Crawling, rolling, juggling

It is so hard to believe that nine and a half months ago, my life was about to take a huge leap into fatherhood. How innocent and unknowing I was then. Fast forward to now and I cannot imagine my life without this little bundle of love called Aimee.Aimee has developed in huge leaps recently. She now plays with toys and examines them rather than eats them or ignore them. She certainly has firm favourites - mainly a couple of furry toys she hugs at night. Yes, the dreaded night time. The pattern seems to be changing. She'll still wake up and cry at various points in the night, but I have put a firm foot down and insisted we do not attend to her needs. It so far seems to be working as Aimee will fuss for about ten minutes, but soon settles and doesn't stir until about 7am.
Cat has built a massive playpen out of TWO BabyDan cages. By linking them both up, there
is still (just) enough room to walk around the perimeter and switch on the TV. Inside, Aimee can roll around to her heart's content. Today, she even crawled for about a foot forward. Its the funiest thing. Her arms and legs were a frenzied blur but her belly remained rooted to the floor, but little by little, she inched forward to finally obtain the object she so desperately craved (some random toy).
With every positive, there is a negative. Aimee is still a massive fusspot when eating and drinking. We are convinced she takes in maybe a fraction of what she should be eating each day. But she has developed a whole raft of cunning techniques to avoid us getting the spoon into her mouth. We battle every day with this, and it frustrates us enormously. But, I guess somehow she does get enough to eat cos she seems healthy enough.On Tuesday this week, we put Aimee into the nursery for a few hours. This will be her very first time in the hands of strangers. It'll probably be me and Cat freaking out with nerves and hysterics rather than Aimee - who is more than happy with strangers. But it needs to be done. In a week, Cat goes back to work and thus begins a new chapter in our lives - the dual working parent juggling act.


A hyped Aimee inside the 'cage'