Progress and a sick little boy

No photos today as Mitch has a nasty cold and is quite unattractive with a blocked nose, snottiness and dribble. Still very cute though.

On the other hand he has learnt a few new tricks.

Last Monday he stood up from the ground by himself. He didn't really realise what he had done and hasn't really done it again. Only Meeks was home to see it, so hopefully he'll do it again soon.

Another thing new thing he has learnt to do is clapping and he's very happy with himself about it. He's very cute about it and thinks he deserves to be clapped everytime he claps and when he sees us clapping he starts again ... and so it goes on.

He's also learnt to point out things out. If you say, "Where is Daddy's nose?" he point's to my nose. He can also point to Daddy's hair, Mummy's hair, Mummy's nose, Poppy's hair, Towie (his tow truck he got for his birthday), Ball (his big blue ball), and when you say "bottle" he points to the cupboard where the bottles are kept.

Talking of food, Mitch seems to have gotten over his profound dislike of fruit. Previously, he would scarcely let it past his lips, and banana even caused him to gag. Now he makes a mess of it but eats it happily. He likes banana and mandarin, but isn't mad about rockmelon. He likes to get the mandarin and squeeze the juice out of it so it runs down his arm and then he puts it in his mouth, gives it a chew, takes it out, puts it back in again and this goes on until it is either eaten or dropped, where upon he starts on the next segment. Banana is pretty much the same story although less juicy and more gooey. Both are of course very messy!

He's mad about books too. Every time we get him out of bed he points straight to his bookshelf. Meeks and I have read "Hairy McClary", "Who is hiding under the ocean?", "Bear About Town", and various "That's not my teddy bear/bunny/dinosaur/car" books so many times we can pretty much repeat them without having to look at the words. In fact he doesn't even need us to be there, he'll quite happily "read" them himself.

Anyway, that's all the news. Hopefully Mitch will be healthy again soon. He doesn't get sick very often, so we can't complain, but it's not pretty when he does.