yay!!! Tom has two fans!!! You guys are so nice!! in fact, may i confess that Tom has a suprisingly large female following lol....he is a heart stealer already!!! I can't go to the chemist without being surrounded by woman who want to see his cheeky smiley face!!
Well....He is fantastic!!!! He is absolutely bouncy mad - he tries to bounce ALL THE TIME. Today for example, i tried to change his nappy, but as soon as i held his legs to clean he started trying to bounce, making the changing matt slide back and forth across the floor. If you sit him down, he bounces whilst sitting, if you kneel him down, he bounces back and forth. He wont stand any more - he'll just bounce. Rather humerously i put him on his front over a pillow and he looked like he was a dog humping it as he was trying to bounce!!
Of course, the whole time he is smiling deleriously and laughing and shouting dad dad da, with the odd squeel of delight!! No sign of a mummy tho!!!
My little charmer is turning into a monster however and he is going to be TROUBLE (not just with a capital T, but all with capitals!!). He is reaching out for everything and although he cant crawl yet, he is trying. he will roll and wriggle out your arms to get at anything and everything - which he finds funny! of course!
As for the spina bifida side of things, his legs are great. Probably stronger than a normal child due to all that bouncing! He can stand (when he isnt bouncing) and has very good balance. He even took his first steps this week. i had conviced myself that he wouldnt be able to.
He has terrible bowel and bladder troubles tho and i think he will have to have surgical intervention when he is older, but we are managing ok, and it isnt affecting him right now.
Apart from that, he is a normal baby, loves to talk, blow raspberries and roar alot lol - and he'll have your finger off with his new choppers if you dare give him bonjela!!