Turning on the charm or 12-week jabs

12-week jabs done.

He was wide awake on the journey to the docs, chatting a little once we arrived, so innocent and blissfully unaware of impending nastiness.

As the lovely nurse approached with needle in hand, he smiled disarmingly at her and gurgled, before turning red when the offending item pierced his fat little thigh. He screamed, bottom lip turned out in a pout, hands clinging onto me. Then a second time and the cries got louder.

Finally it was time for cuddles and he gazed up out of my arms at the nurse, tears running down his cheeks, and he tried to smile at her through his unhappy pout.

My brave little man is now sleeping on my lap, occasionally giggling in his sleep.

Howling

Saw this video of a husky puppy trying to howl - soooo funny and cute.

Makes me think of some of the boy's attempts to cry. Pathetically sad...and I have to try not to giggle, while scooping him up in my arms for a cuddle.

Baby steps

Clever boy vomited so effectively into my bra today that he didn't spill a single drop on the rest of my clothes. Had a bit down his own clothes, but the rest was nicely collected in a vomitty pool in my bra.

Today he also tried sitting up for the first time. He was kind of propped up in my nursing pillow and he lifted his head and shoulders up off the pillow straining to lean forward, before eventually settling back quite comfortably.

His final cleverness is laughter. He's been laughing in his sleep a while, but only last week started laughing at the red space monster hanging from his play mat. The other day, the clever boy laughed at a real person. My youngest brother managed to get him to laugh via Skype. Great entertainment. Since then his daddy has managed to make him laugh on numerous occasions too. Clever boy. :-)