Yay! finally, after weeks of trying to teach Clara a party trick she has mastered the art of clapping and is happy to show off for anyone who asks. I couldn’t be more proud of her. It feels like a massive breakthrough to finally be able to see that she is able to understand instructions and carry them out and I’m sure she will build on this over the coming weeks and months by learning more and more skills and understanding more and more requests.
Tooth number two has arrived
OMG we have a second tooth! It’s the right bottom middle one that has just started to stick through now and again she has been very tolerant – if it has caused her any pain she definitely hasn’t made us aware of it, I’m so proud of her!
Yesterday we began to brush her teeth for the first time. We used a small finger toothbrush and combined it with a little song to make the experience more fun. Clara is quite curious about what we are doing and it doesn’t seem to bother her too much, although she likes to bite down on the brush which makes it really hard to move it around in her mouth! We are going to make sure that we incorporate it into her getting up and going to bed routines from now on so that she learns to get used to it. Even though she has only got the two teeth we are still brushing her whole mouth as if she has a full set as I think it is a good idea to start as we mean to go on. I guess we will move onto a proper baby toothbrush fairly soon once a few more teeth have appeared as it will probably become quite painful to keep my finger in her mouth if she keeps on biting the brush!
And she’s off…
Clara has worked out how to commando crawl! She has been trying to push herself forward for days now so we guessed that it probably wouldn’t be long before she sussed it out, but it has still taken me by surprise a bit.
Weaning – week 9
This week we tried spaghetti for the first time (definitely need to cut this up smaller for our next attempt as she really wasn’t happy about it!) and also tried fish, which Clara seemed to quite enjoy.