Walking

Beth has really come on in the last couple of weeks. She can clap, wave and laughs all the time. She especially likes her toes and chin getting tickled or a big raspberry blown on them. She smiles whenever Neive walks by. She can get anywhere she wants either by commando crawling or walking around furniture. She can pull herself up and eats mostly the same meals as us. It feels like last month I had a baby and this month a wee toddler.

Neive was a brilliant eater. She ate lots and there was hardly any mess. She never wanted to play with food and would just open her mouth wide to fit it all in. Beth is totally the opposite! She doesn't eat a lot of food but loves to feel it, throw it, squish it an generally just make a really big mess. I feel my days are taken up with making breakfast, feeding everyone breakfast, cleaning up and mopping floor after breakfast, then making lunch, feeding lunch and then an hour cleaning it all up again. etc. I know that I should persevere as I believe Neive is such a clean eater now because I let her practise a lot as a baby. But it's really hard watching your kids make such a mess as you know it'll take you ages to clean it all up afterwards!

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I took a video about 10 days ago and you can see Beth starts to use the walker. Today she was standing unaided for about 15 seconds and pulling herself up on doors. I can see her wee mind ticking saying shall I go for it! The reason baby falls from her walker at the end of the video is a headbutt from Neive. (Beth will get her own back) Actually, this is a game they play together. Neive headbutts Beths bum and she burst out giggling. Neive continues to do this till she eventually knocks Beth over where she burst our crying!

Neive is desperate for her baby sister to be able to play more. We all had a game of hide and seek yesterday and I hid Beth behind the curtain (of course she crawled back out of there before Neive counted to 10) One day though - very soon.