The Yung Family Blog

9 months....

Monday, July 16. 2007

Mackenzie received a clean bill of health for 9 month check up. She now weighs 19 lbs and at the 55 percentile and 29.5 inches in length and at 95 percentile in length. She dropped in the weight but made up for it in height. That and the fact that she's so mobile now, she's leaned up and thinned out. All she wants to do now is crawl if she can and walk with help. As Darren mentioned she's furniture cruising and pulling herself up on anything that will hold her weight. She's doesn't sit still for very long, usually the longest she'll sit is when she's in her high chair or booster seat and there it's only because she's eating.

She's also understanding a lot. She can clap her hands when you ask her to, in mandarin though as that's what's she's learning, she can give a kiss and say hi and bye by waving her hand. Sometimes she'll put her hands together to say grace before eating. Mackenzie knows when we go out and although I go without her, she's still really good about it and doesn't cry. She may make a noise indicating but not cry. Mackenzie can also recognize family members.

My daughter is a ham. She loves the camera. When I hold her and Darren has the camera, she'll lean in cheek to cheek with me. She poses. She'll smile for the camera and make a funny face when you say cheeze. She loves playing with people. Everywhere we go if someone pays attention to her, she'll respond by smiling or waving back.

Posted by Irene Yung in Family Life at 02:38 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

Morning Routines

Thursday, July 12. 2007

Mackenzie has her morning routine. We're fortunate in that she's a good sleeper - she's down at around 8pm and doesn't get up until around 7am or so. When she wakes up, she's usually just speaking to herself making baby noises. Only once-in-a-while does she wake us up with her crying.

So when she gets up, I go get her out of her crib and bring her over to our bed for a little snuggle and play time. My Marvin monkey doll that Katriana gave to me for my birthday is one of her favourite toys. She kisses that doll more than she kisses us! I put her in bed between the two of us and pull over Marvin for her to play with. Once she gets bored with Marvin (only takes a minute or two), she wants to go mobile. Now that she's been crawling for a month, she wants to move! She's also learned to pull herself up into a standing position and can furniture cruise. Of course, there's no room to "furniture cruise" in our bed, however she's developed a new game called "computer crash fall".

When Mackenzie was learning to sit, whenever she fell over, I said "Mackenzie computer crash!" and then "reboot" when I put her back up. She never cried when she fell over.

Now that she can pull herself up, she entertain herself by crawling up to the headboard of our bed, and using that to help her get into a standing position. From there, she'll bang on the metal frame, or bang her hand on the wall. Then she'll get daring. She knows the bed is "soft" because whenever I bring her to bed, I usually give her a light toss onto the bed on her back. When Mackenzie is in her standing position holding onto the frame, she'll let go of one hand, and then eventually let go of the other hand, falling backwards onto her butt and then onto her back on the bed. Then she'll roll over to her tummy, crawl back to the headboard and repeat the process! Meanwhile, Irene and I are trying to catch a few more winks of sleep.

LaterZ!
Darren!!

Posted by Darren Yung in Family Life at 14:59 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Day 2 of holidays

Wednesday, July 4. 2007

YEAH! Day 2 of holidays. I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while. It isn't because things have been busy - more like I've been LAZY!

So what has happened since the last post that Reen made at the end of May? Well, as you know, Mackenzie is now crawling. She's good at crawling now - textbook crawling. She's also started to furniture cruise. She can pull herself up and walk along the edge. She likes to knock down her stacking cups. She now has 3.2 teeth - a second top tooth is starting to come out!

She's learned to fall asleep on her own too without much of a fuss. We do her bedtime routine to get her ready for bed, and then put her in her crib with her music playing. She rolls onto her tummy and off to bed she goes, asleep until about 7am or so

I'm definetly enjoying my holidays. I don't have to worry about rushing off @ 7am in the mornings to go catch my bus. Mackenzie gets some extra snuggle time in the morning on big bed.

Today, she had her morning milk in our bedroom. She fell asleep in bed and Reen wanted to take her to her crib. Usually Mackenzie's naps are only about 30 minutes long. Today it was nearly two hours long! I napped along side her in our bed. She woke at about 12:20 all smiley and happy!

Well, that's about it. Here's a picture for everyone to enjoy of Mackenzie and me!