Dinner at friends and Sofia trying to stand up

Sofia woke up at 6am babbling away, but then tried to go back to sleep. I was hoping for 7am since we’re going to dinner at Maja and Shane’s tonight at 4pm (dinner at 5pm).

I read books, and Mike took over so I could make breakfast as Sofia refused to be put down on the floor to play by herself. Then Mike left for work and Sofia and I had breakfast. Afterwards we played – I think it must be important with as much play mat time as possible now that’s she’s so close to crawling. I put her in the mat and after a bit of sitting and playing she puts both feet underneath her and hands in the floor so she’s on all fours. Then she tries to stand up!!! I wanted so to grab my phone and capture the moment, but I didn’t want her to fall on her face so I went on standby… and caught her when she fell. And just after that she rolled herself into the corner of the sofa and pushed with her feet so she got her knees under her and she started rocking back and forth (video to come).

I put her down for her morning nap and she was asleep by 9am and woke up at 10am again. I was kind of hoping for a longer nap. She started getting tired around 12pm again but I’m trying to push the times a bit, so I tried at 12.30. Her teeth we’re bothering her however and seemed to wake her when she was almost asleep so I went in to give her some pain relief and nursed her for a bit for it to take effect. By 1.30 she was asleep finally poor thing. Unfortunately she only slept for 40minutes…

So… I got her up and we played. After an hour I had run out of things to do with her. I felt like she was bored, but then again she was happy enough just sitting there chewing on her toys… Another 45min or so and Mike was home. Then we went to Maja and Shane’s place. Their boy Tian is such a cutie! It was a very nice dinner, but at the end little Sofia was super tired and easily cried. As soon as we got home we got her in the bath, then we got her in her sleeping bag and directly on the boob. It took a little while because she was so wired, but then she konked… When I put her to bed she barely registered that she got put down in the bed…

Here is a couple of videos of Sofia almost crawling and sitting_up.