Rolling and grabbing

It feels like Mitch hasn't done anything "new" for a while and then last night and this morning he did two new things. Firstly he was lying on his tummy on the change table as I put some cream on him and all by himself he rolled from his belly on to his back. I wouldn't say it was a controlled roll ... more of a case of tipping himself over and then wondering what happened. Meeks and I were jumping around and praising him and he just wondered what had happened. Then we put him back on his belly and he did it again. So we put him on a blanket on the ground and he did it again, still not quite knowing what was going on. Meeks ran off to get the video camera. When she came back we put him on his belly again and for about 2 minutes he lay there with his arms propping himself up and head up looking around and his little feet waggling, but no rolling over. Very sute though as dribble came out of his mouth. It was by far the longest he's managed to keep his head up during tummy time so we were still happy even though we didn't catch the rolling on the video camera.

Then this morning, while I was in the shower and Meeks was playing with him, he was lying on his play mat looking up at his friend Mr Lion and instead of reaching up with fists closed or batting Mr Lion about, he reached up and grabbed his little leg and pulled it down .. and put it into his mouth. Clever boy!

It is such a delight to see him learning to do new things and interacting with the world around him a bit more.

We entered a few pictures of him into a Harvey Norman competition for cute kids. We used the Cheeky Monkey photo, a photo of him in the basket and of im on the chaneg table which have all been on this blog. We may be biased but he can't possibly lose! Ah, the blindness of parents! If we win, the prize is $12,000 towards his education. That would be awesome, even if high school is 12 or so years away. The scary thing is that if we send him to a private school, it would cover less than 1 year at somewhere like Barker!