Monday, September 28, 2009

Amhlaoibh 9 and 1/2 months - already!

Return of the Prodigal Blogger

Well, I've been a terrible blogger really. Always with the great intentions but the execution is not quite so easy sadly. Must try to do better.

Little Amhlaoibh is now 9 and 1/2 months! Where has the last year gone? I drove past the trees lining the entrance to our estate today and noticed some of them looking bare already. Wasn't it last week there were lovely fresh green buds appearing on those branches? I hope this isn't an indication of what life with our little guy is going to be like. It's going too fast - too many little things passing by so quickly. But always being replaced by new, exciting changes. Everyday the little fella can do something he couldn't do yesterday.

Now he's walking along the furniture, has moments where he stands alone. He's chattering away - mama, dada, and lots of variations on the theme with great changes in pitch and tone so it really sounds like a little conversation. He's got a definite personality of his own - happy, smiling but adventurous, fearless and knows what he wants - and not afraid to fight for it! It sounds like a handful but they are powerful traits that I hope someday he can channel into a fulfilled, satisfying life.

We play with his towering pots, his plastic coloured balls, his green tractor, his Thomas the Tank Engine flap book and sometimes just with the wicker basket they are all stored in! He laughs, giggles, babbles, chews, points, tries to give me his toys, takes them back again, puts things into pots, takes things out of pots -over and over! I'm sorry if it bores you to hear about this but everytime he does something, I'm fascinated that a few weeks ago, it was foreign to him. How absorbed he gets in putting a small basket on his head (his new trick). How he'll peek out from behind something to encourage me to play peek-a-boo with him. How he knows when he tries to open a kitchen cupboard to look up at me to see if I'll tell him "No - that's not for babies" and give a little cheeky grin.

For mum, I'm back at work full time, finishing my training. Have another three months to complete everything and then let loose into the big bad world to find a real job! Hey I've made a brand new little person - how hard can it be??!!

Thursday, September 10, 2009