Roryworld

Rory has started to "babble" a lot. This is some kind of term of art which apparently refers to forming phoneme-type things rather than just gurgling and stuff.

In practice it goes like this...

RORY Bla blah blah bleugh bleugh GMA GMA

ADULT what?

RORY Bla blah blah bleugh bleugh GMA GMA

ADULT Uhu.. what?

RORY Bla blah blah bleugh bleugh GMA GMA

There is some suspicion that he is saying "Excuse me, do you - or anyone else here - speak baby? Dammit it's a perfectly straightforward question..Brain the size of a planet... anyway I appear to have soiled myself - could you have the staff do something about it?.."

If you squint a bit and only listen with one ear you can just about hear Ma and Da coming through. Or at least we can.

Also - he makes a particular face when he does it - turning down the corners of his mouth like Winston Churchill - or creature from the Black Lagoon..

In at five this week...

Holding hands with other babies. Aw! (However, trying to take out the eyes of other babies - that's not so cute).

At four...

Feety battles with cousin Isla on her playmat (she won, and then stole his bunny and rolled off. The shame of it!).

No movement at three...

Trying to crawl. Not managing, obviously. But what a good effort that boy has been putting in. He can't help it if his fat wee tummy is stuck to the ground...

This week's number two...

Chatty baby. Think "Charley says" and you'll have a good idea of his current range of yelps, "whee"s and "woo"s. Also "ma ma ma" and, occasionally, "da". He knows how to butter up his doting parents.

And straight in at number one, yes, you guessed it...

Foot in mouth syndrome - something he may have inherited. (I'm not saying from whom...)

Another baby first - Rory went to a wedding last weekend. A V Posh wedding too. He had a pretty good time being fussed over by about 120 women over the course of the night.

Here he is dancing with his Mum...

Anyway - we all had a lovely time - and hopefully so did Jemima and Occy - who were getting married.

PS I said it was posh - but get a load of this. Here's us at an actual folly-type thing in the grounds..

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Poor old Rory. There's no escape. Already there's a bunch of stuff he's inherited from us...

* Most obviously - he looks like Ali - in fact he really looks like Ali's Mum..




















* Ginger hair - or strawberry blonde/auburn/autumn gold if you're being euphemistic..

* Photic Sneeze reflex - which is a posh name for sneezing at bright lights. This is something Stephen has always done - and Rory does every time we leave the house. Onyways - here's the wiki for it. Quite interesting.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex

* He's v ticklish. As are we. Again these genes my have come disproportionately from Stephen.

* He really likes having his head stroked when he is sleepy. This is still the case for Stephen.

On the other hand - things he didn't get from us include thumb sucking and big hands and feet,,

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