10 months today!

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Since I last updated Matthew has got better at crawling, and has been getting more confident at assisted walking.

He can now use the walker with both hands - though you have to chase him as he tends to topple when he gets too fast. He routinely wanders round holding just one of our hands now, and is beginning to treat furniture as things to hold onto too - not just people. He's even starting to make a few steps completely unaided - just one or two at a time mostly, but it's definitely proper wobbly walking! He's getting chattier too, especially at mealtimes, though we have no idea what he might be trying to say, and it's mostly babbled noises rather than attempts at words. He loves to look at, and point at, lights - though rarely points at much else. His sleeping has been a bit rubbish so far this year, but he's settled down to 3 wakes last night and 4 the night before, and both nights he went back down fairly easily after feeding, and slept til around 7 - both of which are huge improvements!

We had a lovely visit the weekend before last from Granny Ann and Grandad Ivan - with belated Christmas presents all round and a trip to the zoo. Must get round to posting dad the things he left behind ;). I have had my first evening out without Matthew - cocktails with the other women of my NCT group which was lovely. And this weekend just gone we went into town and bought ourselves a new mattress (to be delivered next week) and had a less than successful lunch out - mostly Matthew has enjoyed eating out, but I think the basement in Don Pasquale was just a bit too overwhelmingly dark and noisy for him, and they were just a bit rushed on a Saturday lunchtime which let the service down too. Otherwise it was a really lovely weekend though, and Matthew and I have had a nice day in today. These days I'm usually out for at least part of most days - Tuesday to the library or soft play or both, Wednesday to the playgroup at the church, Thursday to Sing and Sign (which has just restarted for this term with some nice new people as well as the friends we made last term), and now we've tried the Little Quavers music group in Stapleford on a Friday too, and that was nice.

I'm rambling a bit, so I'll finish with a couple of photos from earlier today:

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Oh, and a couple of other things to note: now he can crawl and get up from lying down on his back or front he,a a nightmare to try and change nappies or clothes, as he won't stay put! I've been trying to put him in 'real' clothes more often this last week, but gave up and just went with the babygro today, though in the end it wasn't that much easier. Putting sock-ons over the top of it does mean it stops getting bunched up when he's walking and crawling around though, even if it does look a bit odd. I do still love him in sleep suits, but very few other babies his age are still wearing them for daytimes, and it's starting to feel a bit odd of me :) We're making the most of the 6-9 month clothes still - he's starting to grow out of some of the vests, but the trousers are still long on him, and his 9-12 month coat is enormous.

[lizardc.livejournal.com]

Next NCT sale is 22 March, if you need some more 'normal' clothes in his size!!

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Edward is still in babygros, though I have asked for 'normal' clothes for his birthday. Does Matthew likes light switches as well as the lights? Edward thinks the 3 switch one in our hallway is the best thing ever.

[lnr]

Oh we've got heaps of clothes in both 6-9 and 9-12 - we've just been ignoring them until now ;)

Sale might be a good chance to shift the crib and carrycot, if I had the least idea how you go about selling things at it, or a sensible transport option, or enough energy to work these things out. No interest from Facebook, cam,misc or work forum so far.

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Not quite as interested, as he can't quite press hard enough to push them yet, but I should try him on the one in the hall, good tip!

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Have you tried Gumtree or eBay? We'd had a fair bit of luck selling things through both of those.

Seller registration for the NCT sale is open from 22 January (tomorrow!) - see

http://www.nctcambridge.org/faq.htm

and:

http://www.nctcambridge.org/contactme.html

I suspect it fills quite fast, although I don't know for sure. Can't help with the transport though I'm afraid :(.

[lnr]

Btw thanks for the gumtree suggestion, the bednest sold with loads of interest, though the carrycot didn't get a single bite - will try selling it with the chair when Matthew eventually grows out of it I guess. It doesn't help that there's a newer model out.