It seems with each passing day that Éowyn changes, develops or learns some new trick and this week has been no different, but more of that later.
I was working over last weekend, Thursday through to the Sunday but this week has been my short week, working only Wednesday and Thursday. However with Éowyn’s latest regime it means that I don’t actually get to see her on the days that I work. Yes, Éowyn’s sleeping regime is still working. She goes to bed about 1900-1930, takes her dream feed of hungry baby milk at about 2230 and has been sleeping through the night until at least 0600 and sometimes later. There has been a couple of days where she has woken earlier, but on the whole that is the routine. As you can imagine we are delighted, for a disturbed night to be the exception and not the rule, means that we can go to bed relaxed in the knowledge that, in theory, we should get a good night’s sleep.
Good Friday saw a visit from Nanny Fran, Auntie Liz and Auntie Mary. Apart from Nanny Fran’s brief cuddle at work last Wednesday they hadn’t seen Éowyn for over a month, so they saw some big changes in her appearance and demeanor. Obviously she has grown quite a bit, but also she is mobile and far more aware of her surroundings. Her crawling is still in a reverse direction, although she now lifts herself into the classic crawl stance, with legs tucked under her body; but still hasn’t worked out how this translates itself into forward motion.
Unfortunately, and why we still are not too sure, she wasn’t happy sitting on either Nanny Fran’s or her Auntie’s laps. Perhaps her growing yet under-developed cognisance could not reconcile the fact that Nanny Fran and her Aunties were in her house, usually she goes to them; perhaps she just didn’t want to be cuddled, there were more interesting things on the floor to play with. It is possible that it is because she hadn’t seen them for a month but we don’t think that it is because the next day she did the same thing to her Granddad when he and Nanny came to visit and she sees them quite regularly. Then again, perhaps she is just going through one of those phases. Obviously it is something that we will have to keep an eye on because it is a little upsetting to see her crying when she is being held by her grandparents.
Easter weekend has also seen her take a couple of steps forward. She has begun to eat three solid meals a day, and eats whatever we give her with gusto, including her newest meal: Cauliflower Cheese. She eats from her new feeding chair that Nanny Fran bought her for Easter, so she sits a little more upright and you don’t get into quite the same mess as when you have her sitting on your lap. We have also given her some ‘finger food’: a little bit of Easter Chocolate, a little bit of cheese and most importantly, the finger food that no baby around town should ever be with out: a Farleys Rusk. She thoroughly enjoyed sitting, chewing her rusk, taking after her dad who even now would quite readily eat one.
One last trick that she has learnt this weekend, started out of the blue on Friday and was mastered by Saturday is the crawl-to-sitting manoeuvre. She begun to tuck her legs in front of her on Friday and by Saturday morning she was in full sitting stance, as you can see from the photos below and on the Flickr page. She is so precocious that sometimes we have a job to remember that she is only just 6 months old. We are wondering whether this latest manoeuvre is a precursor to bum-shuffling. Stay tuned to find out.
Please enjoy the photos
Love and Peace
Baggie!
