Yes the time is forever rushing forward and now my little girl has passed half of her first year of life. She is a chunky bubbly happy baby! No teeth have made their appearance though we have had plenty of runny nose and moody days to boot. She is sitting up strong and can go onto her belly, roll over and is trying the crawling thing but mostly ends up shuffling backwards which frustrates her so much as she puts herself out of reach of the toy she wants.
She is still a mummy girl and lights my day when I go in to pick her up for a nap or when we are shopping and she begging to be taken out of the trolley. She is tolerance of her many brothers and sisters who constantly vi for her attention but sometimes lets them know to just leave her alone. Following advice from my sister with twins I began settling her around 5 months to sleep on her own and it has worked out a treat. She is waking at 7am and feeding and is down around 9am then up again at 11am and down at 1pm and then up until bedtime at 7pm. She has a 'dream feed' yes that is real and very helpful thing at 11pm but stays down and only needs about 2 'put the dummy back in' and shhh shhhhs and so we are both getting a lot of much needed catch up sleep. On Mondays, Thursday and Fridays when the others are in school we do fun things together like shop, go out to eat or sometimes just wash and fold laundry. She doesn't seem to mind and enjoys anything as long as I am in the room. Several times I have found she will roll over and over to get close to me while I am doing my day to day stuff.
She enjoys the water and loves to put anything straight into her mouth. He taking to solids as far as I can remember is the best of the lot. She started out eating a TBSP each meal and is now up to 1 pouch her meal. She doesn't gag and even without teeth she figures out away to get bread, nuggets, eggs and other foods down. Her pinch reflex is very advanced and I am constantly telling her to tell her spirit to slow down because it is more advanced than her human body age (insert giggle here).
All in all she is a little darling and we love our chunky face so much <3 p="">
