Screw tops

It might not seem a big thing, but the little one has learned to open screw tops. At first, I thought it was a fluke, but he's done it about four times now - not that I've seen him do it, I've just seen the after effects.

I've been pretty sure he's teething again (10th one on its way - his gums look like snowy covered jelly mountains - white lumps of teeth beneath all over the place), and his achievement today confirmed this. While making his dinner (tiny mushy pasta stars with cheese sauce) and arranging an array of teething-friendly items on a tray (plain yoghurt, fruity fromage frais, cold grapes, cold cucumber, cold tomatoes), I let him play with a pot of frozen sweet potato mash cubes and parsnip mash cubes (which I was planning to heat up and feed to him, as another teething-friendly mushy item). Anyway, next time I looked down at the floor, he'd opened the (screw lid) pot and was happily munching on a frozen sweet potato cube. He appears to have eaten the entire thing (which was quite large), other than the bits all over his face and hands (which ended up on my white jim-jam trousers). I was most impressed with the opening achievement as well as the eating of the item - and it's given me an idea of what to give him next time he's in terrible teething pain.

Anyway, it seemed to help him massively and he's managed to sleep again by a rather earlier time of 6.30pm (he did the same yesterday and slept until 6am - with around 5-6 wake ups in between that required 'mama' (boob) and a snuggly place under my armpit.