Inspired by the strategic measurements of Tirsku I thought I'd give you ours, no, I mean little girl's (mine aren't ones I'm even willing to find out for myself). At 8 months and 3 days our daughter weighed 7610 grams and was 71cm tall. She has now doubled her birth weight. I think that's pretty amazing!
After rather an eventless November, except for her record breaking 3,5 week sniffles, little girl is now on a roll again. She is veeery close to learning how to crawl - in Finnish the word we use for babies who pull themselves forward with their hands is crawl which is why I translated the word wrong way back when in September when little girl had learnt to scoot.
Little girl hasn't learnt to sit on her own but the pediatrician says that sometimes they first learn to crawl and only then do they learn to sit. Little girl knows how sit without support and does it easily enough but she doesn't actually lift herself up to sit on her own.
She also talks a lot nowadays. She tries out mamamamam and tätätätät and thiäithiäithi and ishi and papapap and is very cute when she lectures her toys. We of course have several times heard her say äiti (mom) and isi (daddy) although admittedly äiti does sound more like äithi and isi like ishi :).
Little girl also clearly knows at least the following words: ei (no), kiitos (thank you), äiti nostaa (mommy will lift you up), sykkyyn (to one's lap, doesn't really translate and is a form of syliin) and tule tänne (come here) in which case she starts scooting towards you with amazing speed. Her sense of humour is developing fast, too, and it is so much fun to start to see what amuses her.
Last night was a very-little-sleep-for-mommy-night. I read that separation anxiety and fears in general increase when there is a spurt in a child's development since it means that they understand more about what is happening around them. In little girl's case it shows in erratic sleep and a huge desire to hold my hand and preferably sleep on me.
On the other hand, she also woke me up at one point laughing out loud in her sleep. I think she woke me five or six times (the details are a bit fuzzy) and when I finally took her to sleep beside me early in the morning she just kept on holding to my hand. It is very sweet but it would be nice to be able to change one's position, too.
Now she is asleep in her crib and I hope we will have it a bit easier tonight. Tomorrow is our congregation's traditional carol service and I'm reading from Luke 1 the story about angel Gabriel and Mary. As the service only starts at 6 p.m. and ends around 7 p.m. it'll be a bit challenging for our family since the little one usually gets her evening porrige around 7.30 and I'm pretty sure she's going to be both starving and anything but ready to calm down. Fortunately the church is the one closest to us so it won't take more than ten minutes to drive back home and we can take it easy on Wednesday.
Next weekend we are going to see a house that on paper looks exactly like what we are looking for. A big lot, in the area we like the best (Piikkiö), a renovated kitchen and sauna + bathroom, fire place, built in an era when they built healthy houses i.e. in the fifties, and with tons of room. It has the added bonus of 12 apple trees and a summer kitchen, sigh! We are really looking forward to seeing it.
On the other hand, if we do really like it we're in trouble because we first need to get our appartment sold which is going to be a challenge with how things now are. Last year they sold in November 40% more houses than this year AND it is the worst month to sell. With the world economy at the state it is buying property has come to an unforeseen adrupt halt. But we need a bigger home. This one has quite simply gotten too small.
It's incredible really. A tiny little person, a meter shorter than you and weighs next to nothing but comes with so much gear that our place is bursting at it's seams. So, against all odds we house hunt and pray that someone will be needing a home just like ours in the next months. We've been very happy here and I really do wish the same happiness to whoever eventually buys our home :).
1 comment:
makes you wonder how people managed in the 'good old days' with a whole family in two rooms doesn't it?
see you tonight. This is my favourite service in Advent.
I was wishing it was starting at the old time of 6:30pm until I read that finishing at 7:15 is already quite late for you.
And yes the service is about 1h15 mins and needs to be the only way to shorten it is to sing fewer carols and since this is the only time this year (there won't be a St Stephen's Day thing I've heard) ...we'll really do this in English to cut it back is to deny us something really essential to our souls I think.
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