“It’s like he’s a real person and everything..”

Over the last few days, I have noticed something about Jack – he’s starting to appear, certainly to me anyway, like a mini-person…

I admit, that sounds like a daft/stupid/obvious/dad-like thing to say, but I’ll try to explain.

When we’ve been over to people’s houses to see their new babies, they’re exactly what it says on the tin… a baby. As in, it cries and poos. Lots.

But Jack has already started to develop his own little personality, making him appear more and more grown up each day. When I say personality, I don’t think he’s developed a taste for a particular genre of music, or love of the arts, or anything, but more that he seems to have developed a ‘happy mode’, whereby he’s up for a giggle, or to be thrown up in the air and caught (gently!!) that he finds amusing, but then later he has a little mood swing, like we all do, and he’s hungry and determined to get some milk, almost like a ‘grumpy mode’, and we’re able to see when he’s in either of those and we are (I should say ‘I’ here, as Claire has been like this with him for ages!) starting to be able to expect and adjust his behaviour with how we treat him.

Hhhmmm, maybe I shouldn’t have tried to explain that, as it might sound like I’ve been living in a cave for the last 16 weeks and have been ignoring him, but the point is, that he’s growing and learning to do stuff and it’s quite an amazing process to watch in such detail.

He’s started to get a bit good with his hands and is able to use them to full force to tell us that he’s full and doesn’t want any more milk, but clamping his hands around either side of the milk bottle and trying to throw it directly away from his face to stop the milk-flow - this is in addition to using his tongue to purge any reside milk in his mouth that he doesn’t want.

One last thing with regards to this whole personification thing going on in this blog post, Jack is getting to be a right little telly-addict…! It’s easy to see why people seem to shove kids in front of the TV to shut them up, as he’s quiet in a second almost, even from the hurricane of all crying-storms! Especially so when he’s watching one of his Disney Baby Einstein DVDs! However, on the other hand, it’s a bit too easy to do that and then it’s a bit of a cop-out instead of playing with him and his toys.

Incidentally, Claire has just walked in the room after printing out a few more of the photos for her album and she’s just said that it’s amazing how much he has grown, compared to the wrinkly, shrivelled-up, yet hairy, little baby that we brought home from the shop.