All fun and games (plus good check ups)

This week at swimming I had such a proud Mummy moment. Daniel is just doing so well at swimming. I think it has helped that most of his lessons have been 1:1 but I'm definitely not complaining! This week at swimming, Daniel's teacher was so pleased with him! He started to blow bubbles - all on his own accord, partly by accident but also knowing that he can do something with his mouth in the water (besides drinking it). We have been focussing on trying to kick while swimming and this week Daniel started to do some independent kicking - he seems to be piecing it together. When we did Humpty Dumpty, Daniel sat on the wall until we said 'Under - 1, 2, 3, mmmm' and he leant himself into the water, face under and kicked to me - all on his own for the first time! I was so proud of him! He is more comfortable so claps his hands during the songs. Although we are still working on the hello song. But I was still so proud of him. He has come so far in just 8 or so lessons. It probably doesn't sound like much, but still. I wanted to share. I can't wait to take him into the water at Hervey Bay and show James all the tricks Daniel has learnt.

We have continued to enjoy playing with the ball. He now loves throwing it from standing and his 'ready to catch' stance is just the cutest! His direction with throws is quite coordinated too which is great. I hope that Daniel continues to love sporty things as he grows up.

 

Daniel, are you ready to catch the ball?

This week we have been hanging around at home a bit and Daniel has continued to enjoy playing with his toys. He is starting to have chats on his telephone - picking it up, holding it to his forehead and saying 'hi' and then talking in his Daniel language. 

His bucket head joy has continued but we have progressed to moving around with it on. On Wednesday you needed to have a helmet to drive the car around. Pretty cute to watch (and he was pretty pleased with his invention).

Last night at Mum and Dad's place (last time before they head over to Europe - jealous!!!) Daniel had fun playing with Auntie Jenny and Oscar. Oscar just loves picking on Daniel, and fortunately Daniel just loves it too. Teddies being thrown at him, Pingu chasing, 

Sneaky Pingu cuddles while Oscar is distracted

puppies on the head. Anything Oscar does, Daniel just loves watching.

Auntie Jenny decided to try teaching Daniel how to put a puzzle together and he was doing ok for not having playing with puzzles much before. That will be fun if he likes puzzles like me. We'll have to wait and see I guess.

Daniel has started to be able to show us what an elephant does. Arm and sound included. Again, something that I have just done with him and he has now picked up. They really are such sponges!

Here are just a couple of photos that I thought were very sweet which I took while he was having lunch yesterday.

You need to make sure you get all the food out of the bowl Mummy.

 
Yesterday I had my 2nd appointment with Dr Booker and he was happy with how things are going. My blood pressure is good which he is happy about. He had a look at Squeak on the ultrasound again for now it is starting to look like a baby, not just a blob like last time. You could see its head, spine, arms and legs moving around. Very cute. I'm so glad that it seems to be going well. So my next appointment is in 6 weeks - and then we would have had the proper ultrasound and have those cute pictures for you to see. 
I think I am now past my nausea (touch wood!) which is good. I really didn't enjoy that period this time. Hopefully more energy will start to come back now too as I am in the 2nd trimester.