babyblog

In which H learns to kneel

As it says on the lid, H is now kneeling at every opportunity (with a gleeful look on his face!), sits back on his heels, no hands, and grins. He's crawling properly (although still prefers the 'commando' style for speed), pulling up on everything, pulling to standing against stairs, climbing stairs, grabbing everything in his reach, and generally being completely full of mischief (in a loveable way, of course!). If told NO he looks around with the biggest smile and continues anyway!

There's definite speech attempts too. MAMAMAMAMA (me, obviously). DIN DIN (dylan), DADADA (daddy), TAAAAAAAAAAA (thanks), DOYDOYDOY (not sure), MMMMMMM (give that to me NOW!) and lots of amusing squealing across several octaves to see what his voice can do.

We have had a busy week thus far with trips out with the Britpack. It's funny ...I feel more British here than I have in a long time. In Canada we were foreigners amongst locals and basically had to adapt alot of language and attitudes to if not fit in, at least make ourselves understood without having to go back over things multiple times. Here I'm hanging out with tons of Brits which is strange - but so nice! Everyone's in the same boat, everyone's there to help or offer advice, and everyone's excellent and a great laugh. I have been at home approximately 5 mins all week which is not enough! I need to take some time out at some point because there are things to be organised in preparation for becoming a home owner again at the end of next week.

Speaking of which, I can't wait to get out of this temporary place. It's free and all, but I'm tired of not having my own space or my own things around me. I'm tired of it being too hot at night - although one of my new brit mates told me of a neat trick involving a window and a fan and we had our first comfortable night last night - and I'm tired of the clutter and mess involved in being somewhere temporary. I can wait, however, for the bills to start streaming in!

We get the house at the end of next week but we're not actually moving in for another week after that because we are having the wooden floors laid, and then the stuff delivered over a 2 day period, so it'll be the following friday before we get in there.

I just had the oddest 'I'm going to faint' sensation. The whole room suddenly seemed to swing sideways and now Im dizzy as fuck. Weird.

Maybe something to do with going to see the Chiropractor earlier? My back has been really sore for the last few weeks and getting worse so I had to get my finger out and find one. He took X Rays and did some adjustments.

Wow that was really strange.

I'd better go offline.