Last week Nathan rolled from his back to his tummy for the first time. Getting to his side is easy, but going further takes a fair bit of effort, and the hardest part is moving the arm that he rolls onto! Still, with lots of effort and concentration he gets there. He also knows to tense his body when we say ‘up, up’ because he’s going to get picked up. He can be very talkative, with new sounds regularly being vocalised.
Nathan went for his first swimming session yesterday. We went to the indoor pool at Maroubra which is about 32 degrees and joined a small group of mothers and babies; there were 5 of each. It was all about singing songs and doing different actions with the babies. Oh, and lots of dunking babies. To dunk, we had to blow into the baby’s face so that he shut his eyes, and then he got dunked. I didn’t do it to Nathan, but the man taking the class dunked him twice. I thought that was enough for his first lesson since he wasn’t looking too happy after the second time. The other babies were all dunked numerous times. I was told that Nathan did really well, as babies often are very vocal in their dislike of being dunked for the first time.
