Penny – Week 48

I’m very helpful in the kitchen

Since coming home from the sleep school, I have been mostly sleeping better. I still wake up in the night a fair bit, but I only have one drink of milk when I first wake up and then the rest of the time I go back to sleep on my own. I am eating better for the most part too, sitting in my chair and not throwing too much of a tantrum about it. It’s been a bit of a wobbly week though, some days are better than others, and some mornings I still wake up at 5am and force Mum to play with me even though she is looking extremely tired. I wonder why that is?

I am very pinchy just now and I like all the different stacking cups I have to play with. I love putting things into the cups and taking them back out again, and knocking down the towers that other people make. Peekaboo is still my number one favourite game, and I play it around furniture, behind curtains, and under sheets and mats. I will often pop up from behind the coffee table with a ‘surprise!’ on my face.

I also took one whole step this week without holding onto anything. It was under duress and I was very unhappy about it, but it happened nonetheless. I was walking with Mum holding my hands and then she let go and tried to get me to keep going towards her on my own, well that sucked! She seemed very happy but I whinged about it for a while. Geez. Dad says he thinks I have the ability to walk, but I just have no desire to. Of course I don’t! Why would I walk when crawling is faster, and being carried around is easier? Walking is for chumps.

Penny – Week 47

imma coming for you!

This week I went to a place called Tresillian. Mum and I stayed there for four nights and there were lots of other babies and amazing toys to play with! I learnt how to walk pushing a trolley, and how to slide down a slippery dip on my tummy, and I finally figured out how to clap by watching some of my new little friends doing it. Things were different there though, they made me sit in a high chair to eat food every meal time (something Mum had all but given up doing) and I didn’t like it one bit. After a couple of days I realised it maybe wasn’t so bad. I love feeding myself with a spoon and am getting a bit better at it, but in general I am still extremely impatient at meal times and would much rather go and play.

I had to sleep in a strange place and I didn’t get milk every two hours any more. It wasn’t so bad really but it did make it harder to get to sleep because I am so used to it. But I am a big girl and know how to go to sleep on my own now.