Nativity and Crawling

On Thursday (18th) Toby managed to eventually get out of reverse and into drive to begin crawling forwards. He is now rather unstoppable and getting into everything. His favourite locations now seem to be the fireplace and the Christmas tree. His crawling isn't particularly quick yet but he is rather sneaky and be up to his elbows in something before you blink. He's managing to annoy Beth constantly now as he goes straight for her toys - especially her dolls house. The house will need a bit of babyproofing - gate on the stairs and lowering his mattress. I think we're going to have to get Beth to close doors behind her to stop him going in the kitchen as I have no idea how we'll secure the cupboards.

The nativity on Friday morning was great, Beth had a speaking part as the angel who told Mary she was going to have a baby (you have to imagine all this in Yorkshire accents - most amusing!). Her angel outfit was definitely the best out of all the angels (goes without saying) and she was pretty well behaved and certainly didn't cry. I did notice that it was all boys who cried and wanted their mums. After they had their Christmas party and Santa came to see them all. So far she's seen three Santa's, all very different (one female, two skinny, one very grumpy) but hasn't noticed anything amiss!