A lily update

Yes its that time again. the time for you all to be bored with details of my beautiful daughter and all the fabulous things she can do!

here goes

Lily Grace Humble

Age: 9 months 3 weeks old

Eating:

lily is doing fabulously with her eating. all my hard work making and pureeing has paid off and she will eat almost anything ( bar sweet potato and chocolate) her favs are butternut rissoto , fish and mash with tomatoes and cheese and a variety of veg, all fruit, sandwiches with dairylea, and of course her all time fav ,avo. she has also been introduced to scrambled egg now which she loves and makes for an easy lunch of supper. yogurt always goes down well.

She will hold and eat things with not much mess. her actual meals are lumpy and textured now and she loves it. I mash most things.

Sleeping:

still does her 11 - 12 hours. she is on an 11 hour thing at the moment and we are having a few bedtime dramas but she is so good on the whole but goes through these sleeping phases and then the next week she fights the sleep again. I learnt a long time ago to go with the flow and let her have what she needs. I could however do without the 5 30 wake up call. lily , if you are reading! her naps are still only 45 min to an hour. she has 2 a day. sometimes, once a week she will have an hour and a half in the afternoon.

mobility:

her crawling has taken off , literally, she moters around the flat so fast that she "trips" over her arms sometimes. she is really exploring things and is quite obsessed with the kitchen and all its cupboards. we have now babyproofed some of the house like the cleaning cupboards and her drawers as they are on runners and if she got her fingers caught in them it would be nasty. she is standing now as well, supported of course. she can pull up on anything that stands still for long enough and has started to wobble her legs a bit and try to step forward or back :)

so all in all she is very mobile shall we say.

cute stuff she can do:

clap hands , listen to the command "clap your hands "and do it , wave at everyone but especially herself in the mirror, giggle insanely at the wierdest things(yesterday me chasing a fly to kill it- bad karma yes yes I know but they are annoying) , say mama , dada , baba and a variety of other sounds, chat to things like books and birds, crawl really fast after birds. at this juncture you may have sensed a bird theme. I don't know if its just Lily but this child seems obsessed with birds. Looking at the amount of kids throwing large chunks of bread at innocent ducks at the park I am assuming children like birds. she can squeeze her bath toys now and is getting really good with grasping things. she passes things to us and then holds out her hand to get them back.

likes:

the swings, being sung to,exploring , birds , tickles ( she lies really still and closes her eyes while you tickle her ) , eating all her favorite foods, going for walks in her pram

dislikes:

sweet potato , going to bed , napping for longer than an hour , getting into her pjs after her bath , getting out of the bath

So thats it, lily in a nutshell

Here in the humble valk household we have recently got a webcam and mic and are now chatting away to mum and dad and Steven and Veronica. It has been really fun as they have been able to see lily and all her cuteness.

other news is Congratulations to our friends Gavin and Catherine on the birth of their little boy , Max Davis, I have yet to see him but he looks amazing on his photos. Gav came to have a beer with us last night and after we left Kristian and i spent ages discussing and reliving Lily's birth and early days. Something that will be happening for many ,many years to come I am sure