My baby is 6 months today!!! And to celebrate, I thought I’d put my new found Photoshop skills [what little of it] into good use and came up with this…..
Whaddaya think? We were on our way to the post office to post my postcards. :)
First of all, a BIG hearty congratulations to Frank and Aida on their new arrival, Baby Benjamin!! :) So happy that Aida and bub is doing fine. Can’t wait to hear about the birth. :D I’m sure Aida’s got a LONG post to write for us! lol :P
I took Ella for an overall check up at the clinic where our designated ECN [Early Childhood Nurse] is at, which is just about 5 minutes walk from where we live so that is a HUGE bonus for me. It would be sad if we had to move to another place then, coming here or wherever the clinic is would be a bugger. Anyway, got Ella checked out and she is growing well :
Weight : 7.44kg [75%] up by 0.5kgs from her previous weighing on 3/12/2007
Height : 65.5cm [75%]
Head Circ : 41.5cm [25]
There were a couple of things which I had mind and wanted to discuss with the nurse and one of them was the teething and moving on to solids. I was happy to note that Ella isn’t teething just yet bu that said, I’m just wondering why she gets so whingy these days. Sometimes, I can’t even put her down for a while and if I did, I have to sit there and play with her. Not that I mind but sometimes all that carrying….phew! Thank god my left arm isn’t acting up! Having a fractured arm when I was a child proved to be a bad thing for me since I can’t carry heavy stuff for long on my left arms coz if I did, it would ache like hell hence, I don’t like to carry babies for long before this. But now, it seems to have healed coz I can carry Ella for long periods of time and I’m all good. The miracle of having a child of your own!
Discussions about solids made me realise how fast she’s growing up and the thought that she would be more indepandant makes me feed as if I would be needed less but that’s the way it is, isn’t it? I guess that’s why we don’t want our kids to grow up and even when they do, we always seem to treat them as if they are a child. It’s only now I realise and see why things are the way they are and why parents are so protective of their children no matter what age the children are – coz in mum’s and dad’s eyes, they will always be their little baby. *sigh* I’m getting so emo right now….blek!!
Anyway, I’ll be trying out some rice cereal to get things going when she’s 6 months old which isn’t too long from now and then slowly move on from there. This will be good timing because by the time it is time for us to head over to Malaysia, she will already have started solids hence, I can feed her the cereal on the plane. Here’s hoping she don’t make a mess!! lol =P
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