Week 15

3rd - 9th April 2005

Emma's Entry

"Splish! Splash!"

As we mentioned a few weeks ago, Evan is now in the big bath as he is now a big boy! He is even starting to outgrow the bath support that we use there so I am not sure what we will do then. The big bath is helping us all to feel comfortable and prepare for our first swimming session with Evan as he needs to get used to having water on his face. It just so happens that he now gets ever so excited at bath times that this week he has learned that flapping his arms and kicking his feet makes splashes... lots of them! He was splashing about so much that we were both laughing and it made Caroline come and investigate the noise. I can't wait until we are able able to play with the ducks!

As it is now Spring time and this year we'd like to have a lovely garden for Evan to play in we decided to start our gardening. We had a lovely sunny weekend and I managed to get Evan out in it - with the factor 40 just in case! We had him in shorts and I used the fly net and sun brolly attachments on the push chair for the first time. The fresh air was really good for him and he was still nice and warm, he had a really long sleep that day whilst I mowed the lawn and Caroline pruned. It was a lovely family moment and I look forward to many days where we spend quality time together as a family out in our pretty flowery garden.

Emma

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Sleeping Beauty?

We had a monumental event this week (kinda) - Evan crawled! Okay so it was backwards, but he still crawled :) I had him on his belly for tummy time on the change mat and he tends to wriggle around a lot these days and I noticed that he was shuffling himself downwards towards the back of the mat! I watched him and sure enough he managed to shuffle all the way back down until his legs were on carpet and he got a bit stuck and I had to slide him back up. He's done it several times since then.

I've noticed that he seems to have better coordination in his legs than in his arms. He can push his legs quite forcefully but he hasn't figured out how to move his arms when he has his bodyweight on them. Sometimes when we have him sitting on our laps facing us he'll push himself up into a standing position as if he's trying to climb up!

I was a little naughty this week and introduced Evan to his first non-milk food: icecream! Mmmmmmm. I was eating chocolate & orange flavour and you know how it all melts and goes runny... Well I thought he might like it so I dipped my finger in the runny stuff and popped it into his mouth. He lapped it up, yumm! Emma was rather displeased but she got over it :)

Caroline