Past couple of weeks…

So, so many things have happened in the past few weeks.

Jack is an absolute star. He’s eating a lot better again now after having a stint of eating bits, probably because of teething again.

No, he’s not walking… yet. We keep trying to make him walk between us, as well as getting him to walk with him holding our hands. Having said all that, he’ll happily scale the walls, sofa, cupboard doors, etc, which is what’s slightly infuriating, to say the least.

He’s understanding more and more about what we say, more than we know, probably. How do we know this? Well, he’s getting better at pointing at things when we mention them and trying his best to pronounce them but still sounds all goo-goo ga ga, which is still funny.

Unless it’s really early in the morning, he’s usually pretty spot on with his cars, trucks, lorries, and so on which are still dotted around the room. I keep adding the occasional new photo to the collection; we now have a Police car, Ambulance and a Fire Engine, as well as a blue Porsche and a photo of Mater from Disney’s Cars (as he really likes that!)

Progress update

The days are flying by, and the little lad is still crawling by.

Despite our best efforts, Jack is still crawling around the house and not showing a great interest in walking much. Which is fine, as I’m sure that when he does walk, he’ll be a nightmare to keep in one place!

He will, however, climb up and over almost anything that will support his body weight, as well as hanging on things too. These include things like radiators, speaker cabinets, or anything in sight that a 1yr old kid can grab enough of. He’ll even lay facedown on top of one of the speakers next to the television, legs and feet up in the air, with his arms stretched out in front of him trying to reach the wires behind the telly!

He’s also getting a dab-hand at using the phone too. Each time he picks up the phone, he looks at it, pointing and saying ‘Daaa’ at the same time expecting to see a photo of his pa. He even managed to get hold of the cordless house phone the other weekend and phone his grandparents down the road – Claire’s dad had to call my mobile to tell me that they could hear everything that we was saying, as the little monster had dialled and then wandered off to play with his tractor! Good job it was someone we know, and local too!!

He’s getting better with his identifying of real-world objects, with some thanks to the flash cards that we’ve put around his room. I still like to test him regularly with where the Bus is, or where the Tank or Digger is. He’s getting much better and now when we look out the window and he see’s a car, it goes' something like this:

Daddy: Jack, what’s that?

Jack: Kaaaaaa

Daddy: Yes that’s right – what noise does a car make?

Jack: brum brum

It’s quite funny. Well, it makes me smile anyway!