Geoff and Gina's Little Addition: August 2012

Lots of photos this month as we've been busy!!

Stella is learning & growing so fast...and crawling all over the place at some speed! She loves being outdoors but she'd rather be crawling than be carried. Stella is now fully in the 'cruising' phase & is walking with anything she can find for support.

Stella now says 'Bye Bye' whilst waving.. her first word(s)!!!! :)

No teeth have popped out yet, but we found out that my brother, sister and I all didn't get teeth before we were a year old either! That doesn't mean that we haven't had some sleep disruption because of the little teeth, with other teething symptoms like not wanting to eat her food, a raised temperature, extreme clingy and tearfulness...

Sleep is a little better - 1 to 2 wakings a night, except for a few nights that she's kept us up all night by waking every 20 to 40 mins.

Although she loves fiddling with the food in our plates, Stella doesn't have a lot of things she will reliably eat:

For breakfast she usually has mashed banana with double cream Greek yoghurt, and some Banana Porridge (by Hipp Organic).At the end of this month I started giving her cow's milk in her porridge instead of formula (the last 2 months) - I pumped milk for her breakfast before that.
She eats a little bit of bread / baby rice cakes / fruit / yoghurt for lunch
Supper is pretty much porridge again... some yoghurt / fruit as she won't eat anything else.

She has eaten or at least tasted chicken, lamb, beef, some veg and other things off our plates. She ate peas one afternoon at her Aunty T's house that Gracie fed her, but hasn't ingested a pea since then! She just spits them out!

Here is our photo & video journal of the last month:

A lovely walk at Scarborough

Fun with leaves on the stoep

Cape Point :)

Exploring a rose in the garden

Fun with Mommy's hair!

First Sushi (actually just playing with the chopsticks!)

A beautiful day down at Boulders

Dudu

Geoff & Stella down at the vlei, between the lillies

Stella not too sure about the giant daisy bush!

Imhoff Vlei

It's been very cold = lots of fires -

Stella likes to help Daddy blow on the fire!

Aided walking... lots of that going on!

More fun on the stoep... crawling... Stella's rock star sign

Walks down to the vlei

..Stella always rides on Daddy's shoulders

Kommetjie Beach

We went to Mossel Bay on holiday for a week which was such a treat! We stayed with Nanny and Bumpa. Stella's cousins were also there for the weekend so they had a lot of fun together!