Another month has passed. With a lot to report. Melbourne goes through Daylight Savings in early October so that was something new for us. It was already starting to get bright by 7 a.m. So it makes sense I guess. Initially Meera was waking up around 8.30 but over time (maybe cos it was getting brighter earlier) she's started to wake as early as 7 am! Her schedule has been pretty crazy lately. There are days where she can sleep till 8.30 and then there are days where I can hear her stirring before 7 am. Most nights she goes to bed around 8.30 pm. Of course weekends are completely off schedule. Since we're usually out and about she sometimes only manages a half hour nap and if we get home late maybe goes to bed at 10pm. But she seems to make up for it during the weekdays and doesn't seem too bothered. There's been days when she sleeps from 8.30 pm to 8 am. 11.5 hours straight and I notice this messes up her nap time. She's also started crying when she wakes up from her naps. I don't know why. It only happens for naps. Can't figure it out. Hopefully its a phase. She seems to go through this every once in a while. I just pray that she isn't ready to completely stop napping. I need her to nap so I can get a mid day break!
Meera got her caught her first cold since coming to Melbourne. I blame myself for this. What started as a warm day turned into quite a chilly one and we were unprepared. So Meera was walking around with no sweater and the next day her nose was runny and she was coughing! We bought a Vicks Humidifier (recommended by Nani) which helped (I think). Needless there were a few sleepless nights thanks to this cold. But after 3 days she was recovering nicely. Lesson learnt though....never go anywhere without a sweater!
Not sure if I've mentioned this before but Meera can drink from a cup! For over a month. It's not like I regularly give her a cup to drink from (I worry to much about messes) but occasionally when we're drinking juice (her favourite) or milk we let her sip from our cup. And Miss Independent here has to do it herself. Jing has been letting her do it for quite a while before I actually allowed her to. I don't know when or how she picked it up but she does it quite well. And with hardly any spills!
I notice that Meera is quite advanced in terms of gross motor skills. However not so good with fine motor She still has trouble with the shape sorter (most times she just tries to force the pieces in. Not sure if its due to lack of focus, patience or maybe practice). I really need to concentrate more on this area I think.
We also taught her how to share and take turns. Usually when it comes to food. Amazingly she will wait patiently when we say to take turns.
She's also saying a lot of words now. But has yet to join 2 words together. She also makes signs for some things like drawing (when she sees crayons or wants to draw something).
On the feeding front, I've stopped making porridge for her. This has actually been quite difficult cos I now struggle with what to give her everyday. It was so easy with porridge since I just chucked everything in the slow cooker. Now I need to make sure what I cook is soft enough. I also need to make a variety of things since she gets bored if it's the same thing. She seems to eat less but maybe that's because it's now solid food instead of porridge which is mostly water (at least that's what I'd like to believe).
