First Foods

Janine is now 5.5 months old and she had her first taste of solids today! We were contemplating whether to start her on solids now, or wait till we arrive in Sydney on 2 July to start. She'll be 6 months and 2 days old when we reach Sydney, and by then we may be too busy settling down to bother about feeding her, so thought she might as well start now while in Singapore. Besides, she has been showing great interest in our food - drooling and opening her mouth whenever she sees us eat!

It was a successful first attempt at eating her rice cereal from a spoon! In fact, she was so excited she grabbed at the spoon and stuffed it into her mouth and chewed on the spoon! She also managed to swallow the rice cereal pretty well.

Our little girl is growing up fast! She's also 7kg already, and looking extremely well-fed (ie. chubby) despite her still regurgitating milk. She's also really strong and can almost crawl, and can stand for a few seconds with some support. Because of the fact that she keeps turning over and attempting to crawl, she is no longer able to sleep by herself when we put her down on the bed , as she ends up in an activity of flipping over and shaking her butt in an attempt to crawl.

To our dismay, Janine has started shedding hair since she turned 4 months old and she's still shedding hair till now (together with her mummy!). Her head is already looking quite shiny and I think it'll be even more bald as the days go by!

Janelle has been a really loving older sister and the 2 girls really enjoy each other's company. This is a really cute stage that the 2 girls are at, for Janine never fails to laugh and be tickled by Janelle's funny antics and peek-a-boo games, while Janelle loves to shower her little sis with cuddles and kisses.

For me, I shall attempt to update this blog more regularly (just realised that my last entry was 2 months ago!), especially since we'll be going away and people will want to know what's happening to us and our 2 girls.