Mama is starting to wean herself off the 'feeding me a bottle of milk syndrome'.
To her amazement (um, excuuuu-uuu-se me - WHY the amazement? I'm a perfectly capable person mama!) I can drink out of a cup like 'ain't no thiiiing' ...
Get a load of that!
No practice required - I did it straight away!
Am I amazing, or am I amazing???
And - now get a load of this folks - I fed myself! I picked up a bit of tender red meat Mama had cut into small tiny pieces, and I put it in my mouth ...
... and chewed... !!!
Why does Mama keep shouting (very loudly) : EUREKA?????
I can even eat the cup if you're all THAT impressed!!
Mama has taken the 'leaving me to get on with stuff by myself' advice very seriously
She let me wander around the garden to my hearts content - I would have thought she would have kept her eagle-eye on me every second, but everytime I glanced her way, she was busy gardening ... so ...
I found a nice deep pool of stinking, stangnant, dirty, bacteria-infested garden water that had been left to rot inside the plastic pool cover behind the house (Mama said it was Papa's fault, but she always says that) ... boy was it fun getting myself drenched in this foul water!!! I LOVED IT !!!
Nathan the photographer was straight in there, filming and taking photos of the fun I was having (Mama still hasn't quite figured out how to post videos on blogger ... but she's getting there!!)
And eventually I wandered back into the house : A SOPPING, SOGGY, SOAKED STINKING MESS
Can't wait to start that filthy fun all over again!!
In the meantime, a further step in my newly-acquired autonomy involves slyly climbing up dangerous staircases as soon as Mama and Papa have their back turned ...
I can also now frown furiously when things aren't going my way (this is me with my Mamie - Papa's Mama, yesterday) and I wanted to make the doll do stuff all by myself, hence the frown. Mama loves this photo, cos she says its SOOO MEEE and my budding ability to curse ...
And just as a conclusion to this post about autonomy : I am now also capable of ripping my trousers all my myself too. Ain't that something ???!!!!
