the many faces of leon

Much free standing, this weekend - these pictures are from last weekend but were suspended on Tobs phone.

He will walk one handed but prefers 2 hands because he can practically run. He will use anyone he can get his hands on, one of my tasks at the moment is when requested walk round the house. It's clear that the small one is the puppet master.

He now understands how books work and instead of getting annoyed because he turns a page or closes the book but can't work out where the image has gone, he seems to be more comfortable with the idea that they are flat now.

He opens his dragons book by himself and points at the dragons and opens the flaps, it sounds like he's making up his own story the twittering going on.

Same goes with the 'that's not my robot' book upstairs - this is the one that really upset him because he couldn't work out where the robots went when the book closed.

I got him a drum at the NCT sale among other things, he's pretty good at pounding it and everything else in reach. The soft toys in his cot are now his friends, this is a real turn up for the books as he happily plays for about half an hour in the morning, I can hear him awake but squeaking and babbling. It looks like he's dropping his afternoon sleep, yesterday and today, he won't sleep in the afternoon. He went to bed an hour early, asleep before his head hit the pillow yesterday, so I guess unless he does get a sleep before about 3.30, it will be the same story tonight. It's a pain, he's really grumpy by tea time. I will keep trying the after lunch sleep, I hope this his more to do with his teeth. I think the front two teeth wont be long, he's playing with the gum with his fingers, there are grey white spots where the teeth would be and they feel tender. He's pretty grumpy today and has a short fuse if the toy/book/mother doesn't cooperate. I'm pushing the pram back and forth at the second attempt at getting him to sleep. Not looking likely, the grumpiness that usually means tiredness is not accompanied by eye rubbing.

I chased the estate agent up for feedback on the last two viewings of our house. It looks like the very last one is still a possibility. The house we want wont take it off the market until this one sells. Trouble is Ely has a dozen houses just like this on the market right now so apart from the obvious presentation improvement we already made. The next step is to bring the price down a bit maybe.

I've given up on getting Leon to sleep and am letting him watch a bit of telly while I have something to eat. Time to clear up and give him some more cuddles and playing time before Ellen and Dan arrive in a bit.