8 weeks today!

Today began with yet another early morning walk for Steph and Curtis around Maxwell park, this time in spite of the rain. Curtis then had a very relaxed and peaceful day staying asleep in his pram from 8.30-almost 11am! He must have been building up energy to debut some of his new skills today which included shouting out loudly, holding his own head up about 95% of the time and batting at things held in front of him. He seems to have reached several new milestones in his development in the past few days and was a delight to spend the day with today, not really crying at all. About 10 days ago he wouldn't have spent longer than 30 seconds under his activity arch but today his face lit up when I put him under there...possibly encouraged by the fact that by putting him there on his beloved changing mat he was able to stay there with his nappy off, which always puts him in a good mood. I'd never seen him seemingly bat at something intentionally before and he did this several times...but mainly with his left hand...part of a left hand trend we've noted with him in recent weeks.

The sun came out at lunchtime so I took the chance to go for another walk around the park, then in the afternoon I found a new place to put him for his tummy time...it worked at treat and as you can see he looked quite cute too!

For some reason today I was really struck by just how much more he begins to look like his dad too.