It's been a month ..

Oh my goodness how time flies! It's been a month since I last blogged at the rate I am going it's gonna be 12 entries per year! Yikes !! So much has happened over the past 1 month.

In terms of Nat's diet, she is now on solids. Loves the homemade, sun-dried, blender grinded brown rice cereal with veg or fruits. Current combination would include Japanese carrots (its' natural sweetness is so yummy even mummy love it), broccoli ( taste a little too concentrated for me. The broccoli has a strong distinctive taste when pureed without additional water, but Nat doesn't seem to mind), and steamed California white peaches with organic baby apples (this dish creates such a lovely aroma! definitely finger licking good and she always ask for more). Was thinking of trying fish next.. not sure how to go about it...will have to find time to research.

On her physiological development, she is gaining dexterity with her fingers. She has learnt to stick out her tongue ( see pic above), kick off her shoes, grab her feet, place her feet in her mouth, twist and turn in bed... She is still a little wobbly when seated on her own ie can't prolong sitting down and not topple over. Can't crawl yet and no sign of her first tooth at this stage.

We visited Dr. Toh for her pneumoccocal Jab today and she suggests that we place her on the walker to strengthen her calf and thigh muscles, which we haven't after so many months. One of my colleague has placed her kid in the walker since he was 4 months, but we've heard so many scary stories about walkers that even though we own one we weren't sure when's safe to start using it. So today is the inauguration of her walker. We finally opened the box which has been lying in Nat's room since birth and Chris got it fixed! ( Hey girl, your daddy would only do this for you.. it's extremely rare that daddy would be the handy man in the house. He even jokingly asked if 'gong gong' could fix it instead. But Daddy did it! Such commendable efforts!*applause*). As for the jab, she was really brave! One scream and that's all it takes. Perhaps playing with mummy whilst the injection happened reduced the pain significantly as she saw the angelic face of mine and managed to calm her nerves =)

On sleeping pattern, she goes off to bed by 6.30pm and falls asleep before 7pm. Wakes up at 10ish and early morning at 3ish, sometimes 4 for feeds. She is fully awake by 6am. Which I didn't quite mind as it is close to the time I too wake up to prepare for work.

As for sleep styles, apparently Nat is quite a mobile sleeper. We find her in various positions at different times in the night, turning 360 clockwise in her cot! When she sleeps next to me, she'll wake me up with her little kicks and boxes. She'll pull my hair and yank it really hard when I ignore her. I'll end up screaming and she just laughs it off. How sadistic! And she never does this to Chris.. ok may he has much shorter hair.. but Nat this sort of good stuff you can leave it to daddy k.

Got to go for dinner now.. back for part 2 in a bit.