(The requisite "I have no time any more, it's 10 days late")
It certainly feels like 3 months has passed since I last reflected on her development. It feels like forever. As usual, we've managed to do a fair bit in 3 months.
She's doing very well. Growing nicely. Still around the 25th percentile for weight, but now up to the 50th percentile for height. We just had to upgrade her from an infant car seat to a "big kid" car seat, because she was maxing it out on height, not weight. She seems to have handled the transition okay, but we haven't done any long car trips since making the change.
She's now sitting really well, and pulling herself up into a standing position. She's cruising around on furniture a bit (and sporting various bruises to show for it). She started crawling at six and a half months, and now there's no stopping her. She's into everything. No more teeth have appeared yet. Her top teeth have been looking like they want to do something for ages. I think, given a recent uptick in fussiness, their appearance may be imminent.
On the food front, she's eating all sorts of things. We've got a few infant/toddler cookbooks, so we still are predominantly feeding her either a combination of pureed fruits and vegetables, or a few pureed dishes that I've prepared (mainly vegetable stews or risotto). She also enjoys bread, toast and has taken to Vegemite on toast, like a good little Aussie. The other night we ate out at our local Italian restaurant, and she had some garlic bread and some penne pasta with marinara sauce. She's definitely enjoying finger food.
We went back to Australia for a couple of weeks recently, and she handled the flights extremely well, and had an absolute ball back in Australia. She'd just started sleeping through the night a few times before we left for the trip, and didn't sleep as well while we were in Australia, but got back into the swing of things in under a week of getting back to the US.
She's so much fun at this age. She laughs, she plays. She gets so excited when I get home from work in the evenings. I love her and being a Dad so much.
