Half way to the first birthday!

Christopher has pasted the 6 month mark and is showing every sign of increasing the number of grey hairs I have. He has now progressed to the big bath, great fun for him, however, back breaking and rib bruising for me. Sitting crouched over the bath for half an hour while he splashes and plays is hell on the back, and the periodic lunches across the bath to catch him when he decides that leaving a face impression in the side of the bath is a REALLY good idea; are playing hell with the ribs. We tried him in the sitting ring, but as he is sitting up pretty well by himself he found it more frustrating than helpful.

He is also having great time playing with his tug boats, I'm a little worried that there may be some form of illicit drug in the glue they used for the stickers, he seems to get far too much pleasure out of licking his tug boats, and as you can see from the picture he gets a very laid back attitude after licking his tug-boats. Our son the tug-boat addict!

He also got his first front tooth a little after his 6 month birthday, and today his second bottom front tooth has come out. So the bath routine has now been supplemented by a gum wipe with special little towels, well I suppose that is a lot easier than using a tiny little tooth brush!

We bought him a swing and he loves being pushed in the swing, with the weather warming up he is starting to experience the great wildness that is Africa, or at least the profusion of weeds we call a lawn.

The only problem is that I think our son is a rastafarian, it is not so much the way he talks as the fascination he has with grass. So far the smoking part has not dawned on him, but the eating is definitely high on his priority.

He is also getting FAR too mobile, between rolling around and starting to crawl he is getting to places we don't want him to be. Ok, the crawling is maybe a bit generous, he is able to get up onto all fours and then to fall down again. The resultant net gain of forward movement is only a couple of centimeters. However, with persistence this is enough to make sure that we are never confident of finding him where we left him. I strongly think that I need to start looking at the practicalities of the bungee-babysitter.