Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Milestones: Four Months

It's exhausting work being a busy girl about town
Age: 20 months 1 week
Time with us: 4 months (three months in Australia)
Height: 83cm
Weight:9.3kg
Teeth:10 with 2 lower molars almost through

Words

Mum (first word), dada, up, o (for Jo & toast), hot, hat, Nana, banana, ar (for Pa), car, & park, nan (for nappy), more, on, nose, ear/eye, Hum (for Humpty Dumpty), Hay-de-ho, duck, mmm (for anything delicious), train, cat, ta
Animal sounds
For Scarface claw/cats/tigers 'grrrrrrrrrrrr', Dog 'wfff', Mouse 'ee ee', monkey 'ooo ooo'
Comprehension
Follows most simple instructions: Get your towel, let's put on your shoes/slippers, let's go shopping/outside/upstairs, go get mummies/daddies shoes, let's bring the washing in,
let's go to the park, it's time to go to sleep (most unpopular)
Recent Accomplishments:
Learning to draw, wanting/learning to go up stairs upright, beginning to feed herself, insisting on cleaning her teeth by herself,
Sleep
Sleeps from 7:30pm to 5am, sleeps ~1hour during the day (sometimes 2)
Cute Things
Waving to everyone when out and about (now considered to be a Northcote celebrity)
Dancing and grooving along every time she hears music, passes a CD shop
Puts her hands up in the air when we read 'Guess How Much I Love You'
As we go up High Street towards the Italian cake shop starts saying 'mmmmmmmm' in anticipation of a cake and babychino.
Said 'mmmmmmmm' as we passed the Easter egg section of the supermarket
Absolutely loves Scarface claw and says 'grrrrrrrr' every time she sees a picture of him
Loves to sweep, clean with a wettex and put on Mummy's rubber gloves
Jammed her finger in a door and every time she passes the door, comes over pretending to cry and wanting a cuddle and kiss on her finger
When Mum is on the phone climbs on top of the table or pulls the phone plug out
Groans as she goes to pick something up (imitating Mum)
Likes Mum to hit her nude bottom as she dashes up the stairs