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The last couple of nights have been a bit rough. I don’t know whether it’s the teething or him waking up in the middle of the night and deciding his previous long sleep was in fact just a long nap and refusing to go back to sleep even though he’s tired, but he hasn’t wanted to go back to sleep. We actually had to walk up and down the corridors with him which we’ve never had to do before, even when he was a little newborn. Well actually JJ walked the corridors with him, I took him out to the living room, fed him standing (me, not him) which I haven’t done for ages without a sling. He was heavy o_O Eventually managed to get him to slee though he’s been getting us up nice and early. And of course JJ whinges that he’s tired but will not under any circumstances go to bed early.

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I’ve had queries from daharja and redstarma as to how the gummyshark is doing so here’s a quickie while he’s asleep ;)

He’s crawling like a pro now, I have this photo which I need to put up of him finding out that a chair with wheels can be pushed around the floor, and better yet he can walk around the floor while pushing this wheelie chair. He pushed it up to me and grinned quite proudly :)

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Tiny is crawling around, not wuite like a pro but a lot more competently. He’s a bit slow on the startup but once he gets going he goes pretty quick, and you’d never believe he’s only been crawling for about 3 days. He was all over the place today, trying to get to the DVDs, the electrical cables and JJ’s comics (which are on the bottom shelf of the bookshelf due to their height). I decided there wasn’t really much need to buy him toys, he was quite happy batting and chasing and shaking one of the cat toys (a small ball with a bell in it) around :P

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Tiny is officially crawling. I tried to get a photo but it just failed to capture the moment. He’d been working quite hard on it the last couple of days, practising getting his coordination down, and he had managed to accidentally move forward, and plenty more times because it hadn’t occurred to him to move his hands while his legs were pressing forwards, he fell flat on his face.

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So Tiny and I were chilling out on the futon, when Malki came along to join us. I reached over and patted her, eliciting a whole string of purrs, standard oeprating procedure. Tiny looked over at her, then reached over and touched her nose ET style and said quite clearly “cat” (with a soft “t”).

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Something I vented into the Venting Spot at AltBaby. The CMS is a buggy as piece of crap and wigged out (must be cron time) so I figured I may as well cross post here while waiting to see if it actually went through or not :)

I was at the vet the other day collecting Ghost from his stay at the hospital removing a complicated double abscess, and flicking through a Pet of the Year book. There were ads in it as you’d expect and there was some pet food company pushing feeding of raw meat for good health as a myth, and suggesting it may even be dangerous because their food is a perfect nutritional blend and the feeding of raw meat could lead to nutrional imbalances.

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We went out to buy Tiny some new clothes today (again…I have yet to sort through more stuff that we got given to see if he can actually fit any of it). Got him a couple of shirts and some new Bonds suits but haven’t yet bothered to get him more long pants as the weather is slowly warming up.

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- STRAWBERRY -

We took Tiny to the markets, went to the stall we always go to. The stall people there love him, and one of the ladies gave him a strawberry. I bit the bottom off it and he noticed me eating it, so opened his mouth and leaned forward. I held it out for him and he got into chewing on it.

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Tiny saw his first rainbow today. JJ took him out to go check the mail, and called me out to have a look as well. He said to me “You should have seen his face light up!” What Tiny had done upon spotting the rainbow was that adorable look of wonderment babies get when they encounter something that makes them happy, he’d lifted his head up a bit, then an open-mouthed gummyshark grin had spread slowly across his little face until he was all happy eyes and big gummyshark grin. JJ tried to imitate to show what he meant and did a not too bad job considering they look similar, but JJ is bigger and has teeth ;)

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I read somewhere that the difference between men and women is that when women have the flu they say they have a cold and when men have a cold they say they have the flu.

JJ has piked on me (it’s 9pm so I guess it’s getting close, we do pike somewhere between 10:30 and midnight depending on various factors). I’ve been trying to take control of the rampant house in general, getting the animals fed at a less obscene hour. Currently catching up with the laundry, folding nappies at the moment and got the normal laundry on, and then the half load of nappies going in and waiting for the other half load tomorrow.