Long and Lean

So the weather's heating up here in Perth (finally!). Harriet has started wearing just her singlet and a nappy some days - luckily we bought a whole pile of size 0 singlets at the Baby & Kids Market a few months back.

Mike and James have started to rip down the old pergola and build the new one this weekend. It already looks a lot better having the other one ripped out (which may tell you something about just how horrible the old one was). Only down side is that the study is going to be pretty warm for the next week before the new tin goes up...but who cares! I'll post some photos when it's all done.
Harriet is making Freud a proud man - she is now at her 'oral' stage. Everything and absolutely everything has to be shoved into the mouth at the moment. Here you can see that not even her good old friend Mr Croak is immune. The scary thing is that she's actually giving him a bit of a tongue-y in that shot...more Freud action.
She's also starting to lose the hair on the sides of her head. She still has the impressively thick mohawk hair that reaches right down to the forehead, but the sides are pretty light on. You can kind of see that in this photo...but really it's just an excuse for me to post a cute photo of her sleeping. She has her dummy in this one. She only uses her dummy for the odd day sleep to calm her down - it normally gets spat out after a few minutes of deep sleep. But she never has it for going down at night. Luckily for us she's in a real routine as far as that's concerned - bedtime is about 7.30/8pm and wake up is around 6-7am.


In this photo Papa gets a chance to stare adoringly at the baby whilst she gets a chance to stare adoringly at her wristband. It make a little rattle sound so can keep her entertained for quite a while.

She has started vocalising quite a bit and although a few of those vocalisations are lovely high-pitched squeals, it is still pretty cute to listen to. She loves to chat to herself, the toys hanging from her playgym, the book I'm reading to her or the fridge. She loves the fridge, mainly because we have a lot of magnets and a dress-up Homer on there. All of it is fascinating to a baby apparently.

She had her 3 month check on Friday and is now 65cms long and 6.5kgs. So long and lean, like we thought. her weight is still in the top percentile bracket but she is just growing too long for her to deposit any real fat stores! Plus the nurse said at this age they tend to get so excited by everything going on around them because they're becoming so alert and they can become distracted whilst feeding and need to be kept quiet during feeding to make sure they have a full one.

They also love to give you a whole pile of pamphlets: 'The Three Month Old' (ideas on how to stimulate and play with your baby), 'Immunisation Days' (turns out she will have hers a little early, on 8th Dec), 'A Baby 3-6 Months' (social changes in your baby), 'Baby's First Foods' (not to be started until 6mths) and we also got a new booklet for her health and immunisation details. We were just 2wks early with her birth to get it and we got the old style book which is yellow and poorly laid out and really awkward to carry around. The new one is pretty spiffy and has a purple cover which makes it extra spunky - our nures said we could have it so yay! Weird the things that make you happy (we're such dorks).