Cole: "what i would look like if..."

... my nose was a square
... my nose was a triangle

I'm not quite sure whether this holding things in the mouth with his teeth is a normal stage or something he's picked up from the dog perhaps?!! Either way it's pretty funny and today was the first time I was able to get pictures of him doing it. I'd say his favourite thing to hold in his mouth is his little soccer ball (pics below).

It's been a good week here. We had a couple playgroup meetups this week that we went to... one at Jungeroo an indoor playcentre and another at one of the girls houses for some delicious muffins and mimosas! Other than that as far as activities go it's been alot of running around doing errands since Jeff has had to work all last weekend and will be working all this weekend as well. Cole's teething pain seemed to have lessened for the moment and we are enjoying the break from it while it lasts. At the end of last week I had started feeling pretty down... although the initial thought of weaning Cole was happy due to a little more freedom I also really started to feel upset about it. For the first 3 mths things were incredibly difficult with his colic, the next 3 mths trying as well with his refusal to nap (thank goodness for the discovery of a loud static radio-- still working well!) and then following this, his feeding time slowly creeping down from an hour to a very manageable and exciting 15 minutes!! So, basically what I'm trying to say is that after all that, the past 3 mths have been SOOO great and incredibly enjoyable and I was just worried that by changing anything that might also not stay quite the same. But it hasn't, of course, and now I'm much more settled about everything. Cole is now down to one breastfeeding each morning and the rest of the day he is doing well with his bottles of homo milk. Next week he should be switched entirely to milk.