Milestones at Ten Weeks

This is David saying "It's my bottle and I'll hold it if I want to! Just don't even think about taking it away."

Well, David is 10 weeks old today and we are celebrating two milestones reached yesterday.

David has rolled for the first time! Not witnessed by either of his parents however. David had fallen asleep whilst feeding, so I put him, complete with pillow on the floor, on his quilt. He woke up later, and was making a few noises, but was otherwise fine, so I thought that I would finish the washing up, before picking him up. A few minutes later he started to cry, with a different note. Looking over I realised that he had made his way off the pillow, onto the floor, on his front and at right angles to the pillow! He was a little upset because he was face down in the quilt. He didn't seem to appreciate the enormity of being mobile - he just wanted to be comforted and fed. Well, we've been expecting it, but it always happens when you don't expect it.

The other milestone is that David has graduated to big boy nappies, from Newborn size to Infant. More capacity, for those times when David is working hard on filling his nappy.

More generally, everything is now going into his mouth - in particular, toys and his fist and his thumb. At present he doesn't seem to have a favourite, and his fist or thumb can be replaced by a dummy, but we will just have to see if that continues. He is reaching out and pulling toys to him in his pram or on the floor - but not yet grabbing them from us when we wave them at him.

Paul was home over the weekend and David seemed to be both more excited to have dad around and a bit more grizzly. As you can see, he was happy to have Dad feed him though!

The weather has changed again here in Sydney, from cool and unsettled to very hot and unsettled. David doesn't seem to like the hot weather too much and has been grizzly again today (over 30C). Hopefully that will change as we all get used to the summer weather! Paul is travelling again this week but will be back for the weekend, before heading down to Melbourne for a short trip. That should then be all the business travelling until the new year - we just have to get ready for the trip to Wagin for Christmas.