Wow - time flies! Josh is 5.5 months old now. I can't believe it! He is just getting cuter and more funny every day. He gives big gooby sloppy kisses now, and cuddles and a big "Ahhh.." to go with them sometimes. Josh has now mastered the art of putting his dummy in and out of his mouth by himself. He has rolled from front to back several times a few weeks ago but won't do it again at the moment and from back to front a few times too (just last Friday was the first time for that) but won't do that again either! He's recently discovered his feet and loves playing with them. He also loves his mobile above his bed and his little toy which seems to be called "Friend" (for now at least, he may get a better name later!) that his Nan made for him, after he gives mummy a kiss goodnight he gives Friend a kiss too - soooo cute! And if mummy gives Friend a kiss then that makes Josh laugh his head off. Sometimes I make Friend give the little animals on his mobile a kiss too which cracks him up as well. He has a stacker ring and all the rings do different things like crinkle or if you shake them have a rattle noise etc and on the top of the ring is a dinosaur head which Josh also loves and from very early on he used to smile at it (but not as much as he smiled at his sun smiley face toy which was his first ever favourite thing!). I used to put the dino head in his bed with him too - but it had an unfortunate accident and ended up in the washing machine at one point and now lives back on top of the ring stacker. His favourite thing to do now when he is playing is to be in his exersaucer, he has figured out how all of the toys on it work now and loves to jump up and down in it to make it bang too - typical noisy boy! He loves his green frog toy and his lamaze moose too. His favourite thing ever though is to be read to. He LOVES Hairy Maclary and now Slinky Malinki too, Kapai the Kiwi is a close 3rd! He is just starting to touch Mummy's (or Daddy's) nose, cheeks and chin when you ask him where they are. He is trying really hard to sit up and when he is lying on his back he often looks like he's trying to do stomach crunches but if we do sit him up, after a short time he keels over to the side - but it won't be long now I'm sure. Often when he is on his tummy and something he wants is just out of his reach he pulls his legs up under himself so I don't think it'll be too long before crawling starts - but I'm not encouraging that yet! He still scratches himself alot though so we're still wrapping him up and putting mittens on for sleeping - but if he wants to he can get his hands out of the wrap now and take his mittens off too, but usually doesn't. Here is a little video of Josh with his friend Reese Kilpatrick who is 8 weeks younger. We were looking after Reese while his mummy Laura was having her hair cut and when Josh woke up I put Reese in Josh's cot with him and Josh thought it was fantastic having his friend in there too! He kept looking at Reese and laughing and I somehow managed to get the cutest part on video with them holding hands! I think they look adorable.
