My little boy is 5 months old already!!  And he is essentially crawling….not a solid crawl that an older baby would do, but he gets up onto his hands and knees and tries hard to coordinate his arms and legs.  He moves his legs and it pushes him over so that he face-plants the floor.  He often goes backwards, but does also go forwards, but whatever the direction he can well and truely move.

This video was also taken recently and it always makes me laugh at his facial expressions.

Toby still isn’t particularly happy when in the car, particularly in the afternoons at any time of day (I realised today, after a particularly bad car trip, that it’s been a while since he’s been happy in the car in the morning).  His cradle cap seems to be disappearing slowly, not that it was ever very bad.  He has also been in the pool a couple of times now and he seems to like it.

Toby shows a lot of interest in our water bottles and food, so I have given him a couple of sticks of steamed (but still firm) carrot to suck on, and also a corn cob after I had eaten off the corn.  He loves sucking on them, but his coordination isn’t great and he keeps dropping them.

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