caitie demands, caitie shall have :P

I've been remarkably slack in taking photographs of Daniel in the last couple of months. Part of that is that I'm just too busy with exam and other stresses (free of the exam in fifteen days! hurrah!), part of it is some sort of weird grief-avoidance because I associate my camera with our little girl-kitty that was run over in May :(

Select photos, when I have them, are usually posted over on my Flickr, but here are a couple more recent ones for this forlorn blog. Daniel is now ~10.5 months, having narrowly avoided sharing a birthday with any of several of my favourite friends and family members by dint of being nearly a week late.

a) Daniel at ~8 months, having recently learned to stand for 5-10 seconds without support.

b) Daniel at ~9 months, in our local park (behind the tag-art-ed back wall of the Franklins)

c) Daniel, 9 months 1 week, first attempt at self-feeding with spoon.

Current status:

He walks unsupported, unsteadily, for greater distances every day at this point (today, up to 2m); doesn't talk much but has a vocabulary of at least five words when he chooses to use them (hewwo/heyyo, i-uv-you, dadad, mumum, baba (bottle) ) - sometimes used in two-word phrases. Is fortunately not tall enough yet to reach more than the outer 10cm of a table/desk top, but has been known recently to push things to the desk to stand on to gain greater reach (usually ends in catastrophe). Cannot be convinced that cellulose in various forms is not, traditionally, a food group. Loves doorknobs, handles, gates and keys, the cog-magnets on our fridge, and the Shape-O.