Figures, as of 13 October:
Weight: 12.8kg (900g increase, 97th percentile)
Height: 81cm (1.5cm increase, 80th percentile)
Head Circumference: 49cm (no change, 99th percentile)
Samantha’s weight has now caught up with her head, and her height continues to strive to catch up. As you can tell, her appetite is rather large, and we make every effort to provide her with as much good food (i.e. as little sugar as possible) as she wants. At present, she loves mandarins and bananas.
All this growing could also be attributed to a growth spurt that we’ve been witnessing for the past few weeks. Sam’s speech has really started to develop, and lots of problem solving has been going on. She loves to sit down and put shapes in holes, figure out how to put shirts on and off, and work out what she needs to move to access that thing that is just out of her grasp. She also calls out for “Da”, “Daddy”, “Ma”, “Mum”, and “Mummy” at various times of the day, and she’s happiest when she has both her parents in her sight. Her other favourite word is “Hi” and waving.
Samantha is a cheeky little thing, despite popular opinion that she couldn’t possibly give us any trouble, or that she just doesn’t scream. She likes nothing better than to open the sliding doors (glass and screen) if they’re left unlocked and running from the house, either down the front stairs and down the drive way, or out the back door, through the back yard and down the driveway. Luckily, she doesn’t do any of this silently, and I’m very glad that she only runs while saying “ahhhhhhhhhhhhh”.
We now have 14 teeth. All molars have now been cut, in addition to the two canines on the left side of her mouth. I had been previously told that the canines were the worst to cut, but apart from some extra chewing on things, I haven’t really noticed.
Here is a picture from Sam’s first time at the beach:
