Amani is 9 Months Old

reaching the 9 month milestone means a wider variation of food. food is about the only thing i can write about with amani because she doesn't do much of anything but eat. babbles, she does. play with toys, she does. grabs things and pulls on them, that she definitely does. but most in stationary mode.

she doesn't move much, there goes my dream of seeing her crawl and shuffle. she does move. but mainly in 360 degree turns. like a lazy susan. that's what we call her - our not so little lazy susan.

ok so she's shown some improvements. sorry amani, you have, mummy's just being dramatic. she's pushed herself up, she's mastered straightening her arms and pushing her chest up. she's also sitting down, able to balance herself left to right, front and back. she can control her fall from her sitting position so that she goes down slowly and not with a thump. she's grabbing on to her feet. yes, she's putting her feet in her mouth, that bit. i'm happy. she's getting there, she's trying.

for her 9th month, i made her some special food. i'm still lazy to do much and i'm sticking to the same ol' same ol' recipes but adding a few new food here and there for variety. amani's drinking only 2 bottles a day now. yup, that little. both times when she's about to go off to dreamland. once before her afternoon nap and once before bedtime. her breakfast is heavy because she has breakfast a couple of hours after she wakes up, that's almost 12 hours of no meals, between her bedtime bottle and her breakfast. so i make really heavy oatmeal. sometimes with apples, sometimes with bananas, sometimes with carrots and potatoes and cucumbers or anything that's from her dinner that can't be stored in her dinner container - ie i made a bit too much and have a small amount that can't be a full dinner meal so it becomes breakfast.

for her dinner i've made quite a bit of types of food. i've started to add more chicken (she had chicken before but in smaller quantities), i've added beef and i've recently added salmon. she's also taken to peas in her meals. and spinach. and i've also added french beans when i make them for our family meal. i think i'll add some dates and extra virgin olive oil to her meals this month, and cheese too, to see how she takes them. i'm a softie and have been blending her food a bit too fine for a 9-month-old. i'll do some coarse blending so that she can exercise her munching and gnawing this month.

amani's due for her check up this month. maybe she'll be given the first dose of her mmr jab, i don't know. can't wait to see how much she weighs though. i think she's getting leaner and longer. hopefully she doesn't put on too much weight.