the boy and the tramp

when the
store advertised
a clearance of
50% off sale

on their
small sized
trampolines
mummy actually
bit the bullet
and finally
got one
for me
to
bounce
upon

and so this sunday evening
our family m.o.
was to set it up -
it's petite enough
to fit at the end
of our little garden
yet ample for some
enthusiastic
energetic and
effervescent
burning off
of little boy
energy

woo hoooooooooooooo!

got ourselves a crying, talking, sleeping (not), walking, living doll

to give you an idea of what life in a day of an almost one year old is like
this is pretty much it -
from the walking and crawling around
to the cooing, babbling (sometimes shrieking) vocalisation/noise
accompanied by excited flapping of arms
followed by the delightful abandon of mess-making
that's what Callum's life is all about presently
repeat ad nauseum until his head hits the pillow
and the whirlwind doesn't even cease then
because he still wakes up every 3-4 hourly through the night for feeds
think of poor poor mummy who is still surviving
a record of almost 365 days with less than 4 hour stretches of sleep...
the things we do for love!

Callum walking and babbling from Eileen Chan on Vimeo.

and we're off once again

Callum has been crawling about for almost 6 months now
and he started taking his first few unsteady zombie-like steps about 2 months ago
since last week his footfalls have progressively increased
from the initial 2 or 3 stumbles to about 8 or 9 distinct lengths
and so we reckon crawling will soon be just a distant memory...
because there's certainly no slowing Callum down now

Callum's initial steps from Eileen Chan on Vimeo.