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Little Explorer

Age: 6 months

Jack had just learned to crawl, and was exploring the house from his new viewpoint. He was going to explore the mysterious depth of the cupboard, when he got to the kitchen the door was slightly ajar he pushed it open. Inside there were countless silver treasures just waiting to be played with. He reached out his chubby hand to grab one of the treasures when the she-giant Anna walked in and spotted him. He was yanked away from his mission by her and lifted up on to her hip, he whined in protest showing his first tooth on his bottom gum. He noticed then that he was missing his dummy and looked down to see it on the floor, he started to cry screaming for it. Anna bent down to retrieve it and washed it under the tap to get rid of any germs then put it in Jacks mouth. Jack chewed on it happily as he was placed in his dinosaur highchair. Anna placed a bowl of food down on the table and spoon-fed him the banana-flavoured mush.

Jack was in his little baby chair in front of the TV watching 'in the night garden' with iggle piggle and upsy daisy in his sleep suit, when Jonathan walked in the front door. He dumped his stuff in the hallway and walked over pecking Jack on his almost hairless head before sitting down next to Anna to cuddle on the sofa.

The next day Jack was in his pushchair with Anna pushing it along the park pavement heading towards the playground, while Jonathan walked beside them. They entered the playground, Anna carried him to the baby swings and put him in, he squealed with happiness when it swung around underneath him. He had been on the slide, the swings and the roundabout and now he was back in his pushchair being poked by some woman that Anna knew, and he didn't like it so he spat his dummy in her face. She seemed surprised but didn't seem angry at all, instead she picked it up and gave it to Anna.

When they got home he decided to continue his exploration of the house. First he decided to dare the dark of behind the TV, but Anna foiled that plan yet again. So he decided on under the table, he weaved under the legs and out of sight. Anna came in the room with a new dummy to find that he wasn't there; she was about to panic when she heard giggling from under the table. She put the dummy down on the island, "where could Jack have gone?" she said. More giggling from under the table, "where are you?" she continued wrapping her fingers around the bottom of the tablecloth. "BOO!" she shouted as she whipped up the cloth revealing Jack who squealed in terror, which turned into laughter. She plucked him from his spot under the table and gave him his dummy.

Jonathan put Jack in a bubble bath with some rubber ducks. Once Jack was dried, had his tooth cleaned and dressed in his sleep-suit he was put to bed still with his dummy in his mouth.

Over in the North Pole they again were watching through a mirror. Tooth and her fairies were chattering over his first tooth excitedly. North was talking with Bunny and Sandy about what to give him at Easter and Christmas. Jack slept on without a clue of what was going on elsewhere.