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18 pounds, 12 ounces at the pediatrician today. It's up 5 ounces from the last visit ten days ago, but seems less than what she should be. I think the cold really set her back in terms of weight.

This hasn't been so much a month of new skills as honing old skills and preparing to develop new ones. She could sit up before, but now she can sit up without collapsing as long as she wants, as well as leeaannning in all directions to get toys she wants without falling over.

She could roll over before, but now she uses it as a means of locomotion, usually to get at our laptop power cords or cheekily pull out the power cord on my pump (I try to explain to her that this maneuver is particularly counter to her interests, but she just grins at me).

She was creeping a bit before, and now, well, she's creeping a lot. Often towards the cats.

Her hands were everywhere before and now - well, I don't think she could possibly have gotten any grabbier. But the pincer grip is progressing nicely and she's spending a lot more time exploring things with her index finger. I would like to help her practice, but pincer grip is best used on small objects and since anything she grabs goes into her mouth, that will have to wait until the introduction of finger foods. Clapping is almost certainly right around the corner - she spends tons of time hitting objects together, and it's fairly clear she has the physical skills to clap, she just lacks the cognitive impetus to do it.

She had two teeth before, but now I can feel the points of five upper teeth starting to come through.

She's been eating solids for three months, but for some reason, a switch flipped in her brain three days ago and when before it took work to get her to finish two ounces of vegetables, she's now polishing off four ounces at a time and looking around for more.

Actually, it's not just an increase in solids. She's now taking 95% of her food during the day, which means much better sleep at night, with maybe one wakeup to eat. I find this simultaneously wonderful and unnerving. Tuesday morning, I had to get up at 7:30 and check on her to make sure the monitor was still working. It's not quite sleeping through the night yet, but it is going more than three hours without waking for food, which is just aces in my book.

She's on the cusp of so many things - sitting herself up, crawling, eating real food, pulling up to stand and walking are all coming in the next few months. Once she has those down, she'll have moved out of babyhood into toddlerhood. I'm constantly torn between anticipating what's to come and desperately wanting to slow her down so she stays my baby a while longer.

Updated pictures, as usual, are here.

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