Happy 3/4th birthday Nico!

Nicolas is 9 months old today.

Just when I thought we were blessed to have such an easy baby, hardship kicked in.

Meal times have been a struggle for the past week or two, with Nico always kicking up a fuss and starting to cry as soon as I put him in the high chair. Except for breakfast, which goes through quite smoothly. He must like my yoghurt. I certainly hope that it's because of teething, at least I know it will end one day. He is quite happy feeding himself finger food such as pizza crusts, carrot sticks or banana slices. I've become a bit more brave since getting the messy mat that goes under his high chair, and have invested in more plastic bibs. The ones with the pocket underneath are great!!!



Things are starting to happen quite quickly too.


Nico started making some sort of motion forward on Friday. I'm not sure it can qualify as crawling as a lot of belly was used, maybe we can call it slithering for now. Though not as gracefully done as snakes.
He especially likes to head towards poor Naliah. But that evil cat always moves just out of reach, tantalising lying just centimetres away from him.
She'll be sorry the day she doesn't look and he decides to stealth to her.

He's also able to remain standing on his own, holding onto the bars of his playpen.


Ma-ma-ma sounds have been replaced by ba-ba-ba sounds, directed at anything and anyone.




Nico's a lot more aware and observant of his environment, noticing everything from the small fruitfly buzzing around to the big spotty thing boucing towards him.








Daddy and son are having a lot of laughs together. When Daddy comes home from work he gets an open-armed welcome (from Nico that is, not from me) and from then on Daddy's shoulders become the best toy in the whole world. He'll get fit again in no time! We won't mention premature baldness - strands of curly blonde hair are sacrificed every day.



Nico can do high-fives! OK granted, it's a bit more of a touch-Mummy's-palm-and-watch-her-clap-herself-silly, but it's a start.


I got a piano/xylophone toy from the Toy Library and Daddy showed Nico how to play with it. Seconds later, Nico grabbed the drumstick to show him how it's done.
We also pop him in front of the piano at Oma's place, and he will quite happily bangs on the keys.


Oh and I've also changed the website address for this blog to http://tadpolesrus.blogspot.com/. I figured since I never remembered 15march, other people would have even more trouble.
So if you're using RSS feeds or get e-mailed updates, you may need to do this again with the new website.