And they're off...

He's crawling good and proper. His knees are covered with small bruises from whamming along our wooden floors, but he doesn't seem to care. What started as commando crawling (on his belly) became a tentative effort at all-fours crawling (with great Bambi-on-ice impressions along the way, the floors are pretty slippy), and then somehow his legs got stronger and he understood how it worked better. And now he crawls. Fast. As a result he has suddenly learnt several new things:

• Rooms interconnect.
• If someone leaves the room and you are all alone you can chase after them rather than cry for them to come back.
• There are amazing new things to discover because the grownups have not yet fully childproofed the house:
• House plants in pots of earth which is very yummy to eat.
• House plants with leaves that are nice to eat.
• Bowls of lavender seeds that can be eaten and spread around the whole living room, creating a lovely smell, as well as the appearance of:
• The vacuum cleaner, which has lots of buttons, cables and fluff to explore (and eat).
• Bins - and Mamma's 'cross' voice, hitherto not heard so much. Also the word NO.
• The recycling basket with a LOT of paper to be ripped, strewn across the floor and eaten, preferably before Mamma catches you at it.
• Stairs - and the hasty appearance of stairgates, disappointingly.
• The (muddy) wheels of the pram - and the contents of the changing bag, handily near floor level in the pram under-basket.
• Toilets, toilet brushes... and then bathroom door mysteriously started being kept shut. Sad really, that room had potential...
• Outside in the garden even more things have become accessible:
• Earth. Yummy.
• Watering can for drinking out of/showering with.
• Brambles.
• Aphids. And that word NO again.
• Small plants in neat rows. Well, they were neat.

With all these new things to explore the toys are mostly abandoned on the floor, except for two books of colours (i.e. a green page with photos of green things, etc) which are read continuously until they mysteriously disappear.... but they must be round here somewhere, it's just a case of pulling out all the books on the lower bookshelf till they are found again.