Eli has learnt to grab at four months (a month earlier than Grace) and that means having him on your lap during meal times is a bit more difficult…or you just have to eat with your food far away from you.

Our little boy also managed to go to sleep all on his own! Once. For most of this year he has been fighting with me when I try to help put him down in the evenings. If I held him he would just keep crying until mommy came to save the day. At some point I just started putting him down in his bed – because he didn't cry then – and then he started to fall asleep in his bed with some patting. Then one day Donné puts him down and goes out of the room for a while to allow him to settle. Things were quiet so she went to check, and there he is sleeping. Obviously since then we've been having more hassles putting him down, but that is just how parenting goes.

I'm proud of our boy! He is developing nicely. Now he needs to start working on dropping a feed in the middle of the night.