So, its been a while since dad commented...
Obviously I don't see as much of Benjamin as his mum, but he always smiles at me when he does... He's started drinking whole bottles of water in a day, and personally I'm well inpressed, I mean the bottle is about a third of his body length... Especially considering he wouldn't take more that a sip of a bottle, even ones with mummy milk in them, a few weeks ago, and now he's emptying the whole thing.
I'm not sure if mummy has mentioned already, but Bendy is sleeping in his own bed now, in his own room; except when he gets up at 6am and crawls out of the cot, into our room and gets in our bed, and lies just where it means when I roll over I land on him.
And then, the sleeping, he seems to like lying on his side, grabbing one of the bars of the cot. His mummy tried to turn him back over tonight, and he didn't like it, and turned back after having a whinge about the whole matter... oops sorry I'm being corrected, "it wasn't just a bit of a whinge" says mum.
He does need a lot of attention, he's old enough to want to be not bored and needs entertained, but not old enough to entertain himself. He's not to mobile, and trying to grab things usually ends up in just clouting them accross the floor/off his seat. But he's getting better, he got hold of Mr Turtle this evening and belted the crap out of him. The violence was slightly worrying but the dexterity was an impressive improvement. And I've not quite worked out how to get him to understand me conveying right and wrong yet; you frown and him and he just smiles and giggles, you smile at him and he smiles and giggles. If its not clear he's pretty smiley and giggley, except when he's tired, then he's a little whingey sod, and there's not much you can do for him except get vicky to take him to bed and feed him. ...but there is one trick to stop him whinging a bit, "the Baby in the Mirror".
So, this entails, picking him up and walking up to the lounge or hal mirror, and then you have to get him to look at the baby in the mirror. It just seems to be, to me, that the baby in the mirror is his friend, and he doesn't want to be seen crying in front of his friend. He stares at the baby in the mirror, and tries to hold his hand, and occassionally plays pat-a-cake. :-)
Posted by nickh at June 10, 2004 11:38 PM