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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

6 Months Old

My little Hamie is 6 months old today. TIme simply flies by so quickly. In temperate countries, the changing seasons remind one of the passing of time. Here in SIngapore where the weather is the same almost throughout the year, it used to be the festivities that reminded me as the months and years go by.

Now with the little one, seeing her developments and progress makes me more aware of time. She's now able to flip with ease, sit unsupported for a little while and she's also trying to crawl, although without much success. She lifts her butt high and tries to wriggle and move her legs, but her arms are still not strong enough to propel her forward. I'm sure soon she'll be able to do so.

She's 8.6kg and 68cm long now. She gained only 1kg in the past 2 months and so DaddyHam and I were worried about her development. However, when her statistics were plotted on the graph, she was a whooping 97th percentile in terms of weight, so there isn't any cause for worry. If anything, we might wanna start worrying if she is too big, her length was only 75% percentile.

Read an article today in which research shows that women of the future will tend to be shorter and chubbier. I hope Hamie is an exception.

Ever since we started her on solids 1 week ago, she has been struggling during her milk feeds. We have to literally pin her down and push the bottle to her. Funny thing is once in, she'll start drinking hungrily for max 1 minute. Then the struggle will start all over again. Its getting difficult to feed her!

But she's enjoying her solids. She likes her rice cereal and the carrots and pumpkin. That's all she has tried at the moment. There was also supposed to be potatoes. Except that something went wrong and the puree ended looking like a mass of starchy glue. Gross.

And her present this month? A sweet pink bear. I've high hopes that she and Ms Bear will be good friends. She started talking and holding Ms Bear the moment she saw her. They're both cuties!

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