Over the past few months we have created a monster. Albert has gone from a baby who is given a bottle, to a slobbering monster who must feed himself.

Recently I’ve noticed that as soon as he sees the bottle, he’ll roll over onto his back, give you a look of “Come on! out with the goods! Gimme the bottle! Gimme it now!” And once he has the bottle, the look turns to “*slurp* what took you so long *gulp* I mean, I’m a starving boy, you never feed me *slobber*”

This morning, Bert finished his bottle. The empty was taken away. I made myself raisin toast for brekkie, plonked it on a plate and due to not spending any time with him the night before, went to sit on the couch to have a chat.

He rolled over and looked at me expectantly. I laughed. Tony came over to see what was going on. I went to give him some toast, before Tony pointed out it had raisins in it. I pulled the ‘bits’ out and sat the boy up. Then I gave him the toast and he ate it.

We have defintely created a Pavlovs Dog. Now when he wants food, I can see all he’s going to have to do is roll onto his back and look at us!

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