We went to Wellington Country Park. Nathan managed to sleep through the first hour and a half, but woke up to see the animals. He was very interested, but you're not allowed to touch them it wasn't as good as Odds Park Farm.

Some new words are slowly creeping into the lad's babble, you have to listen out, but we heard "foot" today, spoken quite clearly.

Nathan didn't think much of swimming today. Possibly he was a bit tired.

On the stair-climbing front, we're up to eight steps with minimal assistance.

We went to the University Medical Centre today to see the health visitor. Nathan weighed in at 8.22kg (18lb 2oz), which is good. He's back on the 0.4 percentile line.

We also asked some questions, about Nathan's coughing and being sick (normal) and his detachment from food (also normal).

We'll also now get the lad's Oilatum (non-soapy bath stuff) on prescription, which is handy.

Nathan's getting better at kissing, he puckers up now. It's still very wet (especially as the lad has a cold) but it's lovely all the same.

We went to Odd's Farm Park today. To say that Nathan loved it would be an understatement, he squealed with excitement most of the time. We bottle fed some lambs (they put the lad to shame in terms of speed, capacity and volume), stroked a rabbit (Stroking is a concept alien to the lad, the poor animal almost had its head pulled off by its ears), and watched a cow being milked. We also fed some goats, and stroked many many animals. Nathan slept for two hours after that, and he'd hardly crawled at all by that time.

Nathan's taken to pointing at things over the last few days. We can't work out at what, but it's a start.

Another good crawl around at Tuesday playgroup. Nathan used a few of his lives as he crawled, putting his fingers right next to kiddie-cars as they hurtled past him. He wasn't squished once.