Newsletter Aug-Sept 2012 - Parents Centres New Zealand Inc

A week in my life
This newsletter is very Mummy and Daddy centric and I wanted to give us smaller family members
a voice. My grandparents are spread all over the world so most weeks I write to them to give them
an update on what I have been up to. Obviously I dictate these to Mummy because I know
only the letters M, O and G, and she knows all 26. Enjoy!
Sent: Sat 13/03/10 16:22
From: Harrison Young
To: My Grandparents
Subject: Austin Powers, life IS all shits
and giggles
Hi Grandparents
The immortal words of Austin Powers, International Man
of Mystery, were “life is not all shits an giggles”.
Well in my vast experience (10 weeks now, can you
believe I have hit double figures already?!?), life
IS all shits and giggles. This week has been SO FUNNY
as a result.
Mummy and Daddy have been playing nappy roulette
where they compete to see who will win the present I
put into my nappy for them. And I have a giggle when
they get the surprise when they open my nappy. Mummy
had a particularly good win a couple of days ago when
she saw my present to her, then as she was getting a
new nappy I decided to give her a bonus present, and to cap it off I decided
to show her how I can make a fountain with my boy bits. Just in case she
missed it, I decided to show her the fountain twice. It was so funny and I
could not stop grinning!
When Daddy got home from work the other night he started playing games with
me and poking his tongue out at me. This was so funny I started giggling at
him and he giggled back at me so we played this game for quite some time
until I firmly reminded him I was hungry and he decided to feed me.
I am getting very strong in spite of Mummy not giving me the right type of
tummy time. I can sit up when someone carries me from my room to the dining
room and not loose balance too often. But apparently while Mummy is
impressed with me doing the locust yoga position the infant development
person frowned on this and called it “sky diving”, which does not build
up my neck strength. I also have a disadvantage in that I did not want to
get a head rush when I was living inside Mummy’s tummy and stayed head up
for so long. So Mummy has been putting me on a rolled up towel when I have
tummy time and I can lift my head up for brief periods. I have included a
photo of me lifting my head. Mummy is also working on my “planter reflex”
that I need to crawl, again something I have a small disadvantage in because
Dereck pulled me out of Mummy’s tummy and I did not need to push myself out.
I have a new yoga pose this week, “legs up against the wall”, which is when
I lift my legs at 90 degrees to my body. I especially like doing this when
I am telling Mummy and Daddy I am really hungry and it seems to make them
nervous so they scurry around and get my meal ready quick smart.
We have started a lot of singing and sing “Wheels on the Bus” most play
times. I also move my arms and legs according to the song e.g. round and
round for the wheels, side to side for the wipers etc. Mummy likes to hang
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