When on my arm, Jessica likes looking out of windows at passers-by, cars, bikes and branches blowing in the breeze. In our new place we have net curtains – not my style exactly, but they came with the place and we’ll keep them for now – and Jessica seems to really enjoy when I get in underneath it so that we’re in-between the curtain and the window. She strokes the lace fabric with a happy, fascinated look on her face. (And then she grabs it and tries to put it in her mouth, of course.)
Tried broccoli today. As usual I managed to boil it to a mash and then blend it to a pulp – yum… Without any pepper or other seasoning it tastes watery and bland to me but she ate almost all of it – two little florets – and nothing has come up again (so far…). As it’s the second week of tasting solids now, I thought I’d give her that little bit more to see if she’d keep it. She pulled a bit of a face at the first little spoonful but was happy enough to have more when I offered it – she’s not refused anything yet, which is brilliant. She grabbed the spoon again and tried to put it in her mouth but aimed a bit high and ended up giving herself a broccoli moustache instead… Very cute!
I general, Jessica’s gnawing on most things, including our fingers, and dribbling a fair bit: people (including the latest Health Visitor) have mentioned teething. I guess that process might have started but would have thought that actual teeth showing is a bit further down the line still.
Saying that, we’ve just had two nights of Jessica waking up without any particular explanation. Night before last, she woke up after midnight, both chatty and cranky, for 2 1/2 hours! Needless to say, Daddy had to go to work the following day and fled downstairs to try to get some sleep on the living room floor, whereas Mummy bleary-eyed was trying to work out what was going on – nappy check suggested no problems there and initially Jessica wasn’t really interested in food. Eventually (after Mummy had re-phrased her apology to the neighbours whenever she saw them next a hundred times in her head) a bit of formula sent her off to the Land of Nod. Last night was an inexplicable three-hour-interval affair, starting at 9pm, with Jessica waking up with almost nerve-wrecking predictability… But that evening Jessica had been very grizzly to start with and chewing her hand frenetically, so we tried some Calpol (paracetamol syrup) just in case it was teething. Still not sure what it was. Jessica liked the strawberry-flavoured concoction, though – think she was disappointed she could only have one small spoon-full…
Jessica isn’t yet sitting up unaided but she’s slightly less inclined to slowly and gently topple over sideways (to the left) when we let go now. And with a bit of back support she doesn’t slump together completely, so we’re getting there. Will be so handy when she can sit up to play with things on the floor and reach for the toys she likes rather than depending on us to hand them to her.
Gabriella