little monkey

My little precious is growing a mile a minute, I say that but in actual fact shes probably only put on half a kilo in the last month, that is kinda normal but when you measure it (on the scales) you kinda expect that shes puto n huge amounts of weight! i think she has grown mainly in personality! She is now almost 5 months, and what a blessing it has been to watch her grow and develop and achieve the silliest little things. At prestn, shes learnt to kind of 'miki'. Like you know how mosts samoans tend to call each other, or their dogs, they miki...yeah well she does that, repeatedly now! She wakes up at night, lies in bed and does that! Some palagis here at the moment have commented on it saying she must be a true samoan!! ha ha!! Little Fob in the making!

She is slowly getting stronger and stronger, funny how it always tends to be assymetrical. Like she discovered her left hand way before her right, and now pushes up on the right side mostly, eventually it all evens out. :)

I started her on solids a few weeks ago, mainly mashed up pumpkin. I didnt necessarily want to, but almost felt pressured into it, by people and family all around me. Everyone just wanting me to feed her and fatten her up quick, under the false notions that she would develop any quicker if she were fatter! anyways, i truley believe that as a direct result of that, she became horribly constipated, i had to stop solids altogether and flush her out with laxatives, but not before enduring a week of her being irritable and grumpy all day and crying everytime she tried to poo! Grr...note to self, mum knows best and don't succumb to all the well intended but not necessarily best advice from those around me!

We went for a general check up with pediatrician a few weeks back, and what was funny was her weight was good, average for her age, but her length was above average for her age (in the top 25% of all lengths for babies born) and her head circumference was Waaayyyy above average!!(top 5% or largest heads!) LOL! thats her dads head right there! sometimes when she is on her tummy looking up she tends to drop her head down every once in a while, as if it just got way too heavy!! thats why we only put her on her tummy on the bed, all the baby books say she should be doing tummy time on the floor now, but its like- are you kidding? our rock solid floor, i think she would sooner break her nose with a head bang if we did that!!LOL!