This week you harvested your very own ripe strawberry from the garden.  I did wonder if any would ever go red as you kept ripping them off when they were green.  You were very pleased with it, and devoured it before going on the hunt for more.  You are somehow taller and more grown up this week, filling out your clothes and changing from a doddery toddler to a little boy.  I hear myself in you more and more and it makes me challenge my  own behaviour.  We have been potty training for a few weeks and you are now dry at night but still wearing nappies in the day time.  I have never heard of any child doing it this way round but you like to keep us on our toes! You have learnt to sit up unaided this week, proudly sitting tall and strong, surveying what looks interesting and then making a determined effort to get there. At 6 months, this stage is so obviously different to the ones that preceded it.  From cradled and cuddled all day long to laying on your back, then your front, rolling, reaching and now sitting and learning to crawl.  You’ve also learnt to screech at the top of your voice if you are frustrated.  Usually it is because there is food out of your reach and all of a sudden you will go from making no noise to creating an ear splitting tone.