Crawl baby crawl

In my previous post I mentioned that Sophie is a backwards crawling baby but since yesterday she has shown progress in crawling forward. But she only does it when she's alone and no one is watching. Daddy thinks it's because she's bored out of her wits so got to crawl to her toys to keep herself entertained.

She'll first reach out and then do a half kneel and throw herself forward as she pushes herself with her legs. But she's not gotten that far yet so Daddy is cracking his head on how to "contain" Sophie when she does crawl.

Very soon we'll need to baby proof the whole house too.

Happy Birthday Popo

At 7 and a half months, Sophie is getting more mobile. No longer is she contended with just being on her all 4s. But she has mastered how to maneuver her body while on her all 4s. But she is more likely to go in her usual reverse gear or in circles which is such a cute sight.

Sophie on all fours

Distracted by the TV

Mesmerized by the TV

Not too long ago, Alexis was asking how babies can get from a crawling position to sitting up. I always thought perhaps they'll roll to their side and push themselves up to a sitting position. But the answer was revealed yesterday. Sophie would go from all fours and then do a reverse crawl and as she does it, she'll do a neat split and push her body up with her arms and Ta Dah, she's sitting up! How cool is that :) I'm sure her gymnastics YiYi will be so proud of her too. She has such agility that even if her feet were to be stuck in an awkward position, she'll twist and turn and get it freed.

Water break from all the crawling

Another thing that she's always doing is her bounce. She does it when she's sitting, when she's being carried, when she's happy, when she's excited... and it just makes you break out in a smile to see her doing her happy 'dance' like that.

Doing her bounce while crawling

Toothy Sophie

At 7 months, Sophie is beginning to show signs of teething.

Now a days she'll always have something in her mouth. If it's not a toy or her teether toy, it's her fingers or simply whatever that's within her reach.

She also had some symptoms of teething last week which included fever and diarrhea. I guess that's why they call it "growing pains".

Today I bought her the teething biscuits from Rusk. She seemed to enjoy it very much, especially since she gets to munch on something after her gums gets soothen from the biscuits. Sure beats biting on a teether toy which is tasteless.

I wonder when her first tooth will emerge. I reckon it will be soon... very very soon. And I heard that once her teeth starts to grow, her speech will improve too. So maybe I'll hear her call me Mama very soon too.