Mama has been staying with us for a few days and, even though we've all been coughing and spluttering, it's been fun. I've been stressed with job hunting so I haven't been great company but I hardly think that matters when Mama has a gorgeous little baby to play with !! We took her to town for lunch and Jemima sat in a high chair again and Mama couldn't believe how well behaved she was. Jemima chattered and played and ate a serving of spinach, basil and parsnip very well...she's an old hand at this socialising malarkey dontcha know ?!
Jemima's waving has really come on, she now initiates the waving and not only does she open handed Brit-style wave but also the moving Greek wave (fingers open and shut towards palm repeatedly) so she's already bilingual !! Mama just can't believe this, Jemima just seems so advanced in her desire to socialise, it's just adorable...we all wave like mad fools when she starts.
Today Jemima read a book about farms with her grandfather, pictures to come, and she really slaps the book and peers closely at the pictures, mesmerised by two dimensional images that are somehow very different to everything else that surrounds her. We are actually using the same books my parents kept from S. Africa when I was a wee babby and it's very touching to know that once, yes yes maaaany years ago, I too was slapping the pictures and learning about my world.
Jemima is crawling a-pace which also seems reasonable advanced. I received a Bounty email for 8 month babies (which she is not yet) who might decide in the next month or two to become mobile - way too late !! Jemima has now decided that standing is far more interesting than crawling and is repeatedly bringing one foot forward underneath her and flattening in it in what I can only think is a precursor to standing up unaided. She easily climbs the two steps in the sitting room, no pause in between crawling over to them, climbing up and crawling forwards again. I really have no rest now so I must build up my stamina !! Standing up using anything as an aid is now no problem at all, my only (rather large) concern is that our floor is wooden and slippery...
Actually, it really gives one a sense of legacy and deep desire to do right by my daughter, and the hope that I will live up to my own expectations as a mother. Will I set the right examples ? Will I be able to explain the world to her truthfully, without cynicism, in a balanced way ? Well, I'm going to try my best.
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Finally turning a corner...
Jemima has been completely off food for a few days and dropped her milk feeds too which hasn't been great but she started off with a little satsuma appetiser...
...and had a whole portion of her favourite dish, spaghetti carbonara, great ! She's picked up on her milk too so I'm hopeful we'll be back to normal in the next day or two.
Mama and Baba came to visit us today and were greeted by Jemima waving properly ! She's been moving her little arm up and down in response to manic "hello-ing" and "bye-bye-ing" for a few weeks now but, having spotted herself in the mirror yesterday, she's been waving properly with a little open hand recently. The very first time she's used the gesture to anyone else was today with Granny Greek and Granddad ! Unfortunately I didn't get it on film as it's very cute but I'm sure I will.
Well, important news, whilst battling the cold, Jemima's sprung two teeth in two days !! She's now got two little lower teeth and a row of FOUR along the top !!! She's been in discomfort and grinds them horribly at times but I can't wait to see her toothy little grin...aawww
And...Babyzilla - as we now call this tremendously physically able child - is now able to climb up the two steps in the sitting room. Shouldn't someone tell her she's only 7 months and 1 week old ? I've told her and she just ignores me and pulls herself to standing all over the place. My days of laying her on her playmat and popping to the kitchen are well and truly over.
To think, I used to wake up with a huge sense of anticlimax and sometimes dread going into the office and now I wake up with an urgent sense of joy, unable to wait for my baby to wake and show me what amazing things she's going to do and learn today xxxxxxxx
...and had a whole portion of her favourite dish, spaghetti carbonara, great ! She's picked up on her milk too so I'm hopeful we'll be back to normal in the next day or two.
Mama and Baba came to visit us today and were greeted by Jemima waving properly ! She's been moving her little arm up and down in response to manic "hello-ing" and "bye-bye-ing" for a few weeks now but, having spotted herself in the mirror yesterday, she's been waving properly with a little open hand recently. The very first time she's used the gesture to anyone else was today with Granny Greek and Granddad ! Unfortunately I didn't get it on film as it's very cute but I'm sure I will.
Well, important news, whilst battling the cold, Jemima's sprung two teeth in two days !! She's now got two little lower teeth and a row of FOUR along the top !!! She's been in discomfort and grinds them horribly at times but I can't wait to see her toothy little grin...aawww
And...Babyzilla - as we now call this tremendously physically able child - is now able to climb up the two steps in the sitting room. Shouldn't someone tell her she's only 7 months and 1 week old ? I've told her and she just ignores me and pulls herself to standing all over the place. My days of laying her on her playmat and popping to the kitchen are well and truly over.
To think, I used to wake up with a huge sense of anticlimax and sometimes dread going into the office and now I wake up with an urgent sense of joy, unable to wait for my baby to wake and show me what amazing things she's going to do and learn today xxxxxxxx
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