Week 44 of Joseph's life saw him doing four days at Bear Park as I had some meetings on the Monday. He must have been going some kind of growth spurt as he has been eating loads of food and waking for an extra bottle during the night (plus another tooth just cut through as well).

We have been having our bathrooms "refreshed" and here is Joseph having his first shower in the new downstairs bathroon. He isn't quite sure what to make of the hand held shower head!

Uncle Gerry gave Joseph an Australian t-shirt for Christmas and Joseph wore it to Bear Park on Thursday. He may well be wearing it more often given the diabolical performance of the NZ cricket team of late!

Crawling, standing and now cruising take up a bit part of Joseph's day. Here he is crawling around the courtyard. I caught him going up the stairs on Friday so will be getting that stair gate once the builder have left. He will walk along the sofas and will also walk if you hold his hands and help him along. It is fascinating watching his development especially since he only started crawling a few weeks ago.

I am trying to instill a good washing ethic into Joseph (so the Vincent obsession with washing continues!) and he does find pegs quite interesting and the clothes horse a handy walking/standing frame.