The Seventeenth Month: March
13th
A few days ago we awoke in our bed together and you started the morning pretending to be a dog – woofing and panting and laughing. You made me smile and so happy to be waking up with you.
You are so expressive, even speaking in sentences of your own language, but recognisable as 'in there' (in'err) and 'catch the ball', and lots of new words:
baby
flower - all today for the first time, and linked to the correct object!
slipper (flower was the name you gave a leaf)
key
Also: gapes (grapes)
14th
You don't always ask for muk now when you wake up at 6am. The last 2 nights you have slept from bedtime 7/8pm to 6am – amazing. We hope it will continue … no more breastfeeding at night. It took a few days of me holding and cuddling you when you awoke. The first time you cried very crossly, but fell asleep on your own in 7 minutes! I am conscious whenever I feed you (about 2 or 3 times a day) that it won't be for much longer and I think about the way you snuggle up to me, like together in the mornings when your warm mouth squashes up to my breast and then suddenly you get up and notice something more interesting, like a book, or the digital thermometer. Then after a few minutes you search for my boob again, lifting up my tee-shirt, putting your mouth to my belly or hip, because you're not quite sure where my nipple is hidden. Sometimes if I'm going for a pee or taking off a layer, you seem to think it's time for muk, or a bit of skin shows, and you take the opportunity to ask in an insistent and sometimes crying way. But these days activity, a novelty ‘toy’, like my silver chain, or a little snack often distracts you. You mainly have milk in the mornings when we wake up and I get you from your cot, and when you wake from your afternoon sleep, and are often inconsolable. You love to stand up and feed, or be half lying, but wiggling your hips and kicking your legs as I sit with my back against a radiator, reading a book in a half-concentrated way, not like reading when you were 7 months old, because you wiggle too much now. Or when we are lying down together and your hands are twiddling and fidgeting, tucking your arm into my harumaki (Japanese belly warmer) or wrapping it round my back. It's so lovely to have our skin to-skin cuddles.
Your words: 'it's prickly' (repeating my description of the veg brush)
19th
So many words: I really feel you understand everything. Today I asked you to put the basket you were playing with on my foot, which you did. Then you put my slipper on my foot, and said 'slipper'!
You know most of the words in your 'baby things' book and recognise them in the book: chair, nappy, potty, bunny, teddy etc. You also know: eyes, nose, mouth, bear and hat (sometimes confused with head!) The first thing you say in the morning sometimes is eye, pointing to my eye … also foot and toe. And you copy names: Anna, Sol, Sophie and Samuel (Samul).
A few days ago we awoke in our bed together and you started the morning pretending to be a dog – woofing and panting and laughing. You made me smile and so happy to be waking up with you.
You are so expressive, even speaking in sentences of your own language, but recognisable as 'in there' (in'err) and 'catch the ball', and lots of new words:
baby
flower - all today for the first time, and linked to the correct object!
slipper (flower was the name you gave a leaf)
key
Also: gapes (grapes)
14th
You don't always ask for muk now when you wake up at 6am. The last 2 nights you have slept from bedtime 7/8pm to 6am – amazing. We hope it will continue … no more breastfeeding at night. It took a few days of me holding and cuddling you when you awoke. The first time you cried very crossly, but fell asleep on your own in 7 minutes! I am conscious whenever I feed you (about 2 or 3 times a day) that it won't be for much longer and I think about the way you snuggle up to me, like together in the mornings when your warm mouth squashes up to my breast and then suddenly you get up and notice something more interesting, like a book, or the digital thermometer. Then after a few minutes you search for my boob again, lifting up my tee-shirt, putting your mouth to my belly or hip, because you're not quite sure where my nipple is hidden. Sometimes if I'm going for a pee or taking off a layer, you seem to think it's time for muk, or a bit of skin shows, and you take the opportunity to ask in an insistent and sometimes crying way. But these days activity, a novelty ‘toy’, like my silver chain, or a little snack often distracts you. You mainly have milk in the mornings when we wake up and I get you from your cot, and when you wake from your afternoon sleep, and are often inconsolable. You love to stand up and feed, or be half lying, but wiggling your hips and kicking your legs as I sit with my back against a radiator, reading a book in a half-concentrated way, not like reading when you were 7 months old, because you wiggle too much now. Or when we are lying down together and your hands are twiddling and fidgeting, tucking your arm into my harumaki (Japanese belly warmer) or wrapping it round my back. It's so lovely to have our skin to-skin cuddles.
Your words: 'it's prickly' (repeating my description of the veg brush)
19th
So many words: I really feel you understand everything. Today I asked you to put the basket you were playing with on my foot, which you did. Then you put my slipper on my foot, and said 'slipper'!
You know most of the words in your 'baby things' book and recognise them in the book: chair, nappy, potty, bunny, teddy etc. You also know: eyes, nose, mouth, bear and hat (sometimes confused with head!) The first thing you say in the morning sometimes is eye, pointing to my eye … also foot and toe. And you copy names: Anna, Sol, Sophie and Samuel (Samul).
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