First Tooth

Brendon cut his first tooth yesterday. Took him to the doctors as he still has a nasty cough, but it's not in his chest so just have to keep an eye on it. Mum comes over in just over two weeks, can't wait, she hasn't seen Brendon since he was 3 1/2 weeks old!

It's been a busy week...

Well, according to the calendar, Brendon isn't due for a Wonder Week yet, but it may as well have been for all the new things he is doing. For a few weeks now he has been doing baby sign language for Eency Weency Spider but has just started signing Five Little Ducks as well. The big excitement this week was when he started signing 'milk'.
He has also started dancing, jiggling along to any tunes on the radio or to Mum and Dad's singing. At times he looks like he is trying to clap.
Mathew has taught Brendon how to do High 5's.
I looked in Brendon's mouth yesterday and it looks like he is cutting a tooth.
On Thursday last week, Brendon woke up not his usual happy self. He was off his solids, thirsty, hot, grizzly, sleepy and appeared to have a stomach ache. I took him to the doctors and they said he had a virus. That night I had diarrhoea and the next morning Brendon did too. I took him to the hospital to get him checked out, but they said the same thing... just a virus and to keep an eye on it. He had a fever for three days and the virus has now shown itself to be a cold. He has a runny nose and throaty sounding cough. The fever is over and his appetite has resumed. Brendon spent two nights sleeping in our room in his car seat (in the bassinet position) as sleeping flat on his back made breathing too difficult for him. Last night he slept in his own bed and only woke once for a feed.
With Brendon's fever making him thirsty, being able to sign for milk was a bonus, as he was able to let me know when he wanted some especially as it wasn't usually at a
time I would offer it to him.

First word

Today there were a couple of times when I would say 'Mum, mum, mum' to Brendon and he would repeat it to me. I was pretty excited about that.
Last week he slept through the night again, but recently has been waking twice a night and not resettling, needing a feed to get back to sleep again.
He is keeping us entertained with his range of sounds that he is making at the moment.
We sold our caravan on the weekend. I was sad to see it go, but the people that bought it were very excited and I am happy that it has gone to a good home.

Sitting up

Brendon is now sitting unsupported, but you still need to be sitting with him as he isn't very steady, and hasn't worked out how to go from sitting to lying down yet.

7 months

I took Brendon to the clinic today to be weighed and measured, as it has been a month since he has been there. He is now 9.46 kg (in the 75th percentile) and 74 cm tall (almost in the 97th percentile). He spends all day blowing raspberries and commando crawling. The other day he did sit unsupported for about 10 seconds or so. We had Mother's Group here on Monday and he got upset at the other babies playing with his toys. It is the first time he has done that.
He is really enjoying his swimming lessons now and doesn't even cry when he goes underwater.

Getting about

On Tuesday I went to the dentist to have a filling replaced. I asked the dentist about breastfeeding after having an anaesthetic and got the impression it would be ok. When I got home it was Brendon's bed time. My mouth was still numb and I fed Brendon and put him to bed for the night. Well, he slept until 6:15 the following morning! I don't know if the anaesthetic had something to do with that or not? It would have been even better if I hadn't woken at 3am as I couldn't get back to sleep. Since then he has been back to waking once or twice per night.
His cheeks are very red and everyone who looks at him says "He must be teething." These teeth seem to take forever to come through!
Brendon has now discovered that he can drag himself along the floor boards. The other day he must have moved about 3m around the loungeroom floor chasing his toy car which kept rolling further away everytime he touched it.

Easter

Mathew, Brendon and I went away with the Moke Club to the Black Cockatoo Bush Camp at Naracoorte. It's a campsite set up in a paddock and is the third time we have been there. For Brendon's first camping trip, he handled it really well. It took us a few nights to figure out how to make him warm enough at night. He seemed to enjoy it, especially discovering grass and dirt, but wasn't happy that I wouldn't let him eat any of it!
We borrowed a camper trailer that we were considering buying as we are selling our caravan. However, we found that this particular camper trailer was a bit small, with room enough for a portacot, but no room for a growing boy.
There were plenty of volunteers to give Brendon cuddles or mind him, especially Barb, who was willing to grab him at any available opportunity.
Brendon is really trying to crawl. He has figured out he can move forward and around, and is trying hard to perfect the technique. The only bit he needs to work out is that it works better with his stomach off the ground.