Harrison has a small area (4 big floor cushions with a duvet on top) which we call “Harrison-topia”. He has been venturing off this in his expanding world type way and today has bumped his head twice. One only required distraction by giving him the “cityscene” paper to play with/eat. The other was a bit harder and required holding and bouncing and soothing.
We assume that he will eventually learn that the ground is hard.
and he won’t stop. We need to “Harrison-proof” the lounge. He’s shuffling everywhere and has an obsession with paper. Anything made of paper (books, junk mail, the TV Guide) gets shuffled over to at top speed and then gets semi-eaten.
And he has also started going for the door.
So our project for the weekend is to make the lounge/kitchen area a safer place to be. For Harrison and for our stuff!!!!!
and into his Mummy’s lip. He head butted me very hard in the mouth last night and managed to cut the inside of my lip. Ouch!
He is also trying very hard to crawl, but isn’t quite there yet.
Today we had a go on some playground equipment - seesaw = no, slide = unsure and swing = yes.
He’s just about 9 months old now, and soon will be on the fast track to the big Zero-One! My once tiny baby is not so tiny any longer, and he is really learning to throw his weight around now (literally). Just about a one year old now, I can only imagine what lies ahead. He seems tantalisingly close to saying “dada” (or “data” - maybe he’ll be a geek yet) and crawling is just moments away I am sure, from there surely nothing can stop him!
Harrison has added a new syllable into his speech: da.
It is only a small step to “dada”
and then onto “daddy”
obviously I have to step up my game plan and get “mmmmm” into there quickly!!!
and not just his rolls of fat!
Harrison is on the move. He doesn’t stay very long in one place anymore. In the morning he rolls over in his cot, and this morning he wriggled backwards, past his cot bumper, until he could see his Daddy. And then grinned.
So we begin the hunt for a bigger house with room outside for his rolling ways.
Also, he had made friends with Antonio. Until Antonio kicked him in the nose (and he had his shoes on).
Personally I think thats what you get for trying to eat your friends but Harrison was fairly upset and spent a while glaring at Antonio.
Many thanks to “Grunty” Kathy for the Kookaburra puppet. Even when Harrison is at his grumpiest we make the Kookaburra peck and tickle him and it always gets a laugh!!!
I am not sure whether he realises that the Kookaburra is joined to us or not.