My skills

You might be wondering what I can do now.

Can I eat properly on my own?

Well, I CAN, but for some reason mummy doesn't let me very often... can't think why...






































































And what about the old shanks? (Very nearly a year old, in fact... in the outside world, anyway.)




I often lose my leg when crawling. It creeps up and then gets stuck!

















I stand up often.





























































And in different places.













Look! One-handed!



















I stand up at home as well as at Babushka's... but only when I want something.

Antibiotics

This is what I think to antibiotics...



...and after all that. I probably didn't even need them.

Mummy now thinks I probably have measles, only kind ones that don't make me feel really bad. Maybe daddy and mummy will take me to the doctor's again tomorrow, but maybe the spots will be gone by then too! Silly mummy!

Lexl Poxl

I have a lovely new pattern on my body. It looks nice, but it is a bit itchy. Mummy thinks I have Chicken Pox... but I haven't talked to Babushka's chickens for ages... though I ate one not long back. I also have another new tooth coming - mummy says it's a canine and shouldn't be coming just yet. So I have a dog's tooth as well as a chicken's skin... Silly mummy!!!

Peas on earth

Cake

Mummy has had 2 birthday cakes and she hasn't given me any!!! However, I did manage to scrounge some by licking the box!

Not a well boy

I am not a well boy. I am growing new teeth still and my mouth hurts a lot, 'specially in the night. I do lots of crying.

When I was at Babushka's I got more poorly. I got hot. I had a temperature, whatever one of those is. Everyone got very worried and started making things worse by sticking things in my ear and mouth. Auntie Lena gave me a new dody, but it was not very tasty and I think mummy was just trying to check if I still had that temperature thingy. Babushka said I wasn't wearing enough clothes and that I was cold at night, that's why I was a poorly boy, but sometimes it is sooo hot at Babushka's that I sweat and sweat.

In the end I visited a lady in a white coat - a doctor, at the village hospital. She poked me too and stuck a metal thing in my mouth and a cold thing down my vest. I had to get undressed and dressed again... all this while feeling poorly!

Then things got even worse. Mummy and babushka started giving me horrid things to drink. Usually I like my medicine, but this was different: eugh! I spat it out. THEN they started holding my nose. I got a very cross boy.

Sometimes I felt very tired and just lie down. I even got to go in mummy and daddy's bed. I am feeling a little bit better, but my mouth hurts still. The doctor said I have 'angeena' - tonsilitis, but mummy's not sure and I'm not telling!