Tag: Bec

Bec has been standing up for quite a while now, and she quickly began to walk around the edge of furniture, especially her beautiful big toy box that Pa made for her, but she took it to a new level today.

We were at a partnership meeting at the church, and Bec crawled off to her Pram and stood up at. The problem was, the brake wasn’t on, so it started to roll away, and she had to walk behind it to keep up. She kept going, occasionally stumbling and dragging her feet, but managing to stay upright and walking.

We were both so proud.

Bec has discovered the set of three stairs going up to the rumpus room in the middle of the house. She crawled up to them last week and was happy to kneel at the first step and look rather proud of herself.

Yesterday, she got to the steps again and stood herself up at them and tried to push herself up onto the next step. I said to Bern that I thought she would be probably be able to get up those stairs in about three weeks.

Fast forward to the next day….. Bec makes it up the stairs. It was a long process and we had our hearts in our mouths the wohle time, standing behind her trying not to distract her but still be ready to catch her if she fell.

I think I’m going to have to adjust my predictions in the future.

Bec quickly caught on with the whole crawling thing, and is now able to cover extrordinary distances at quite a pace. If you chase after her, she giggles and redoubles her effort, which is very cute.

With the commando crawling though, she has a habbit of leaning left a little, which means she gets a few bumps on her head as she curves into walls and doorways.

Since she has been rolling, Bec has also been getting up on her knees a bit and looking like she was going to crawl, (In fact she has been able to push herself backward quite a bit) and tonight she actually made some progress forward, enough to reach a toy that we put down out of her reach. It was a fantastic moment!

Well, it has finally happened, and just a couple of days before we move: Bec has started rolling around, making lots of progress as she covers the floor exloring new areas. The first time Bern noticed was when she put Bec down to play under the play Gym and came back a minute or two later to find her over by the heater chewing on a network cable…

It is great to see the progress, but I kinda wish she had waited until we had moved!

Rebecca has started rolling over a lot more frequently now, in fact when Bern tried to give her some Tummy Time the other day, Bec rolled staright onto her back. Bern then put her back on her tummy and this all happenend 4 more time. Bern eventually got the hint…

The other new thing is blowing kisses. I blow a kiss into her room every time I walk past her door, as well as at other times, and she has started doing the same thing. I thought it might be an accident at first, but she actually does it in response to me blowing her kisses. She’s so cute..

Rebecca rolled over for the first time the other day (actually it was nearly two weeks ago, on her 3 month Birthday”) but I missed it (I was in the room but had my back to her). I’ve held off posting hoping that she would do it again, but she hasn’t. It wont be too much longer though and we’ll be chasing her around the house.

Yesterday Rebecca was baptised into the church at a beautiful ceremony at St John’s in Mitcham. We had dozens of friends and Family present, and many more joined us for a celebratory lunch at home afterwards.

Huge thankyous to Jen & Graham and Daniel as Godparents. We think you are really special people and know you will be a really wonderful influence in Bec’s life. Other people to thank include Brendan (sausages), Marie (cake), Chris & Lisa (cooking the BBQ) Mon, Jase, Tam, Dan, Chris, Lisa, Jeanette, Julie, Paul, Nette & Rachael (Setup, Bread, Salads and Desserts) and anyone else I’ve forgotten.

It was great to see everyone there. If we didn’t get a chance to catch up with you on the day, we will soon, we promise.

Rebecca was weighed again today (27/3) and she came in at a whopping 4740g or 10lb 7.5oz. From such tiny begingings she is now really thriving, to the point where she now has a double chin, and when she dribbles milk out of her bottle, it’s really hard to mop up. The fact that she has such a strong neck means she keeps her head where she wants it, and doesn’t just move it at the slightest push from the mop up cloth like she used to.
She is now 54cm long and starting to get a bit of hair.

Rebecca has now passed her 2 month Birthday” and is doing great. Her weight is up to 3760g (8lb 4oz) and she is starting sleep for longer periods at night. She went off the breast early in Feb and has progressed from 90ml bottles up to 130ml per feed. She feeds 4 hourly during the day and has been known to sleep for 5-6 hours at a stretch during the night.

She has started smiling at people too, which is really cute. She is really filling out, and getting taller (longer?) (52.1cm) and is well out of the 00000 clothes and moving through the 0000’s at a great rate of knotts.

Bern and I are also starting to settle down and get life back in order, though there never seems to be enough time to sleep..