Sit, Crawl, Stand, Walk!

I havent been blogging for a week plus and today my #1 fan asked me "are you blogging today?" He knows everything that I'm going to blog so why does he seems so eagar for me to blog? So he explained "Because I want to publish the pictures that we have taken. But I let your blog to publish the pics first". So touching but chey, I thought he enjoyed my blog. After I gave him the 25cent look (aka sad look), he added "Of course I love reading your blog!". White lies? Dunno. But I like that answer anyway. Ha.

Time flies. 2 more days to Rachel's 9th month. My friends asked if I have plans for Rachel's 1st birthday. Hmm.. dont think I will have any big bash for her. She won't know anything so why the effort and money? We thought of going Japan in Sep/Oct period and take it as a birthday trip for her but its not going to happen now. Shawn just got news that he can't take leave from Aug-Oct because of a new project. What else can we do? Shall give it a serious thought when Rachel's 10 month?

Sit
She knew how to sit unsupported some time ago. And nowadays when she cries for us in the morning, we will find her in sitting position. She loves sitting up by herself. And good thing is that she loves high chair (because that would mean porridge or dvd time) so we dont need to drag the monstrous stroller to every eating place we go since high chair is usually available.

Me & Rachel in a high chair in House @ Dempsey

And the best seat so far? Sitting on the millionaire throne at Changi Airport T3 departure hall. What a nice chair to take pics in. We should buy one for our mini studio but that's way too huge. Oh yes, our studio will be ready tomorrow! Check us out at http://www.shapes.sg/. Website still in the midst of revamping.

Our Princess Rachel

Crawl
She has been doing push ups for a month and we thought she may just skip crawling after a few mothers told me that their kids went straight from push ups to walking! But seems like Rachel wants to crawl after all. She started sliding forward for a week or so by first bending her knees and then sliding her torso forward. Yesterday, we were taken by surprise when she crawled (properly)! So much so that we forgot to take video! Arghhh...

Stand
Surprisely, she could stand before she did the proper crawling. It was about 2 weeks back when my maid let her stand on her own, and she did for a few seconds. As usual, my mum forgot to tell me until my maid tried telling us yesterday in Bahasa and her self-invented sign language. Took me ages before I guessed it right. I definitely won't team up with my maid for the game 'charade'.

Rachel will also climb onto us or anything to get herself into standing position. With support, she can stand very long. Look how happy she is with her Little Tikes Walker. Standing at > 71cm (that's the height about 3 weeks back).


Walk
She doesnt know how to walk yet. But she showed good progress yesterday when she attemped a few steps with my mother-in-law supporting her underarm. I'm not very supportive of 'encouraging' them to walk. Why the rush? No prize for going first right? As long as they are progressing well against the motor development chart for baby, we are happy. Nevertheless, I won't stop the enthusiatic grandparents from 'encouraging' her.

Soon, we may have her running around, sweeping everything off the table tops and pulling every cloth she can reach. Just hope she won't pull Bessie's tail then. :)