Walking (and some climbing)

So, it turns out Gabriel can walk. A bit. He does quite a lot of trying to walk, and quite a lot of falling over after a few steps. So far his record is 10 steps, which was to try and get my fake ice cream. I mean, if you're going to walk you might as well have a good goal right??

It also turns out that Gabriel is rather better at climbing than he is at walking. And, as he's quite good at walking then you can just go ahead and use your imagination as to how brilliant he is at climbing!

No? well I'll give you an example then. Tonight I put him into bed and then went downstairs to try and sort out the screaming mass of fury also known as Linus. Whilst downstairs we heard some banging going on in Gabriel's general direction. We tend to ignore this kind of thing, because if we don't it means we have to climb the stairs. Presently though, he began crying so Bob went up to see what was the matter.

Poor little baby crying in his cot? banging the bars? trying to climb out?? oh nooo. Not Gabriel. Bob discovers the devil child banging away on the bedroom door to be let out. He has:

1.) climbed over the side of the cot onto our bed (we presume)

2.) climbed off the bed, silently. (bed is at least 2ft off the floor)

3.) wandered on over to the door to try and find us all and join in the screamy fun.

What a funny little fellow we think, as we let him crawl around while Linus gets ready for bed and has his bedtime story.

Turns out that Gabriel can also climb up the ladder to get into Linus's midsleeper bed.

Be scared. Be very scared.

Standing

Gabriel has been so very busy over the past few weeks.

He had his naming day, where there were lots of people - we have pictures, but these are the only couple that we have managed to post.

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He is pulling himself up, but only just standing without hanging-on to anything.

The sleeping is getting a bit better, less night-time interruption, but still not sleeping through.

It'll be his birthday soon.

Crawling

Over the past week Gabriel had started to crawl properly - he gets his legs under him most of the time and is sometimes found some way from where he was last left.

In order to prevent Bad Things happening we have assembled the big baby cage by the window. He is starting to pull himself up, and we found him yesterday holding the bars in the traditional 'prisoner' position.

THIS is how you use it

I left Gabriel playing "nicely" on his playgym the other day while I was busy doing something/nothing with Linus. The playgym is supposed to be a nice padded mat, with soft bars that arc over it and have toys dangling off for him to grab at and play with.

Gabriel doesn't like to play with toys in the usual way though apparently. I looked over and found this:

You can just see the corner of his mouth in the picture. The corner of what appears to be a big grin.

With some trepidation I opened what was left of the playgym and found this:

Rolling-over

On Saturday evening I suggested that Gabriel would be rolling-over soon. Seconds later he rolled-over..... Now, I know that being able to roll-over is a very important developmental milestone and deserves lots of praise and attention... but I predicted the future dammit!

Anyway - here is this week's picture :