Hi All - Well we're still on a dial-up connection so I haven't had a chance to do a proper post yet. Also the cord for the camera is still hiding so we can't upload photos until we find it. Boo. But in some shorthand news, Harriet has all eight of her incisors, refuses to sit anymore and must be standing at all times. Her favourite game is to walk everywhere with support from Mama or Papa and standing on her own has graduated from being almost nonexistent to solid for around a few seconds. She loves to walk from the lounge room into the bath to see if there is any water in the bath. When she gets there and there isn't anything in the bath she stands looking down wistfully into the tub for a few seconds and then sighs and turns around to go back into the lounge room and play blocks.
When we go to a cafe lately she loves to eat chunks of our bread, mushrooms with tomato relish and generally make a huge mess. She has her own little booster seat so she can sit up and use the table, it's very cute. She is also justgenerally more like al ittle person and responds to certain words showing us that she understands them (like 'food' and 'indian' [we play a game called indian] and 'splash splash' and 'water'). On Monday mornings she has been going to swimming lessons in the city and in the same class there are babies that are around 13mths old. She is bigger than all of them! *gulp* Big baby alert! Plus she goes OFF in the water, she loves it so much. She swims underwater with gusto and whacks her arms in the water splashing everyone in the near vicinity. There's a little game where the babies swim underwater and have to aim for a toy that the instructor is holding. Harriet did it on her first go and the two girls who were the instructors were so amazed it was pretty funny to see.
Anyway I don't have much more to say since there aren't any photos to support the boring text and being on dial-up is excrutiating. So will see you all soon when we move into our house and organise broadband. Yay!
2 comments:
Now why doesn't any of that surprise me. Go Harriet the swimming champ! Sounds like the swim class's in Sydney are way more advanced than at Mercy, we're just doing the same old stuff as last term. As for the walking, maybe crawling is just be way to primitive for Harry, as ezmae said why bother on the floor anymore when she can get into the upper world action.
Hey Ezmae and Claire
Oh yeah, the walking is just where it's AT for babies apparently, Harriet will tell you all about it. At great volume. For hours on end. :o) I agree about the whole 'I've-been-on-the-floor-get-me-off' attitude, I think there's definitely something in that!
The swimming classes are pretty good, but just today we went to a local pool rather than the city one we've got her in at the moment and that one is awesome. Pretty crappt facilities but the classes are great. She is so into going underwater that we have to do it in the bath now as well.
Cheers, Cass
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