Trent can now take up to six unsupported steps. I can’t believe it after all of this time. It seems like we have been waiting forever – all of his little friends who are younger than him have already started walking and are now running around him. Trent sits in the middle of them whilst they are running around and looks at me as if to say ‘why can’t I do that?’ We’ve been practising and practising and it has finally paid off. But even now I literally have to prop him up and dad has to coax him towards him with a toy or something of interest – once we stop practising for the day he resorts back to his crawling. I know it will come soon but I can see the frustration in his face and I just want to help him. When dad gets home from work everyday he takes Trent out for a walk, holding his hand to support him, they’ve been doing this for months and we thought that one day he would try and do it by himself but he just isn’t interested.

We’ve now started joking that Roisin will be walking before Trent! But in his defence I think that the appearance of another two teeth has kept him more than occupied. He now has another big double tooth at the bottom, and one at the top, making almost a full set. I’ve also noticed that his vocabulary is improving by the day. ‘Mam’ is his favourite word at the minute, much to dad’s annoyance! He can also say ‘school’ and ‘bye’, and he has a good go at ‘Makka Pakka’. All in all his development seems to be on track. As for baby Roisin she has been an absolute pleasure. They say you never have two babies the same, but our two are both easy-tempered and sleep through the night – we’ve been very lucky.

Walking practise, a proper family affair!

Recently I have been concentrating so hard on helping Trent to learn to walk, that I was astonished to notice he had sprouted three more teeth without anyone even noticing. The teeth are the big double ones, two at the top on each side and one on the bottom left.
As soon as I spotted the teeth I realised that he’d not actually been eating as much recently and that what he had eaten he had really picked at. I’ve also been forever putting bibs on him as he has been slavering so much. Poor thing ¬– now his slow start with walking seems perfectly understandable, he must have been suffering with his teeth and unable to concentrate on anything else.
We decided to take the kids out for the day on Sunday as Trent has had such a hard week suffering in silence with his teeth. We walked to visit his great grandfather who lives in a nearby village, and visited the park and beach café there. It was obviously quite exhausting for the little ones, and they were both asleep by the end so we set off homewards. Trent perked up once we were back so we walked to the local park where he had great fun on the swings. He even got a bit adventurous and wanted to explore the bigger children’s areas.

An adventurous Trent enjoys his outing to the park:

Trent and Dad get in some walking practice:

It all proves a bit exhausting for Roisin:

Fun in the bath after a long day: