Walking Video

Here is some video of Charlotte walking. Sorry but you also get to see her stuffing her face with banana. Enjoy!

Charlotte the Builder

We have been outside this afternoon in between showers doing some building. Andrew is building a shelter for the firewood and I have been planting the vege garden and my pots. It's only taken almost 18 months to getting around to doing it. We are also going to be so organised this year by buying our firewood for next year soon. That way we will have dry firewood for the whole winter.

Charlotte has had a great time following us around and assisting us.

Officially Walking

Well I told mum and dad that as soon as they went away on holiday Charlotte would start to walk and she did. She has been taking about 1/2 dozen steps for the past month, but this last week she has become a lot more confident and it walking more and more each day. She still crawls if she is in a real hurry. Otherwise she attempts to go walking. She still isn't too good at getting across the entrance way in her socks - it is a bit slippery. She is also relying less on her cart. She quite often just leaves it to walk over to something. Her new thing with the cart is to put things in it to take to another part of the house. Charlotte is also into picking things up and taking them for a walk. My shoe made it back to the bedroom the other day.

Here are a few photos from the park yesterday. She isn't too confident on uneven surfaces yet. We have video also of Charlotte going down the slide, but I have forgotten how I got video on here last time. If you are lucky Yvonne, your brother might put it onto DVD and send it over - but don't hold your breath.

I can feed myself - thank you

Charlotte has been feeding herself finger foods for quite a few months now, but we have still been feeding her foods that require a spoon such as mushed up veges, yoghurt and muesli. Last week she decided that she was a big girl and that she was going to feed herself these foods. She would let up fill the spoon, but then she would take it and put the food in her mouth. She was then very reluctant to give back the spoon for more filling so we then had two spoons.

Eating this way isn't the tidiest as you can see by the pictures.

Our next aim is to get her to eat chunks of veges. She will eat chunks of meat and fruit, but at the moment she still prefers her veges to be mashed.