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2.7.08

nine months

and you have now been outside as long as you have been inside.

Here you aren't eating everything, since everything would include green peppers, and tortillas, and i think proper fresh soft tortillas would do you just fine but the papery ones that come wrapped in plastic aren't so great, and everything would include - well - shellfish, which we don't eat very much of, so - and honey, which we also don't eat very much of - so basically when we have egg and cheese sandwiches, you can only have the cheesey parts. Yesterday you ate our veggie schnitzels and you ate our cucumber salad and you ate our bread (and you also ate your babyfood puree stuff). This morning i suppose you didn't crunch my granola as there's milk in it - but you ate a lot of Daddy's vanilla yogurt. The tagesmutter says you are eating everything at her house too. Still avoiding uncooked/unprocessed cows' milk until you are a year, but strawberries are yummy and citrussy things are yummy. I found some nice dairy-free sorbet so when you wake up and, well, also when Daddy gets home to see the fun, we'll feed you some nice cold things.

Good hot day for it.

Maybe he will want to take you swimming first anyway, as it's a good hot day for that too, and we've already been to the pool twice. That's twice, today. And it's €2.50 to get into the pool for adults (kinderfreibad, so kinder sind frei) but it's €3.40 bus fare to get to the free parks or the Donau since it's too far to walk. And apparently when i was a baby my lips turned blue, and yours got a little purpley but you were having so much fun! This is why we went in twice: because you get cold so quickly but you enjoy it so much, so we can't really stay for long but it is too entertaining to not maximize.

Also entertaining: you waved at me in the mirror on the elevator. I think every time we go in the elevator i wave at you in the mirror - well, it's just that sort of elevator - and so that is totally a sign! you know a word and it means Hello! Kinda. Total genius baby. And you played it off like it was not a big deal at all and i don't know if you're ever going to do it again and you made it look so natural, like you've been doing it forever, that i didn't quite realize immediately that you just waved at me in the mirror but you did. Before you went all smiley. And i don't know when a repeat performance will happen.

And at the pool you pulled up to standing, all the way to standing, on your stroller. You've been doing this thing where even though you're still doing the army-tummy crawl, you stay still for a moment and go on your hands and toes and stick your little bum as far in the air as it will go and you get very excited about this, your perfect yoga pose.

Your new tooth has not come in yet but the tagesmutter thinks it will soon and since she is magic and usually right, one tends to believe her. Especially because at lunch you didn't want Cheerios, you didn't want rice cakes, you didn't want anything you had to chew, you wanted cold babyfood potatoes and zucchini. Though you did want to feed yourself with the spoon. Which you can do - again, like you've been doing it forever, like it's not remotely a big deal - but you can't quite reload the spoon yet. So we will have to develop a strategy for letting you feed yourself and somehow get more food onto the spoon. I think a second spoon is in order.

Labels: baby, milestones

scrawled @ 14:53