Slow Down Lewis :)

i am absolutely AMAZED at the huge difference these boots have made in such a short space of time, in the space of just a week, Lewis has been 'cruising' around the playpen and pulling himself up on it, giving him the confidence to pull himself up on anything and everything, his favourite is to pull himself up on the radiator in the living room and stand looking out the window, watching the kids outside playing, he is itching so bad to get out there with them :)
when he has the boots on they are helping his balance so much, you can see the difference when he has them off and can actually see how weak and soft his feet are, he's practicing at trying to let go of the play pen when he's standing up holding onto it, and i caught him today working out if he should take the 2 steps towards the tv even though he had nothing to hold onto, i knew he'd fall straight into the tv unit so had to discourage him trying that, he's just not quite THAT balanced yet, but 1 thing is for sure, he won't be long till i turn round and he's toddling behind me not holding onto anything.
so yeh what a week, i just get so excited for him, people may think it's mad as like 1 friend pointed out that 'normal' parents would be syaing oh so whats the big deal, my baby could do that at way younger than Lewis, but so what, Lewis is unique, he is STILL kicking CDH butt at 17 months old, such a long everyday battle but 1 he is determined to beat :)
oh the newest thing is now he can sit up from lying down if he has something to pull himself up on, like the cot bars, yay his tummy muscles are getting stronger :) funny when i put him to bed lying down, next thing i peek in he's sitting up, or even standing up! in his cot lol and i THINK he's actually trying to crawl, he's doing what he should have been doing like a year ago, he will now go onto his tummy and push up his hands and he wriggles his legs, which i think is down to his tummy muscles getting stronger and being able to cope with his weight on it a little more, he'll only do this for a couple of minutes but hey he has always absolutely hated being on his tummy, so yet another HUGE thing for him.

As for the eating...he likes to 'feed' me, he was giving me imaginary food the other day lol so when i gave him so real food, yep he was feeding me...and you could see he had his thinking cap on, thinking about every movement he made from pickin off a bit of the cheese to putting it in my mouth, so he deffo knows what to do with it, so we played a game, bit for mummy, bit for Lewis, excpet he NEVER goes past just 'pretending' he's eating it, he'll quickly touch his lips with it, then pulls it away and you can see him 'chewing' but still it's something and it shows he know exactly what to do, we don;t push him to eat anymore, we go with the thinking that maybe once he's a wee bit older and can understand a wee bit about food etc, plus the more you try to push him the more he 'runs' away from it, so i guess it's true what they say, he'll do it when HE wants and learns how to not when we want him to, the main thing is he is happy and loved and doesn't want for anything and that's the main thing for us :)
I will post some pics tomorrow of Lewis being a show off :)