Fire! Fire!

India and Mia in training to join the fire service when they grow up.

Oscar the Grouch

Here's a photo of Mia doing her best Oscar the Grouch impression!

8 Months old!

Mia was 8 months old on Monday so we took some photos to commemorate the occasion. As you can see she is really enjoying playing with the two balls that her grandpa gave her at the moment. Oh and Bruce is still her favourite thing ever!

NCT Christmas gathering

We had a christmas gathering with our NCT gang at Amy and Stuarts today. The babies all posed together, it's amazing to see how much they've grown and how different all their personalities are.

Pincer Grip continued

Grandpa wanted some photographic evidence of the pincer grip. I managed to get a couple of pics at lunchtime today, it's difficult because Mia swipes the food so quickly. It's very clever though because it means that she is now developmentally ready to eat smaller food and she is certainly interested in it, she is much less interested in the larger pieces of food now.


Here's some info about the pincer grip that i found online:
Using the thumb and forefinger to pick up things like peas or Cheerios — a.k.a. the pincer grasp — is a tiny, yet mighty, movement. For early childhood experts, the pincer grasp marks a momentous developmental milestone, showing that a baby's brain, muscles, and nervous system are becoming highly synchronized and capable of increasingly sophisticated coordination.

"The pincer grasp will eventually allow a child to button a shirt, use a pencil, play the violin," says Tanya Remer Altmann, M.D., a clinical instructor in pediatrics at UCLA. "But [even] when it first emerges, typically between 8 and 12 months, it opens up a whole new world for a baby to explore." With thumb and forefinger working together, blocks can be stacked, not just whacked; bits of food can be picked up and eaten without help; and (the bad news) coins can be pried off the floor and swallowed." http://wondertime.go.com/learning/article/get-a-grip-pincer-grasp.html

Pincer grip and the tooth

Well we have a pincer grip. This is a rather exciting development in the baby-led weaning world as it means that Mia can now pick up little things like peas and raisins between her thumb and finger. She demonstrated it today picking up some raisins from the yummy carrot, apple and raisin muffins that I made for her. She scoffed loads of them. And then this evening she was really showing it off eating lots of macaroni cheese.
You can see her tooth really clearly now. Think there might be more on the way soon.
Also she seems to have picked up my inability to keep my eyes open when a camera flashes! Hope it's just another phase!