On the move..

Sorry for the delay between postings. What a busy month it has been.

On Boxing Day Henry started to crawl... well sort of. He looks more like a wounded animal as he drags himself along the ground; but nonetheless, he is now mobile and quite efficient at his 'commando crawl' and follows us around the flat squealing with excitement everytime he rounds a corner. We've now had to invest in some security gates to stop him from crawling into the kitchen or out onto the balcony. He loves crawling into the bathroom and bashing the bathroom scales or trying to tip over the bin. We don't know what it is about the bathroom, but it is always the first room he trys to crawl to. We don't want to shut the doors to all the rooms because it is his home too and we want him to explore it.

A few days after New Years Henry produced his first tooth, closely followed by his second tooth. He now has two lower central incisors. They both arrived with no fuss and hope all the others will do the same.

Tiff started back at work part time mid January. We are sharing child care duties with our best buddies Moz and Dave. They have a little girl (Allegra) who is six weeks younger than Henry. Between the four of us, we are all doing a day of care looking after the two youngsters. Henry has transitioned well and doesn't seem to notice we're not with him all day. Allegra is very playful and likes to crawl after Henry. He is loving the social interaction. They are very cute together, watching each other, taking toys off each other etc.

Henry started swimming lessons on the weekend. He loves the water and didn't mind too much when he was dunked under. He just needs to learn to close his mouth when putting his head underwater. He came up spluttering, but no tears. Once we get some decent photos of him in the water we'll post them as well.

Today we made our way to the zoo so Henry could get a closer look at some of the animals from his books, bedspreads, shirts etc... and he seemed suitably impressed. His favourite were the giraffes and he was very excited when we got him a little one to bring home with him.