Growth spurt

Diana has undergone a sea-change this week. She started eating twice as much food at every meal three days ago and shows no signs of letting up. Maybe she’s finally decided it’s time to grow a little! Her eighth tooth is coming in on the bottom, so she’s drooling a lot more again, but she’s staying hydrated with her improved use of her sippy-cup. We’re both very proud of her, although Emily is most proud of her recent improvements in sleep habits! She has been truly sleeping “through the night” from her 6:30 bedtime until 6:30 or 7am without feeding, and even without waking and fussing in the night. Em still doesn’t know quite what to do with herself since she’s still waking up instinctively at 1 or 2 in the morning, but hopefully that will go away soon.

Since she’s eating so much more, we’ve been able to get her interested in rice cereal and more vegetables. She really liked holding and looking at broccoli, but she’s not quite sure what to do with it yet. It did make it in her mouth, but she mostly just enjoyed squeezing it until it broke apart. The spiral pasta and whole-wheat toast fared a little better, but they both also got squeezed a lot before they got eaten.

We just finished our fourth week of Indonesian language class, which we have been attending twice a week as a family. Our guru (teacher) says that Diana is a very serious student. We have learned several interesting things, such as: you don’t travel “by car,” you travel “up car”; there is no Indonesian word for “sweater”; you don’t “turn off” the light, you “kill” it; and that overalls are called “monkey pants.” One nice thing about learning Indonesian is that there is no verb conjugation. There are, however, many different ways to say the same thing – it sometimes even makes it hard for our teacher to remember which words she has taught us.