Josiah's Diary - March 17th

Ugh, my gums hurt. Mummy says I'm teething which means I will get teeth soon. I think getting teeth is supposed to be exciting but I'm not too excited right now - I just want the pain to go away. My cheeks are hot and red, my gums hurt and I've got a sore rash on my chin from all the dribbling I've been doing recently. The pain is making me grumpy and some days it's hard to concentrate on playing cos all I want to do is poke my gums and chew on stuff to try to find a way to ease my discomfort.

Mummy's been looking on the internet to find ideas for things to help with the pain so she keeps handing me all kinds of weird things to chew on. The other day she suggested we try some stuff called teething gel.  When she showed me the tube I had a good old chew on it but apparently that's not how it's supposed to work. Next thing I know mummy had her fingers in my mouth poking my gums and putting some horrible tasting stuff in my mouth. My mouth felt weird, I was swallowing all this funny stuff and I just really didn't like it. I cried and cried and cried so we haven't tried that stuff again since.

Another time mummy gave me a frozen wash cloth to chew on while I tried to fall asleep. It did help a bit but when I woke up it was all unfrozen and my bed and sleeping bag were wet so that wasn't so good.

Chewing on people's fingers is really good and it's fun putting lots of different people's hands in my mouth to find ones with just the right size fingers - but daddy said I'm not supposed to try to eat people I don't know.

Once mummy gave me an old wooden spoon to chew on and that was quite good. I've also found a rattle with chunky plastic squares that seems to help. I think my favourite so far though is chewing on the edge of tables. It's great when I find a table just right to get my whole mouth round the edge and have a good chew - ah relief!

Josiah's Diary - March 12th 2013

Guess what? I now have my very own bedroom! That means no more being woken up by mummy and daddy coming to bed and no more listening to daddy snoring while I have my night time milk. My room is a bit darker than mummy and daddy's room but it's ok cos mummy lets me have a night light on. I let teddy share my room with me so I don't get lonely and so I have a friend to play with when I wake up in the morning. Daddy says that when Uncle Dan comes to visit in a couple of weeks he's not gonna be happy with me cos I've stolen his bedroom. Never mind, I'm sure if I flash him a super cute smile he will soon forgive me.

My daddy is pretty awesome and can do lots of cool stuff. We have lots of fun play fighting together. Today he did this magic bird thing with his hands that I just couldn't work out how he was doing it. Mummy got it on video...

See - my daddy is pretty amazing eh?!

Josiah's diary - March 10th 2013

What a busy few weeks I've had - so much to see and do and learn.

A couple of weeks ago I learnt how to sit up all by myself without mummy and daddy helping. It's so much easier to play with things and reach stuff I want now. And if I lean forward far enough I can touch my toes and even put them in my mouth - amazing!

The last few weeks mummy and daddy have let me try quite a lot of food. It's so much fun trying new things and I like that they let me hold it myself cos it gives me chance to practise my grip.  My favourites so far are pineapple, strawberries, banana, bread and grapes (though mummy won't let me hold those myself yet). I also really like sharing mummy's yoghurt but she thinks the one I ate the other day might be the reason I projectile vomited in such spectacular fashion in the back of the car.

We've started having breakfast together as a family every day now. Mummy and daddy have their porridge and I have mine and we all curl up in bed together and eat and have snuggles after. Mummy keeps trying to feed the porridge to me and I keep trying to tell her to just give me the spoon. I'm a big boy now, I'm sure I can manage a spoon by myself!  This morning at breakfast mummy handed me a spoon and I thought 'finally, she got the message' and began excitedly waving it around. But my spoon didn't have any food on it and mummy had a spoon in her hand that did have food on it. Well, as soon as I realised she had the one with the food I dropped my spoon and grabbed the one in her hand - mmmm, yummy.

Last week I went on holiday with mummy, daddy, grandma and grandad. We did so much in just a few days - it was pretty intense!

One day we went to the zoo and I got to see monkeys and zebras and a giraffe and llamas and .... so many animals. I got to touch some of them too. Sheep are really nice and soft but I didn't like when they licked me. There was also a great play park at the zoo. Daddy really loved playing on the slides and sometimes he even let me play on them with him. Slides are lots of fun. I think my favourite was the ball pool - being surrounded by all these colourful things that are great to chew on.

Another day we all went out for lunch with Auntie Laura and Uncle David. I was supposed to be taking a nap while they all ate but I didn't want to miss the chance to try everyone's food.  I had some really nice bread and tried this stuff called cucumber too. It's easy to hold so that is good but it doesn't really taste of much so I didn't bother eating it.

By the end of the week I was pretty exhausted and grumpy. In fact if I'm honest I've had a pretty cranky few days since we got home. People don't seem to realise how tiring it is learning all this new stuff - it's a lot of hard work! Mummy has this annoying habit of waking me up if she thinks I'm sleeping too much in the day which didn't help either. Plus I slept badly in the car on the way home from holiday too. Thankfully mummy cut me some slack yesterday and let me catch up on some sleep so now I feel well rested and ready to go learn some more things. Bring on play group tomorrow!!!