

Well, we are back after 10 days in Western Australia - mostly Wagin to visit Gran and Uncle Steve and two days in Perth for Jason & Lisa's wedding. I went across with David and Paul joined us for the wedding on Saturday and relaxing on Sunday. Gran came up to Perth to babysit David for the wedding on Saturday evening, and went home on the bus on Sunday. Paul really just went for the wedding - no sooner there than we were leaving. Great to see Lisa and Jason married, but not really time for anything else.
Lots to report! David has cut a tooth and it looks as though there are two teeth coming through at once. Not too many problems with the actual cutting, although David is a bit grizzly and looking for more cuddles lately. He is also now dribbling a lot, as the teeth are coming through.
David is now crawling very well and very quickly. He is also pulling himself up to stand and starting to move around a little when he has pulled himself up. This is the new development and happened in Wagin, so Gran has seen it. The footstool was exactly the right height for it. He is very good at it already - he aims for something and then crawls over, and pulls himself up. If he is too far out, he reassesses and then moves closer and tries again. Once he is up, he can take a step, or get down, although not necessarily elegantly. As a result, David is very very pleased with himself!

Here are some photos of David doing the standing up thing. In all of these photos he has got himself up and into this position. The slippers are little blue sheep and were a present from Uncle Steve from Williams.
David had a great time with his Gran and his brother Steve. The cat, Ted, took one look and stayed at Steve's place and didn't come back for five days! Amazing just how scary a baby can be. David slept well in Wagin and mostly in Perth. He had his little bed in Wagin and survived the cool nights. He was in a portacot in Perth in our room and slept less well.

David is eating three meals a day, all pretty small. His favourite at the moment is oat porridge, plain or with a variety of fruit added, and plain avocado. He has also now tried sweet corn and pumpkin, but not liked plums (too tart we think) and has rejected carrot - not sure why. We have tried David on a few bought baby foods - not with too much success. The best so far was apple and oat porridge, pretty much the same as I make, but with a touch of vanilla and cinnamon.
David also travelled exceptionally well - especially considering on both flights we were delayed for lengthy periods on the ground after boarding - for 45 minutes departing from Sydney and for two hours on the return from Perth.

That's right - the plane to Sydney left 3 hours late - boarding an hour late and after waiting for two hours in a hot plane on the runway. Problems with the airconditioning. We ended up stripping David down to just his singlet suit too keep him cool. David took it all very well and enjoyed himself and charmed a lot of the passengers and air crew. Out of three hours at the airport and six hours on the plne, he only slept for 45 minutes, so I was glad to get him to sleep fairly easily last night at 11.30pm (or 9.30pm WA time).
The last photo is David playing with the gas heater in the kitchen in Wagin - not on of course. A good thing to bang on with his hand.