Things Harriet Can Do
* Blow raspberries - along with very complicated drool routines, this skill is unsurpassed amongst her peers. She loves to blow a raspberry, watch for your reaction, then blow another forceful one (usually covering your face in drool too) when you're watching her.
*Sit Up - she has been doing this since the 27th of December (so 5mths, 10d old). She started off being able to sit up when supported around the bum and then slowly sliding down to lie on her side with a big grin on her face. Within about two weeks that progressed to her sitting up without any support for extended periods but with the occasional period of 'dropsy'. Since about the end of Jan 06 she has been a fully self-supporting, sitting up machine. The problem with this is that it's ALL she wants to do and now trying to settle her to sleep is difficult because all she wants to do is strain to sit up!
* Grab Stuff - for a little baby she's been quite dextrous for a while. But since Christmas she has become a grabbing monster, leaving little untouched in her wake. Glasses cannot stay on faces, spoons cannot stay in hands, tails cannot stay on cats. All manner of items must enter the drool-infested mouthing cavern that is Harriet. At Christmas she couldn't really work out how to grab the Roll-a-Rounds (little balls) that we bought her, but we just noticed a couple of weeks ago that she now grabs them easily and passes them from hand to hand (and then sends them smashing onto the floor!).
* Make Choices - this probably sound skind of naff, but it's actually very cool. Harriet can make decisions about what she likes or doesn't like, what she wants to do and (very definitely) what she doesn't want to do. Usually we know about the not-want-to-do things, because she'll start screaming when she does them (screaming when we put her in the highchair when in fact she wants to be on us; playing with blocks when she'd rather play with Gromit; playing with the activity board instead of reading a book), but the cool bit is when she reaches out to play with the thing that she isn't holding on to.
* Almost Crawl – and when I mean almost, I mean not quite much at all. She loves to get on to her belly by forward face-planting from a sitting position, rolling over to her side and then on to her front. From there she lifts her bum in the air, does a supermodel wriggle, and…and…umm…well from there she sticks her arms out behind her like she’s about to take off into the air and starts getting upset that she’s not going anywhere! Hahahahaha!!! It’s pretty funny to watch, poor bewildered baby.
* Throw Things – more specifically, from her highchair. On to the ground. With force. We usually hear the *thud* of the items as they make contact with the kitchen floor, but lately she doesn’t yell out when she doesn’t have anything left on her tray. Instead, she just starts banging her open palms against the tray like a prisoner demanding their next meal. A lot of our mornings are now taken up with bending over to pick up toys from the floor, which we don't expect to end anytime soon.
* Interact with Anyone and Everyone – it’s so much fun now. When we turn around to look at her in the car she makes a raspberry or some sort of noise and when we respond she gets a massive grin/giggle. She knows that when I say “1…2…la,la,la,I’m not too interested in playing anymore…ooohh..THREE!” she knows as soon as I pause too long after 2 that I’m playing and starts to get the chuckles on in anticipation of what I’m going to do. She loves playing active games like being thrown in the air, or spun around in circles really fast, or doing what I call ‘muck arounds’, where we just roll around on the bed and she gets thrown in the air/rolled around on the quilt/belly berries etc.
Random Things About Harriet
* She is wearing size 0 and some size 1 clothing. Yes, she is a monster.
* About 10 days ago she was over 9kgs.
* We have no idea how long she is anymore. We just say "very".
* Yes, her eyes are gorgeous.
* Her chuckles can melt hearts the world over (or at the very least the household over).
* She has only really cried-cried (ie: been really upset) a handful of times. Not even that, maybe two or three. The rest of the time she just grizzles.
* When on the change table, she gets so excited, she thrashes her legs and arms around so that they bang against the hard plastic and I worry that she's hurting herself! She doesn't seem to mind.
* In the past couple of days she has started the separation anxiety stage of affairs - if I'm not within eyesight, anxious cries will ensue.
* It can take anywhere from ten minutes to an hour to put her to sleep of an evening, but day sleeps are fine.
* The other day she was playing with her food (ie: squeezing my nipple for her own enjoyment) when a spurt came out and splashed all over her face! Papa Jimbo killed himself laughing.
3 comments:
My god, she is a monster! Nell is still in some of her 00 clothes!
And poor cats. Just wait until she can crawl after those delicious little tails that they do insist on wagging so invitingly.
Oh, and Harriet insisting on sitting up instead of sleeping? Nell's learnt to pull herself up to a standing position. Problem is, she can't get down to a sitting position from there quite yet. (Strange, but true!) Cue much angry yelling until we come and rescue her.
9 kg! Monster is right! Doesn't Nightwish, Rammstein, dEus or Caligula make her cry?
No, you see the problem is, Rob, that your cd made her immune to loud noise. So now her fave going to-sleep music is (seriously) Public Enemy. Up very loud. And since her Papa loves dEUS so very much, I think it's in her genes. There is no choice. And hello again! We missed you on here!
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