Monday, October 17, 2005
I've finally got rid of my cold except for the odd little cough but its hard us little people because we can't cough it up like everyone else. Mum and Dad were saying that I've done very well not to wake during the night while I've had it. Actually I have been awake alot (and they know that I've been awake) but I've managed to amuse myself and fall off to sleep again. I usually start to goo and ga to myself around 6.30am these days and Mum or Dad comes to pick me up soon after that and I go into the big bed for a breastfeed and a little "pig in the middle."
This afternoon, Mum put me in the new backpack and walked around with me in it while she hand watered the garden. While she was busy, I looked up at the trees and touched the branches and leaves that came within reach and ran my hands through her hair, I only pulled it a little bit. Mum has bought me a hair brush and sometimes she runs it through my soft hair. It has grown a bit and so now it sits down on top and doesn’t stand up like a cockatoo!
I am now definitely a formula boy and had three bottles today. I can hold the bottle myself so that my Mum just needs to watch and wipe my neck when I smile at her and the milk in my mouth runs down there. Mum is still experimenting with the best times to feed me the bottles of formula but I am still putting away the same sized meals and enjoying them too. I still do quite alot of arm flailing and whole body rocking in between the mouthfuls of food but eventually get through it all! Mum and Dad think I’ll be right handed because I pick up my finger food like squares of vegemite bread and pieces of cheese with my right hand. I use my left to fend off the approaching water bottle when I don’t want it and to stop any hand which doesn’t contain food (often it contains a cloth to wipe my face!)
This afternoon, Mum put me in the new backpack and walked around with me in it while she hand watered the garden. While she was busy, I looked up at the trees and touched the branches and leaves that came within reach and ran my hands through her hair, I only pulled it a little bit. Mum has bought me a hair brush and sometimes she runs it through my soft hair. It has grown a bit and so now it sits down on top and doesn’t stand up like a cockatoo!
I am now definitely a formula boy and had three bottles today. I can hold the bottle myself so that my Mum just needs to watch and wipe my neck when I smile at her and the milk in my mouth runs down there. Mum is still experimenting with the best times to feed me the bottles of formula but I am still putting away the same sized meals and enjoying them too. I still do quite alot of arm flailing and whole body rocking in between the mouthfuls of food but eventually get through it all! Mum and Dad think I’ll be right handed because I pick up my finger food like squares of vegemite bread and pieces of cheese with my right hand. I use my left to fend off the approaching water bottle when I don’t want it and to stop any hand which doesn’t contain food (often it contains a cloth to wipe my face!)
# posted by Connor McDonald @ 3:37 PM 
