Nathan was a bit toothachey today, not on his best form.

He did manage to pull out all the stops for Nanna's first view of the lad crawling. Nathan zipped around the room like a good 'un

A nice quiet day. Lots of crawling, five nappies and a tired old Nathan by bedtime.

The lad's got a strange sense of humour. His best joke is calling things that obviously aren't ducks "quack quack". Today it was shoes.

Today's crawling record was seven feet. We cheered and Nathan beamed. He's more prone to sitting and staring when we go to toddler's group though.

There was a moment when Nathan crawled through from the living room to the kitchen for the first time. He hovered over the threshold, and spent a few minutes leaning and looking, first at one room, then the other, then the first again. Just savouring the moment.

The health visitor said Nathan's lack of eating was almost certainly down to teething. We're going to visit her on Friday week. I dread the moment of truth on the scales.

Jo Jingles was in the country this week. Instruments were a sounding board and hammer, and a triangle. Nathan just about got to grips with the triangle. The prop was five parent blowing bubbles around the room. The kids loved it.

We went to the physiotherapist who was very pleased with Nathan's progress. We're now to work on getting the lad to stand by getting him to pull himself up on a table (which he already does) and placing first one foot, then the other on the floor.

Something's clicked. Nathan no longer crawls somewhere only to return back to his starting position. He's realised that he can go wherever he wants.

Unfortunately the lad's still on hunger strike. It's been two weeks and it's time to contact the health visitor.

Nathan continues to improve his crawling abilities. He managed three feet today, and just can't stop crawling! As long as someone's there to keep moving his various "toys on string" to the correct distance away then he'll keep on crawling after them. Backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards.

Playgroup was unexceptional. The lad hadn't caught up on his sleep.

After a nice long lunchtime nap we went swimming, and Nathan really got into it. The water was nice and warm so we spent 45 minutes in the pool. Nathan steered dad around and every now and then paddled furiously when something interesting came within site.