Finally I found the time to blog about this major development! [Aida, you're a superwoman for being able to cope with 2 toddlers under 2, keep your home clutter free, feed everyone at home AND sew!]

Arianna has been sitting up for longer periods of time unaided since 9/4/2008 and all thanks to Nana who has been helping/teaching her to sit up. As you can see, she’s got a pretty smug look on her face – she knows she’s done something new and is darn proud of it too. All this happened while I was in the shower and it seems that she put on an ‘act’ for Mum and Ted too. *lol* Must have been quite a sight and I managed to catch a glimpse as her steam ran out too. Lucky Mummy!!

She’s been quite a twister but at the same time, she knows when she has to lift her legs up and when she can wriggle around. It’s really funny how she know the after bath wipe down. I normally wrap her up in her bath towel and change her in the room. So once we reach the room, I would lay her down, and tell her as I’m doing all the actions – “Clean ears….armpit up -wipe, wipe, wipe, other armpit up – wipe, wipe….wipe face…..now leg up – wipe the bum-bum!!!” and she always lifts up her chops on que! VERY, very cute….and of course, she always rewards me with a smile too. She loves it when I rub the baby cream all over her but with the humidity here, it makes her sweat even more so that’s more for bedtime.

On the solids front, Arianna is still taking the rice cereals although I’ve changed the flavours a couple of time and realised the she likes the oats and prune from Nestle the best. She is also taking rice porridge with either carrots or pumpkin with corn thrown in for flavour. Of course I also add in a piece of chicken meat for that additional flavour. Today, I put in 3 prawns and she loved it! Truly Daddy’s little girl. She seems to favour the savoury more than the sweet so I will have to keep an eye out for savoury cereals as well. I try to feed her twice a day but it’s tough to keep to a strict solids regime when we are always going out. So whenever we are out, it’s always cereal time.

I’ve been reading my little feeding book and they always say bf first before giving bub solids but if I did bf her, she’d be too full for solids so I have been feeding her solids first and then bf her when she goes down for a nap. And it seems to work fine with us. Also, I’ve been thinking of introducing formula milk to her for those times when we are out and bf is not in favour and the measurements that is supposedly for bubs her age is quite a lot and I don’t think she takes in that much bm at all!! Very confusing…..

MIL’s been grumbling about me not giving her meats. Is there a reason why I should rush these things? Is there a time line for introducing your bub to new foods? I know she is concerned but Arianna did start taking solids a ittle later than most bubs and I am in no hurry to introduce more things to her after all she did resent that mashed sweet potato and then went on strike and refused to eat after that. So, no thank you – ain’t going down that road again!

Plus, we don’t really have that hand processor here AND Mum kind of broke her blender so I’m sure another week or 2 without meats is ok. I’ve been thinking of sticking to rice porridge and adding other stuff to it like veggies and meats instead of the usually ang moh foods like stews and mashed stuff. I think that’s the Malaysian in Arianna. O well, we’ll see….

One more thing : Arianna weighed 8.45kgs on 19/3/2008…wonder what she weighs now?