During Holly's first few years with us I sporadically recorded her small achievements ('yardstones' as opposed to 'milestones'). Here they are for posterity...
| Date Recorded | Yardstone |
|---|---|
| 27/07/2005 | Swatting things hanging from her (homemade) play gym |
| 27/07/2005 | Coordinated grabbing of objects held out for her left and right hands (she's a lefty!) |
| 27/07/2005 | Passing her Plunket health check with flying colours: weight 5.5kg (mostly in her cheeks); length 60.5cm; head circumference 38.9cm; number of chins = 2 |
| 30/07/2005 | Happily chatting to herself in the wee small hours of the morning |
| 04/08/2005 | 2-way conversations centred on using the word "hoo" |
| 09/08/2005 | Fitting her whole fist inside her mouth |
| 16/08/2005 | Rolling from her tummy onto her back |
| 23/08/2005 | Passing her Plunket health check with flying colours: weight 6.24kg; length 63.2cm; head circumference 40.5cm; chance of sinking in the bath given current cheek volume 0% |
| 29/08/2005 | Singing songs to her Dad (previously reserved for Mums only) |
| 06/09/2005 | Discovering just how soothing sucking one's thumb is (her parents are overjoyed - not) ;-) |
| 12/09/2005 | Making a noise like a coffee machine (she's sooo urbane) |
| 19/09/2005 | Laughing with sound (previously silent laughing only) |
| 04/10/2005 | Catching both feet with her hands (a major milestone, by all accounts) |
| 07/10/2005 | Passing her Plunket health check with flying colours: weight 6.98kg; length 65.5cm; head circumference 41.0cm; top of her class at "grasping both feet with both hands" and singing; bottom of her class at rolling (remedial rolling lessons required) |
| 24/10/2005 | Happily, avidly even, eating her first 'solid' food - organic baby rice |
| 03/11/2005 | Expanding her diet to include carrot (medium-good), kumura (medium) and pumpkin (face still turned inside-out several hours later) |
| 16/11/2005 | Blowing kisses |
| 16/11/2005 | Discovering the texture of things by scratching them |
| 18/11/2005 | Her very first cold |
| 28/11/2005 | Sitting unassisted (for a while, anyway) |
| 28/11/2005 | Passing her Plunket health check with flying colours: weight 7.78kg; length 69.0cm; head circumference 42.2cm |
| 11/01/2006 | Drinking unassisted out of her sippy cup |
| 16/01/2006 | Her very first paddle in the sea (which she adored!) |
| 26/02/2006 | Getting her first tooth (bottom, right) |
| 07/03/2006 | Rolling in both directions |
| 07/03/2006 | Waving |
| 07/03/2006 | Picture recognition ("where's the baby?") |
| 22/03/2006 | Clapping, singing and dancing all at the same time (i.e. more able than her father) |
| 24/03/2006 | Getting her second tooth (bottom, left) |
| 08/04/2006 | (Commando-style) crawling |
| 13/04/2006 | Getting her third tooth (top, right) |
| 17/04/2006 | Doing the actions for 'pop goes the weasel' |
| 17/04/2006 | The consonants "d", "g", "c" and "cl" resulting in some good attempts at the words "dog" and "clock" |
| 15/05/2006 | Getting her fourth tooth (top, left) |
| 18/05/2006 | Getting her fifth tooth |
| 02/06/2006 | Getting her sixth tooth |
| 21/06/2006 | Having her first hair cut |
| 26/07/2006 | Getting her seventh tooth |
| 22/08/2006 | Crawling on all fours |
| 22/08/2006 | Being able to do the actions for "I'm a little teapot" (very cute) |
| 22/08/2006 | Blowing bubbles in swimming class |
| 26/08/2006 | Getting her eighth tooth |
| 06/09/2006 | Her first swim with water-wings (which she took to like a duck to...) |
| 09/09/2006 | Eating her first takeaway curry (dahl, butter chicken and naan bread) - which she scrummed down |
| 12/09/2006 | Walking behind her trolley from one end of the hall to the other |
| 29/09/2006 | Counting to four (actually, "1", "2", "3", "4", "9") - especially useful if we're counting bits of tomato (our all-time favourite food) |
| 05/11/2006 | Lying (question "Is that a pooey nappy I can smell?", reply "No, no, no") and stalling for time ("Time for bed, Holly", reply "Nappy, pooey", all evidence to the contrary) |
| 06/11/2006 | Unassisted standing up and walking (with a huge grin on our face) |
| 28/11/2006 | Perfect pronunciation of 'bon jour', 'merci' and 'au revoir' (in preparation for our trip to France next year) |
| 17/12/2006 | Counting from one to ten (without any help) and reciting the alphabet (with some minor assistance to get past 'S') |
| 18/12/2006 | Feeding herself stew with her Miffy spoon |
| 17/12/2006 | Rhyming - in fact we're having difficulty getting her to stop rhyming everything |
| 29/12/2006 | Being able to locate New Zealand and Ireland on any World map. She has also added "s'il vous plait" to her French vocab. - her geography and foreign language knowledge now equals, or betters, that of her father |
| 14/03/2007 | Being able to cite 'gurgle' and 'sizzle' as examples of onomatopoeia (I'm pretty sure she doesn't understand the concept, but it sounds great when people overhear her) |
| 04/05/2007 | The ubiquitous use of the phrase "want to [insert verb here] own girl self" |
| 01/07/2007 | Announcing "I can't eat it - it's Daddy's" when faced with food she doesn't want to eat |
| 01/07/2007 | Asking "where do Cicadas go in winter - a Cicada nest?" |
| 19/07/2007 | Going to the toilet "own girl self" - no potty for this girl |
| 10/09/2007 | Lots of "what does... mean?"-style questions |
| 14/10/2007 | Going for a walk to the shops with big girl nickers on (complete with a wee behind a bush on the way) |
| 20/12/2007 | Learning to say 'antidisestablishmentarianism' as her latest party trick |
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