Apols for lack of entries. Life just seems to whizz by with hardly a moment to spare. Hard to believe I'm 40 today and in three days' time Thomas will be five months old. He's changing too - very much a baby still in some ways but he's on his way to becoming a proper little boy.
What's rewarding now is the amount he interacts with us. He smiles as much as he cries, he pulls all manner of different faces and is gurgling and cooing in quite a communicative way. And he seems to be picking up on what we say. Not long ago, if you walked across the room in front of him, he would be oblivious, but now Thomas watches as you pass, turning his head. If he catches your eye, he will giggle and smile.
And he's sent me a birthday card and bought me a present - with a little help from his mum of course! It's still a novelty to me to have a child and be a father and although I'll be sad when his baby stage is over, I'm looking forward to the next stage, him becoming a little boy and being able to talk to us.
Kate has just taken him over to her parents' place where my surprise birthday party is being prepared (which I'm slightly nervous about) - anyway I'm quite sure it won't be me that's the centre of the attention - it'll be my little boy!
