A week of growth and development..

My gosh, the past week has involved a huge amount of growth and development for my little miss..

6th August - Teeth 3 and 4 have popped out.. Love this cheesey photo of her, which shows them off beautifully.. 

8th August - She's clapping when we say "Mei Mei, Clap!"

9th August - She flipped from back to belly for the very first time.. It was around 9pm, and she often requires a resettle after her first sleep of the night.. When I went into the room, I found her like this..

12th August - She pulled herself up from sitting to standing position and was so proud of herself..

13th August - We had to lower the cot this morning since this little cheeky Miss has been rolling around non-stop since the first time and trying to pull herself up..

Teeth Update

I thought I'd post an update on Lucas' teething situation.. Since my 1st post about it here, 4 more teeth have popped up for Lucas - another couple of molars, as well as those bottom incisors..

We really need to be vigilant about cleaning them too now as I've noticed black spots on his top two teeth.. Eeek.. not good!! If only he was more willing..

Sleeping Luskis..

Or not...

I might have to take back yesterday's teething comment as Lucas has been a pain to put to bed these past couple of days.. I just spent the last 2 hours with him and he's finally asleep now..

As soon as I put him in his cot and try to wrap him, he starts flipping over onto his stomach to crawl away.. Even after I've wrapped him, he still flips over and back continuously to loosen and get his arms out, then it's back to square one again.. The first three, maybe four times, were amusing, but after that, it just got annoying!!

So I took him out of his cot for about an hour to play for a while longer.. eventually I had to feed him to sleep and yeah, I had to put some teething gel on his gums.. Not sure if it helped or not though..

And here's a photo of him this arvo.. doesn't exactly look that comfy.. hehe..

Oh, I also had a bit of a scare today too.. I gave him a piece of watermelon when I went to prepare my lunch and heard him coughing/spluttering.. He swallowed a big chunk of watermelon and some of it must have gotten stuck in his throat and he couldn't swallow it or chuck it back up.. Luckily, he did end up swallowing it and was ok..

On a brighter note, I got my Kris Kringle present in the mail today! Can't wait to find out what it is, but I'll have to wait until the 16th when everyone else will be revealing what they received... yay!

Teeth!

I discovered another tooth this morning which looks like it just cut through Lucas' gums in the last day or two.. It's his top right molar (highlighted yellow in the pic below) and the first tooth since he was about 7 months old.. The ones highlighted pink are his current ones - the bottom two teeth came through at 4.5 months, then the top 4 came soon after.

Linky for baby teeth info

I think I have been one of the lucky parents whos baby hasn't really been affected by teething pains (touch wood).. I wouldn't have noticed this tooth for a while if Lucas didn't want to bite my finger just before I put him to bed for his nap this morning.. 

Then this arvo I had to go to the shops to post something in the mail, and boy was it busy!! Lucas also refused to sit in his pram, so I popped him in my Ergo, but he still wasn't too happy.. So while in Target, I swapped a bar of soap he was refusing to let go for this batmobile..