Week 13

20th - 26th March 2005

Caroline's Entry

I'm hiding, you can't see me :)

Over the last few weeks Evan has started to chew things more. He started off mainly chewing his fist (which he still does - a lot!) but now he's started chewing everything else too - his toys, his clothes, and his muslin! He's taken quite a liking to his muslin and he buries his face in it and giggles! We discovered this week that it will actually keep him amused for quite a while!

Another discovery we made this week is that Evan has started showing an interest in the TV. Is that normal for young babies?? In the evenings we usually change him down on the floor in front of the TV and we use that time to play with him, do a massage, give him tummy time etc. But this week I started to notice that he wasn't so interested in playing and that he kept looking away. I didn't notice anything odd about it at first because he has a weird tendency to look far over to the right anyway but then I realised that he actually had his eyes transfixed on the telly!

He's been doing it quite a lot and at the weekend we were at a friends house and I was playing with him on a mat near the TV and he kept wiggling around and turning himself to face the TV. So eventually I moved the mat to the position he was facing and he stopped wiggling! It's nice that we've found a couple of things to amuse him so that he doesn't need 100% attention but I hope he doesn't spend his whole life in front of the TV as he gets older.

One quite cute thing about him watching the TV now though it that now that he can sit up a little easier I can plonk him on my lap leaning up against me and we can watch the TV sitting in that position having a cuddle :)

Caroline

Emma's Entry

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This week I introduced Evan to his cardboard books. He hasn't figured out how to hold them or eat them but he does like to look at the pictures. He woke me up at 6am one day this week and showed no signs of wanting to go back to sleep so we made a coffee for mummy and I plonked him in between my legs so that he was able to sit up. My legs were supporting him on both sides and from that position we sat and read all about racing cars and also about Little Bear's adventures. I've read that babies do like to have the same stories read to them at this age because they like rhymes and repetition.

His vision is remarkably wide now and I've noticed him looking up on the shelves spotting Caroline's toys in the study when I carry him around. I've also noticed that going for a walk in the push chair isn't great anymore for sending him to sleep. Instead he spends the whole trip looking around in wonderment at the outside world and its surroundings.

Hmmm, interesting species of fish!

We went to see Caroline's mum again this weekend and Evan loved all the attention from all but one person. He chatted away and giggled at all the funny faces that people pulled. The one person he didn't take a fancy too was a real heavy smoker and as soon as she picked him up he screamed the house down. I wasn't aware of why until we got up close to her and wow the smell was strong. His nanny took him from the lady and he immediately stopped. She was shocked as apparently babies don't cry around her—they must be used to the smoking environment! This has now given me concerns for when we visit his great grandmother because I am going to have to ask her to not smoke before we visit because it would be awful if he just spent the whole day crying because of the smoky smell.

We moved Evan into the bath this week as his feet had started poking over the sink edge! We have this towelling bath support that allows us to be hands free and Evan seems to like the extra space. He's not interested in his ducks yet but startles himself at first when he splashes water over himself every time he kicks but it soon turns into a giggle when we laugh about it. Getting in with him is not so fun because it's mightily cold having a bath in two inches of water!

Emma