mylène daily

Ten months already! As usual I started writing this post by copying the text of one month ago. Reading through it, I realise that it is about time to change the contents a bit, because in the course of time, some issues have lost their relevance and others have come up.

What's new?
Mylène learned quite a lot during the past month, especially regarding movement and coordination. She can now sit up all by herself. Consequently, she does not like lying on her belly anymore, but is sitting almost all the time when she is awake. Interestingsly, since she can sit up by herself, she can keep herself busy much longer than before.
Also, she can pull herself up and stand on her feet for a while. It is not very balanced yet: the legs are still very shaky, mostly due to the fact that she is usually tip-toeing.
Regarding crawling she did improve a bit, with better left-right coordination. She still refuses to crawl on hands and knees, though. Will she ever do this, or will she skip this phase and move on to walking immediately?
Mylène's imitating skills are improving a lot as well. In a previous post all her new imitation tricks can be seen.
And last but not least, Mylène seems to have developed her feelings for affection. When held by Shiqi, she moves away her head and holds on to Shiqi's neck strongly, if another person wants to take her. Also, she often comes up to us shortly to hold us or push her head against us, when she is crawling on the floor.

Favourite food: Hard to say because she still isn't a passionate eater, although I must say it is getting better. She does seem to have a preference for the "Hipp" bottles with rice, carrot and chicken for lunch. Regarding fruit porridge, she prefers the "Hipp" bottle with aplle, peach and rice. Furthermore, she still likes her HA-Milk based evening porridge.
Weight: She is gaining weight a bit. I think she weighs around 9,5kg now.
Length: We think she is getting taller, which is confirmed by people who haven't seen her for a while. She still wears clothes sized 74-80.
Language: Mylène can reproduce more sounds than before (like "Ooo" and "Iii") but does not speak in words yet. She even has forgotten the word "Daaag" ... papa is very disappointed ... mama isn't ....
Other: We think Mylène is sort of singing. At least, she is doing "la la la" in different tones when we sing for her. Wishful thinking??