Conrad loves rummaging through buckets and boxes, so to keep him entertained for that bit longer it’s a good call to put him on the living room floor with the big toy box or on the bathroom floor with the box of bath toys. He’ll dive into it, pick a toy, bring it out and turn it over in his hands, put it in his mouth and maybe chomp on it for a while, until he drops it to the side and dives into the box for the next thing. It leaves the floor pretty messy with toys to clear up, but it’s worth it to see him enjoy himself (and to get a bit of time for other things oneself).
I move Conrad around between the rooms depending on what I’m doing still (bathroom if I’m having a wash or brushing my teeth, kitchen or hallway if I’m cooking), though he is becoming more mobile on floor level too. He can shuffle his way between toys and I have to watch out so I don’t step back onto him because he’s not where I put him anymore. He moves around because it’s fun. Today he was spinning around and around in a circle on his bottom in the middle of the kitchen floor, steadily and at quite a good speed with a wooden spoon in his mouth, and was giggling away. He’s getting more and more adorable every day…
Every day at some point we do our rounds through the house, him grabbing me firmly by the hand and pulling me along with him. We usually do the same favourite ‘circuit’ a few times every day: starting in living room (by the big windows where the toys usually are), then out in kitchen to pat the bin and the chopping boards that are on one of the shelves eye level to Conrad, then up to the oven to pat the buttons at the front (he can’t switch it on as we always turn it of at the wall and the outside of the oven door only gets warm, never hot), then back out in the hallway to tear the shoes down from the shoe rack and the up to the front door to pat it for a bit and try to reach the keyhole. Then back into the living room again, only to turn around on the other side of the treshold and start over.
Gabriella