Wow! Here we are - a year of Leila! This month has been spent doing lots of pressing, pointing and sorting.
Leila loves pressing buttons and so often will walk around the flat with her phone in her hand pressing the same button again and again (she doesn't look where she is going sometimes - how did we get a teenager already?!) She has discovered light switches although is better at switching on (down) than off. What is really cute is that when she can't do the switch, she grabs our finger and puts it there to flick the switch instead!
Leila will point at things she wants to look at, such as pictures, or things she just wants, like food! She has a little 'after dinner' routine when she is taken down from the table of pointing at all the photos of her grandparents that we have on a nearby shelf - very cute :-)
We have recently made Leila an 'in and out box' with a lid that she likes to open and put things in take things out of. 'In and out' isn't just for 'stuff' though, as Leila likes climbing in and out of things as well. Her favourit is the blue washing up bowl, followed by the ukulele case. Leila also enjoys climing on and off the sofa and the bed - although she doesn't always do this properly! To get up on the sofa I have to give her a 'leg up' but she loves this as she then sits on the back of the sofa looking out of the window onto the street below She can climb onto the low bed in her room where we change her herself, but when it comes to getting down she forgets she can 'scoot' down on her bum and instead stands up and tries to walk off the edge of it!
Leila is gradually getting over being shy in large gatherings (like at Music class or Bounce and Rhyme) as she is becoming less clingy when we first arrive places.
Sleeping, eating and health
Leila spent most of the last month with a cold and has been a right snot monster! Being older she is now more 'squiggly' and doesn't like having her nose wiped (who does?!) so goes round snotty all day if I can't get a good swipe in! She had the cold for a good two weeks, then took a week off (!) before getting it back. Scott has been pretty much the same too. The cold has meant that she has been very cuddly some days (no problems with that) but other days hasn't been wanting to nap which has made it a long day for her and en
This month Leila has been a bit fickle about whether or not to take a long nap each day. Her long nap is usually in the morning if she has one, but sometimes she just takes two shorter ones (instead of a long and a short - she still does two naps a day). It's blooming typical that she chooses to take a long nap and sleep in when I have something planned (like Bounce and Rhyme or Music class at 10am). I can't bring myself to wake her up from a nap to go out, and I still prefer her to nap in her cot rather than the buggy (as the buggy journey is a good 30 minutes and so I guess I'm worried that if I wake her up from a nap at 9.20am she might not fall back to sleep again). Getting out to these events is really good for her socially and so I might need to change my tact if I want her to keep seeing other babies.
Leila can do most nights with just one feed now at the later time of around 4 or 4.30am She can then wake up for the day around 5.30am (sleeping to nearer 6am is a rarity) which is pretty tiring, but she seems raring to go!
Leila loves pressing buttons and so often will walk around the flat with her phone in her hand pressing the same button again and again (she doesn't look where she is going sometimes - how did we get a teenager already?!) She has discovered light switches although is better at switching on (down) than off. What is really cute is that when she can't do the switch, she grabs our finger and puts it there to flick the switch instead!
Leila will point at things she wants to look at, such as pictures, or things she just wants, like food! She has a little 'after dinner' routine when she is taken down from the table of pointing at all the photos of her grandparents that we have on a nearby shelf - very cute :-)
We have recently made Leila an 'in and out box' with a lid that she likes to open and put things in take things out of. 'In and out' isn't just for 'stuff' though, as Leila likes climbing in and out of things as well. Her favourit is the blue washing up bowl, followed by the ukulele case. Leila also enjoys climing on and off the sofa and the bed - although she doesn't always do this properly! To get up on the sofa I have to give her a 'leg up' but she loves this as she then sits on the back of the sofa looking out of the window onto the street below She can climb onto the low bed in her room where we change her herself, but when it comes to getting down she forgets she can 'scoot' down on her bum and instead stands up and tries to walk off the edge of it!
Leila is gradually getting over being shy in large gatherings (like at Music class or Bounce and Rhyme) as she is becoming less clingy when we first arrive places.
Sleeping, eating and health
Leila spent most of the last month with a cold and has been a right snot monster! Being older she is now more 'squiggly' and doesn't like having her nose wiped (who does?!) so goes round snotty all day if I can't get a good swipe in! She had the cold for a good two weeks, then took a week off (!) before getting it back. Scott has been pretty much the same too. The cold has meant that she has been very cuddly some days (no problems with that) but other days hasn't been wanting to nap which has made it a long day for her and en
This month Leila has been a bit fickle about whether or not to take a long nap each day. Her long nap is usually in the morning if she has one, but sometimes she just takes two shorter ones (instead of a long and a short - she still does two naps a day). It's blooming typical that she chooses to take a long nap and sleep in when I have something planned (like Bounce and Rhyme or Music class at 10am). I can't bring myself to wake her up from a nap to go out, and I still prefer her to nap in her cot rather than the buggy (as the buggy journey is a good 30 minutes and so I guess I'm worried that if I wake her up from a nap at 9.20am she might not fall back to sleep again). Getting out to these events is really good for her socially and so I might need to change my tact if I want her to keep seeing other babies.
Leila can do most nights with just one feed now at the later time of around 4 or 4.30am She can then wake up for the day around 5.30am (sleeping to nearer 6am is a rarity) which is pretty tiring, but she seems raring to go!
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