6 months old

Charlie was 6 months old yesterday and will be going for his 6 month check up tomorrow. Charlie seems to be hitting all his expected development milestones.

1-6 month milestones that we have been following are here:

http://www.babycentre.co.uk/baby/development/milestonesfirst6months/

Charlie can only sit up for a few seconds unaided, but I would imagine that within a week or so he will be able to sit up by himself for a reasonable amount of time. He is just beginning to come out with consonant sounds and think I heard something like "baba" today. We have been teaching him "mummy" and "daddy" so am unsure who or what baba is.

Charlie's legs are strengthening so a couple of weeks ago we bought him the thing in the picture above. He loves it!!

Going to the Zoo

Apart from his 10 minute push around the block before I go to work every morning Charlie doesn't get out of the house much. Because of this, last weekend, I decided it was high time Charlie went to the zoo. The Ho Chi Minh City zoo is definitely nothing to shout about, but at least it was an outing.

By the time we got to the zoo it was already quite hot and Charlie was getting tired so I didn't have that high hopes for the success of this trip, but as it was only about 60 pence for the 3 of us to go in it wasn't going to be too much of a waste of money whatever happened after going through the turnstiles.

We were only in the zoo for about 40 minutes in total and during that time Charlie saw a few of the animals. He appeared to be interested in some, but not in others.

In hindsight I think he is a little too young to do such a trip at the moment so will probably hold off doing it again for a few months.

Didn't take the camera.

Birthday Party

A couple of weeks ago Charlie and Hien attended one of Hien's family's birthday parties. Pictures above were taken there.

Charlie the scholar (3 May)

These were pictures that I tried to post on the first blog on 3 May, but I was unable to do so.

As soon as Charlie was presented with the above book he reached out for it and started handling it. I think this was really the first time I saw him reach out for anything. When he is given the book these days he tries to stick it in his mouth.

He is pretty handy with the ball as well now and can really kick it very well.

Continuing on from first blog

After much perseverance with the last blog I just gave up on it as no matter how many times I tried, despite it saying I had only used about 1% of the usable space, it just wouldn't let me post any more pictures. As posting pictures was the most important reason for the blog in the first place I have decided to give up on that blog, start a new one and hope that this one serves me better.

The first blog can be reached here: http://mjgodwin.blogspot.com/

As the first blog hasn't been working for some time I have been decidedly lazy in taking pictures of Charlie, but if this blog works as I as I am hoping it will I'll be taking more pictures.