12:04 am
After the pedi appt Friday we are instructed to start introducing real food and decreasing bottle and formula. So we’re letting her practice wtith cheerios and some other specialty products. The latter of which seem to be mostly flour and sugar????!! Sigh. Cheerios are great. We’ve learned to just give her one by [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Cheerios
March 31, 2009Mobile Infant-try
March 31, 20098:02 pm Hey got a surprise when I came home tonight. Got in, put my stuff up, came over to the living room where Aijuan has laid out a big quilt for Angela to play on, and I greeted as usual and she started crawling to me!!!
Tent City
March 30, 20098:35 pm CDT
One of the little things I’ve learned she likes us tobput a little blanket over the jungle thing like a little tent. I think it makes it feel more cozy and is out of the direct overhead light. She can still see everything around her but she can kind of chill in her [...]
Frogger
March 29, 20093/29/09 3:50 pm
Ok, Angela Mei Mei has quckly advanced to Level 1 “Crawling Like A Frog”. Easily identified by the characteristic frog-like movement of the two (hind) legs simultaneous contracting and pushing motion, causing lower torso to momenttarily raise above the surface while pushing upper torso up with forearms, resulting in a jumping hopping forward [...]
9 Months !
March 27, 2009Fri Mar 27 14:40:33 CDT 2009
Today Angela “Mei Mei” is 9 months old! Just think where we were a year ago.
She spent the morning at the pediatrician’s office for her 9 month visit. Today she checked in at 28 1/4″ long and a svelte 20 pounds, 14 ounces. This put her at the 75 percentile [...]
AllStar
March 24, 2009Aijuan has taught Mei Mei to put the ball IN the box instead of just removing them. Usually with considerable gusto and possible tossing of the Tupperware box itself. Give her the box full of little toys and she delights in picking it up and giving it a toss to empty it then chew on [...]
Already missing her
March 23, 2009Went in to peek at Angela sleeping. She was on her side, had one hand on the bumper thing whatever you call it. I gently picked up her little arm and put it down by her with her other. She’s so small right now. I mean she is big, but compared [...]
Proto crawling
March 23, 2009Well we are starting to see her kind of proto crawling. That is, using her body to get where she wants to go. Oh yeah and not outright rolling. She’s been a roller for some time but that has it’s limitations. Angela “Mei Mei” will be 9 months Friday 3/27. She can stand pretty [...]
