Tuesday, 3 September 2013 – Today, Sam tried to roll over from her back to her tummy completely unassisted and on the floor. She was trying to look at me as I was sitting behind her, and once she had wiggled around so that she could see me with her head cocked at ninety degrees, she gave up trying to roll over. She also giggled at me for the first time. I’m not sure if she was amused at me sitting down while saying “and”, or if she was gleeful because she was about to be fed, but it felt really good to have it happen. The best thing was that hubby was there to see it. She also started talking to the girl in the mirror in the bathroom for the first time.
Sam has also started exhibiting teething symptoms (pulling ears, chewing hands, drooling, whinging), although I am also aware that some of these are developmental, some are tired signs, and some are signs of ear infections (although she had no trouble lying down to go to sleep). Nurofen works well for pain relief, but we do try and limit its use to desperate times when she appears to be in a lot of pain.
Saturday, 7 September 2013 – Sam officially rolled from her back to her tummy on a flat surface today. She can only do it if she has something in front of her to grab onto to pull herself over, but she’s doing it completely under her own steam, even if she is grabbing our hands to do it. We’re so proud of our little girl. She now spends a good deal of time trying to figure out how to do it when we’re not there. Once she figures out how to roll from her tummy to her back, there’ll be no stopping her.
Tuesday, 10 September 2013 – Sam’s teeth seemed to have settled down for now. No toothy pegs yet, but with the amount of gumming she does on my nipple, I can’t say I’m looking forward to teeth. She’s getting quite obsessed with watching me eat, so I suspect a formal introduction to solids isn’t too far down the track.
Sam is quite able to roll over on the bed (all the way over now...back to front to back again), but she’s still trying to figure out how to roll over from back to front on the floor. She spends hours trying, and she has the most success when she’s angry. She can get her legs and hips over, but can’t move the weight of her head and shoulders over unless she has something to grab onto and pull on. She can’t roll from her front onto her back yet on the floor, except the times when she’s not quite rolled over from back to front properly and loses her balance. She’s trying to work out the mechanics of crawling (or paddling a surf board LOL), and she can now lift her 
She loves sitting up too, and is starting to play around with standing, both with our support.
With summer coming quickly, I’m now able to put her in all the cute rompers that are available. I’ve discovered that pastel pink looks very wrong on her, but red is totally her colour. I’ve also got a navy Minnie Mouse dress coming, and I suspect that colour will look amazing on her. The American red, white and blue is very much her colours. She fits into 00 (3-6 months) clothes now, and only a few special 000 (0-3 months) clothes still fit.
Wednesday, 11 September 2013 – I am very proud to announce that Sam rolled over from her back to her tummy, on the floor, completely unassisted. The video is of her rolling over a week later.
Saturday, 14 September 2013 – Sam just rolled from her tummy to her back for the first time, and it was so special because Brad got to see it too. I’ll be in trouble the day she puts the two motions together and starts rolling to where she wants to get. Does anyone have any suggestions for playpens?
Sunday, 15 September 2013 – Today Sam started rolling in the cot instead of sleeping, and then when she did sleep (for 10 minutes), it was in a half rolled over position. She has also started a new game of planking when she’s on the change table. She stiffens up from neck to knees and pushes herself up. Quite annoying when you’re trying to do her nappy up.
Wednesday, 18 September 2013 – Sam likes to roll onto her stomach pretty much as soon as you put her down and turn your back. The only problem is that she hasn’t yet rolled back onto her back since Saturday, so she spends a lot of her time yelling encouragement to herself to figure it out.
Friday, 27 September 2013 – Sam met her grandparents (my parents) for the first time this week. She has really enjoyed all the extra attention that this brings, and all the extra toys they bought her. She has been a little grumpier that usual, due to quite a number of things. She’s going through a growth spurt (or a wonder week), a sleep regression (trying to roll), teething, and she’s also been chronically overtired for the last week. All this combined to make a tired baby who was starting to wake in the middle of the night for extra feeds, and a stressed out mum who wasn’t getting any time to herself. At the worst point, we were down to 9 hours sleep in 24 hours, which is 5 hours short of her usual 14 hours, and this happened for three days in a row. Luckily, I decided to unload of my BFF (she’s already had one baby, and her second is only a week behind Sam, so she’s either going through the same thing, about to go through it, or has been through it before), and she had some good ideas for getting things back on track, starting with the 7pm sleep, which had disappeared this week. She’s been feeding at 5:30pm and 6:30pm, with the bath at 6:00pm, but we’ve changed the bath to 5:00pm, and this seems to have made a big difference. Fingers crossed the good sleeping continues.
This month’s favourites
Lamaze ladybug – This toy is primarily a teething toy, so it spends a lot of time in her mouth, but she also likes to feel the yellow loops on the side.
Summer sleep suits – This is the perfect outfit for bedtime at the moment. Cool enough for the warm nights, and warm enough for the cool nights with an extra blanket.
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