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Babycake has had quite a day. First of all he has mastered the art of turning and pushing himself, flopping gasping fish out of water style, out of the rubber ring thingy we have used for the last couple of months so that we can GET ON. I turned my back for a second. I swear to God I was watching him, I was even in the same room, but somehow he managed to flip flop and suddenly he was reaching for the magazines and books on the kitchen shelf. He nearly got them too. Of course, I had to rush and get a video camera so that I could record his efforts. Oh, okay, I did leave the room for a second to get the camera. The second big event is that he has cut his first tooth. I was feeding him some banana this afternoon. I usually just break off bits and put them in his mouth. I had just put a bit of banana into his mouth when suddenly he grabbed my finger and pulled it into his mouth. If you could see him when he does this, you wouldn't find it difficult to believe that he hasn't eaten for weeks and has resorted to cannibalism. As he was chomping on my finger, I felt the rough ridge of a tiny, teeny, tooth poking through. How cute is that? Of course, I immediately warned Mrs McMuffin, because he has recently taken to chewing her nipples. I had to own up the other day and admit that since I have been looking after him and feeding him by bottle, we like to play a little game where I pretend to pull the bottle from his mouth, while he bites the teat to hold on to it. It always gives him a little smile, and we have, oh, seconds of fun. It honestly didn't occured to me that I was in fact training him to mistreat his poor mother. Anyway, as I said to Mrs McMuffin, there is no evidence to prove a correlation between the two behaviours. Yes, I really did say that.

By the way, the photo is of Babycake with his new favourite toy, a brown paper bag.