Hi everyone Sorry my presence here is so sporadic.
We've not been up to much. Alice still has no teeth and still doesn't crawl. The not being able to crawl is frustrating her. She launches her arms forward then ends up kissing the carpet with a foot stuck under her torso at an odd angle.
I hoestly can't see that she has enough upper body strength to support herself on her arms. I wonder if I ought to be concerned. I never did tummy time with her and she still hates to be on her front. She doesn't roll either Goodness, she sounds like a lazy blob!
She's extremely vocal. I like to think she's working so hard on communication skills, she can't additionally work on gross motor skills. For a little while I thought she might become a bum-shuffler, as she's fond of sitting in the lotus position and bouncing up and down, but she has, as yet, come nowhere near to propelling herself forward.
Ah well, I don't mind too much at all. It has just dawned on me that she doesn't have many months left of true babydom and it saddens me.
I don't think I will have a 3rd as I am already confidently getting rid of baby stuff BUT I won't and can't rule it out 100%.
LL ~ I was ready to go for a second before dd1 turned 1 but circumstances out of our control gave us a nearly 3 year age gap between my two girls. I love it - it's all I have known. But friends who have a small age gap - 15 months (!) - appeared to have a hard time of it during the first year of having two. But now, with a 2 and 3 year old, they seem fine.
Fingerfoods - Despite Alice's lack of teeth, she does pretty well with eating. We started off doing baby-led weaning but now do a mixture of both self-feeding and spoon-feeding, since most of the food we typically eat as a family is not finger-food friendly.
Alice loves toast and bread with cream cheese or melted cheese. She likes strips of cheese, bananas, rice cakes, breadsticks, chips (!), cooked vegetables, pasta, soft fruit. I gave her peeled, sliced nectarine today and she demolished it very swiftly.