That told me...

And tonight when I was running the bath, the baby started screaming again. When I called down and asked my toddler why, his swift reply was "He wants his mummy".

Blowing raspberries

Running the children's bath last night, I had left the boys in the lounge - the baby in his playnest and the 2 year-old watching CBeebies. I heard the baby start crying, but thought he would be OK as my toddler would give him a toy to play with or entertain him in some other way. The crying got louder and louder though and there was no response to my shouts, so I went to investigate...and found my toddler staring into space sitting on the side of the playnest with his feet and a 'body pillow' on the baby who was lying on his tummy getting squashed. My toddler was apparently oblivious to the screams and my shouts and when I asked him if he could hear the baby screaming, he looked at me blankly! No wonder he doesn't hear him at night.

The baby is now clapping, trying to talk and sitting up independently - well almost - he still needs cushions around him as he has a tendency to dive-bomb for anything that looks vaguely interesting. He is also a world champion raspberry blower!

I completely imagined his third tooth. He still has just the two at the bottom, although it doesn't seem to be hindering him eating. Like most babies, he absolutely loves rice cakes and breadsticks and has taken 'lumpy' food in his stride. To my amazement he even eats fruit. I didn't believe all these people who say that babies love fruit...my first son has never liked bananas and was OK with fruit until I stopped pureeing it. Since then he refuses to eat any fruit...and we have tried everything...from apples to strawberries to mango to grapes...although the dried variety of any fruit is a favourite of his (even bananas)!