More Standing

Most mornings this is how I'm greeted

Daniel is so proud that he can stand up in his cot. Most nap times he enjoys standing for a while before he gets tired and then lies down for his nap. Fortunately he doesn't really cry, he just chats and looks around and then goes to sleep. From what I hear from my mums group mums, we are very fortunate about this.

Now Daniel is all better after his sickness. He is sleeping properly again (with one wake up in the night) and is his happy self. At the start of the week he was still recovering. I had one morning where during a feed he fell asleep but he was so tired that he stayed asleep when moving him to his room. He then stayed asleep as I put him into his sleeping bag and then into his bed. I can't remember the last time I could do that! Normally he wakes up as I stand up. It was lovely to have some gorgeous cuddles with my sleeping bubba.

Asleep in my arms

Stayed asleep when put into his bed

Asleep in his cot with his new shelf above him. Monitor is now well out of reach

Each play time Daniel now climbs up on his toys, chairs, cupboards, etc. Most of the time he only pulls up onto his knees and enjoys bouncing and looking around but then other times he gets up onto his feet.

He now can get to sitting from being on his knees.

It is pretty sweet to watch him playing with his toys in a different way. He enjoys looking in his basket and getting out a different toy to play with. He likes reaching different blocks by standing up and stretching over. 

Just for fun I set up his walker. It's pretty funny to see that Daniel has no interest in walking at the moment. While I was holding him he would push the walker forward and just bend his back forward - no foot movement at all. It was pretty cute.

This morning was the first morning in a while where I chose to do no house work and instead just lay down on the ground and watched Daniel play and chatted with him. I know it is important to do, but I also see the dishes or washing that needs to be done and so choose to do that instead while glancing down at what Daniel was doing. It was nice to have him climb over me, play around with his toys and just explore. I love how he is very adventurous and independent but then is happy to come back to me and have a cuddle. He sure does make me laugh!