Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Johari's 4 months of teething is producing....






Johari has been teething for at least four months now. And about a week ago the first tooth started to come through. I stuck my finger in there and finally felt a sharp edge. Now, a second one is working on cutting itself through. Soon she will have her bottom 2 teeth. Exciting.
Experimentation with food is always a good time. Pears can never go wrong. She LOVES pears. She can gobble up a whole pear (in slices) on her own. Pears bring Johari joy and make her bounce to her own beat. We are working on other foods that she can self-feed. She likes to chew on some chunks of mango and peach. She will suck on my apple. She dabbles in broccoli but I don't think that much of it actually went down the hatch.
She had a kissing session with the mirror. Loving oneself is a beautiful thing (as long as it doesn't go too far, of course). After she made out with herself in the mirror for a while she flopped back on the pillow in exhaustion from her kissing session.
Her squawking is getting even louder and more excited at times. It looks like she just needs to express her excitement to the world. Energy that she wants to release with a monumental squawk.
Tummy time is still not that cool. So she doesn't get to spend a whole lot of time working on how she might figure out crawling. We try to sneak a bit of tummy time in here and there throughout the day but frustration quickly follows. She very much prefers to hold on to hands and try to walk around.
I think she may have a dancing bug in her. She likes to bounce to the music or sometimes just her own internal song that is playing.