Nanna came and Nathan showed off his waving and clapping.

We're starting to get worried about all this being sick, especially during the night. Perhaps a visit to the doctor is in order?

The weather was nice enough to take Nathan for a stroll round the back garden. There was a marked contrast to the lad's reactions this afternoon and his reactions the last time we did this in the autumn of last year. This time Nathan reacted (he didn't like the water butt and was interested in the shed), last year he didn't know what to think.

Nathan's got himself a temperature. Calpol brings it down, but he's still a bit below par.

Two glorious firsts today. Nathan clapped and waved. We had him clapping, waving, and dancing on request all afternoon. I think he's very happy to be able to communicate in these new ways.

Unfortunately he also seems to have caught something nasty. He's got a temperature, and was a bit out of sorts, alternating between moods of sickness and happiness.

Nathan figured out how to stack the biggest form of Lego, Primo, today. He still has his thumb in the bottom of the block when he stacks it, but managed to slip it out leaving the block stacked.

We did the deed with the suppository, and it seemed to do the trick. Hopefully we'll be leaving this subject for a while.

There are two hospitals in Reading and we visited both of them today.

First we went to the Royal Berkshire hospital to see the ophthalmologist. The news is that the squint (or turn, as they call it) is still there, but that it alternates, meaning that the lad's vision is equal in both eyes. They will continue to monitor the situation. Nathan was also tested for long and short sight. He has neither.

Then (after a nap) we went on to Battle hospital where the physiotherapist had a look at Nathan. Unfortunately the lad's pupils where dilated to the maximum after the ophthalmologist, and Nathan was a bit grumpy, so the session didn't go very well.

This wasn't made any better by Nathan's constipation, probably caused by too much milk and not enough roughage-containing food. We're going to try a suppository, and see if it makes Nathan feel any better.

The lad did some real crawling at playgroup today.

He had a nice sleep at lunchtime but it wasn't really long enough. Swimming was still fun, but Nathan was absolutely exhausted by the end of it.