Week 42 of Joseph’s life coincided with the first week of 2007. We had our second week at home as a “family unit” – although I did go back to work for two days on Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th January! Dan and Joseph spent quite a bit of time up in Cornwall Park checking out the sheep, cows and chickens. However, they had to do maintenance on the mountain buggy before they could head out to the park.


Joseph has become even more incredibly speedy on the crawling front. Once he gets going there is definitely no stopping he. He has learnt how to get out the door onto the veranda and once he’s outside, he tears around the courtyard and then onto the grass. He likes doing a bit of weeding and generally checking out his “patch”.

Another milestone that Joseph has achieved is pulling himself up to standing. He is doing this with increasing regularity and also with increasing confidence. He will pull himself up on the couch, the mountain buggy, his cot, the dining room chairs and as of this morning, my leg (using my trousers as leverage).


The three of us went to Devonport on Friday for our first family trip for 2007. We drove into the city parked at Dan’s work and then caught the ferry across.

We then walked to Cheltenham Beach and Dan took Joseph out to the water’s edge. Dan said that while the scenery fascinated Joseph, he wasn’t too keen on letting go of Dan to have a paddle in the water! We think he’ll be ready to do more exploring this time next year! We walked back to Devonport and had an ice cream before we got on the ferry. Dan and I each had a double cone and Joseph enjoyed all four flavours – moccasin, cookies and cream, caramel fudge and “gold rush”.


He also enjoyed getting stuck into the cone.