Rocking Namibia: "Sonny, thank you for that smile upon your face."

Sonny has started walking ... hooray!! Only part time at the moment but finally the little devil will be up off the African dirt and one step away from chasing that big brother of his. He has also developed some of his own special African lingo, talking in clicks. In fact his only word is a click, for food or more specifically sultanas. Otherwise his dialogue is lovely and lyrical, except for 5am when he is calling for me and then Steve seems to think he has the deepest voice in the baby world.

He is one happy little dude but can be quite stubborn and prone to losing his temper. Probably like most one year olds (& his mummy!) He is really making us laugh now & gives great kisses. He loves playing with Ace, they probably have the best time together in the bath, splashing translates across the ages! Otherwise in the world of play, Ace & Sonny are happiest when they remove all the cushions from the couch or playing with water bottles or in the cupboard. Ace continues to be super rough with him, a lot of head locks and blows to the body involved.... but Sonny keeps coming back for more and then throws in the occasional slap down. No doubt will become the story of my life.

His hair is so blonde, most people ask me if his father is blonde, which he was as a baby. Sometimes it has that little ginger hue that Ace sported at this age but is really just super blonde.

Daddy seems to get a lot more love this time round, perhaps cos Sonny has always had to share me unlike Ace. I suspect he will be a daddy's boy, especially since he loves going sideways so much... and damn take the boy off road and he loves it!

Eight teeth, four from our 2 months in Africa, still breastfed, wants to feed himself, sleeping through till the ungodly hour of 5am or 6am when I am lucky, is going through clingy, separation anxiety thing but not so bad that he won't be happy elsewhere, like Noni's hip for what felt like yonks to me, waves like the queen, knows how to skype, loves a good point and recently embraced clapping, not to mention cute as a button and adored by me.

That about catches you all up.

xx

Blog title courtesy of lyrics to "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb, covered by all and sundry including Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder & Ella Fitzgerald.