Trying Solids and Finding Your Feet

Most Sunday evenings we go around to Nana and Poppa's for Sunday dinner. This week you were happy playing on the floor for most of the meal. Then you decided you wanted to be up at the table with everyone else. The day before I had mashed up some kumara and tried giving you solids to see whether you were ready for them or not. You clamped your mouth tight with a gap only big enough to squeeze your tongue out poking it out like no way I don't want that so I figured oh well you aren't ready that's ok. But on Sunday night as you joined the table you saw the rest of us eating away. So you decided this food stuff can't be too bad. Sitting on my knee you lunged at my plate and pulled it in to help yourself. Opening up some roasted kumara we had another go and you took to it well, watching what everyone else was doing. Monday I thought we would have another go at trying solids since you seemed to enjoy it Sunday night. Again we had kumara and I sat you on my knee at the dinning table. You were taking it but you are becoming 'Miss Independent' and took more when I filled the spoon up and gave it to you. Then you opened your mouth and in went the spoon much better than when I tried to help you out. Since Sunday we have tried to have some sort of mashed kumara each day getting you used to the different texture and taste. You are a great bubble blower and today while we were having our solids you thought it would also be a great time to show me how well you can blow bubbles of kumara you can imagine the golden yellow/orange spray.
You are a happy little girl who loves her Daddy, full of smiles. You have also found your feet this week and when you aren't rolling from back to tummy and back again you are lying on your back with your feet in the air. This week was your fourth swimming lesson and from the beginning you have taken to the water well but this week you loved it! You couldn't stop splashing, your legs were constantly kicking, and your arms couldn't stop flapping at one point you looked like you were doing butterfly. You love to blow bubbles and were blowing your own bubbles so I blew some back under the water as you tried to catch them.

Five Months Old Already

You are continuing to grow up and develop into your own little person. You are now five months old and we are getting out and about lots more. Each Monday we go to swimming and on Monday November 3, you put your head under. All of our showers and baths have paid off and you took to putting your head under like a duck to water. We have also started going to wriggle and rhyme at the Chartwell Library which you are enjoying. For half an hour we sing songs and move about with balls, scarves and bubbles. Each Tuesday we go to SPACE and Tuesday, November 4, you couldn't help but show your rolling skills to everyone. With all of the babies lying on the ground you rolled right into Skyla and I would roll you onto your back then you would roll left over to Frankie and then you would look at Richie and do your superman flying. You have started balancing on your tummy lifting your legs and arms off the ground to look like you are flying each time you are on your tummy. Then at story time, the story was taking too long to get started so you rolled onto your tummy and when I rolled you back you rolled over almost on top of Blake who was lying next to you. We have recently been to Taupo for the long weekend Daddy and Grandma had to go back to work on the Monday afternoon but Poppa, you and I stayed for the rest of the week. Poppa loved spending time with you watching you fly (superman style), and teaching you to blow bubbles. You are now a bubble blowing machine and when we visited the Lava Glass Art you were blowing them almost as if to say you didn't approve of the price tag of the expensive art. You slept in your portacot and slept well at night but weren't so keen to go to sleep in it during the day. The door between the bedroom and the lounge didn't quite close and you would wriggle your way up to the top of the cot and twist your body round so that you could eyeball us through the gap as if to say "I know you are just there, why can't I come and play?"