I can crawl on my belly now, I am hearing the word ‘no’ a lot. I have figured out that if I go near the totally rad stuff like the power cords or the guitar stand, Mum and Dad don’t like that, and I’m not supposed to go near them. They tell me that everything else in the room is okay but pffft, everything else in the room is boring. So, I go to play with the power cords anyway when I think they’re not looking. They always catch me. I got stuck under the TV cabinet one time when Mum was on the phone which was a bit upsetting. But it was worth it.

The one thing that happened this week that I LOVED was when I went into the GIANT BATH. I had to wear a special suit and there were lots of other kids there and little water fountains and Mum and Dad got in with me and we played and splashed and IT WAS THE BEST THING EVER.