Ariel is 9 months old

Ariel's weight had dropped from 10kg to about 9.5kg but she looked taller. Well, maybe because she is more mobile now and a bit taller that there is no increase in her weight. Hopefully Mummy didn't have to hunt for the best weight loss products for her when she grew up.

Ariel is a very jovial person and also fierce. She would grasp her KorKor’s shirt if her KorKor irritated her and refused to let go. If she was angry with someone, she would turn her head away and refused to see eye to eye with that person.

Her breastmilk intake has dropped from 20 oz to about 16oz. How come? Her solid is improving a lot now.

Solid intake
Two weeks ago, Mummy bought broccoli, sweet potato and pumpkin. On Sunday night, Mummy steamed the food and PaPa helped to semi-blend the food because we didn’t want to make soo mushy food for Ariel (wanted her to learn to chew). Then PaPa placed the food into the covered ice cube container. Mummy was busy with Ariel who was quite ‘manja’ due to teething. Mummy learnt that it would be better to freeze all the fresh food since her intake was small portion to avoid all the fresh vegetable got spoilt/rotten. The nutrients would be well preserved when freeze as compare to keep in the fridge.

We introduce one cube of sweet potato, the increase to one cube of sweet potato and one cube of broccoli. She was adjusting well. Then we added millet cereal with sweet potato and broccoli. Last weekend, Ariel’s intake had increase a bit and even though she was slow in eating her food, Mummy got to be very very patient, but deep in Mummy’s heart, Mummy was pleased with her progress. PaPa and KorKor had been praising Ariel when she finished up her food.

Last night, Mummy introduced a bit of banana after feeding her millet+sweet potato. She loved it even though initially she was using her tongue to lick (did some testing first). Last nite also, Mummy steamed sweet potato and spinach to freeze. This time no blender because Mummy wanted her to learn to chew, so Mummy just cut smaller chunks for her to chew. This week, Ariel’s new taste would be spinach. Mummy also bought papaya and banana for Jeriel and Ariel. Papaya would be ripening much later. This week, new taste for Ariel would be banana, papaya and spinach. Mummy hoped Ariel would be able to adapt the new taste by this week, hopefully...

Mobility
She was moving non stop and everywhere. How she moved? Like an army crawling on the belly with 2 arms. Ariel would be on fours (legs and hands) but when moving time, back to belly and arms like worm. Last Sat, while KorKor was busy doing his work, Ariel crawled and was under the table disturbing KorKor. PaPa took out the gate and fixed at the kitchen entrance. Besides that, PaPa was busy vacuuming the floor for his Princess.

Outing
Outing with Ariel was and is always fun. We all enjoyed going out as family (four of us). Ariel would sleep in the carseat or the pram while we just going wherever we would want to go.