Skip to main content

Nine Months!

Here we go again....another month gone and another month closer to one year old.
He seems to have grown very quickly this month. He is a happy, giggly, loving, little boy!
  • He now weighs 22 pounds 6 ounces (holy cow....so big!) and is 30.5 inches tall (above the 98 percentile for height). He is officially too heavy for his infant car seat and has been moved up to the larger car seat. We were hoping that would make him more content in the car but it has not....
  • He has started babbling a bit (very loudly). It doesn't seem to bother him where we are and will do it in the library, the store, anywhere!
  • He is a social butterfly. Anywhere, anytime, he draws strangers in with his big blue eyes and his super cute smile. It doesn't seem to take much :)
  • He is obsessed with his blanket. He snuggles, loves, bites, plays...whatever with it. We didn't realize how attached he was to it until it needed to be washed and the washer was broken! We quickly fixed it :)
  • I've said this over and over but he is in love with his sister!! Giggles all the time around her (I love it!). 
  • He has a few words he truly recognizes, milk being the most obvious. Be sure not to say that around him unless you have the bottle ready to go! He recognizes his sister's name and mom and dad. He can almost sign 'more' and thinks it is hilarious when he tries. 

  • He has moved very quickly from crawling to standing on everything and now when he lets go he can keep his balance for a couple seconds....it won't be long!
  • His iron level has shown to be a bit low (on the low side of normal) at his last appointment, which doesn't make a ton of sense based on the amount of formula he drinks, so he now takes iron everyday. Luckily he takes it very well. 
  • His eating has got a bit better since we reduced his milk intake this last week or so. He eats mostly finger foods and always seems to want whatever his sister has. 
We headed down to a local park to take a nice walk - tried to get some pictures but they weren't super successful :)



Helping with laundry while sister is at preschool 

I get about a half an hour of just Liam time before Callie wakes up in the morning....a great bonding time!


 We had a couple really nice fall days recently so we headed to a park to play (Liam napped while Callie played)



We also have had some rainy fall days which, after a couple days requires me to get out of the house, so we headed to a local gym for some open gym time to run, play and get our wiggles out. 
The trampoline and foam pit were a big hit

Liam was happy to get out of the stroller!

Here's how Liam entertains himself while I cook :)



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Rolling and Reading

Callie rolls ALL over the place!!! One of her favorite places to end up is her bookshelf. Look what I found! As a side note, it looks like one of our cats is finally accepting that Callie is part of the family (or atleast, she isn't going anywhere) and has become very tolerant of her. She lets Callie "pet" her and will even walk up to Callie (which, if you know this cat, is VERY unusual - there are some people who still have never seen her). The other day when I was getting Callie from her nap this was outside her door. Apparently the cat loves Callie enough to bring her toys.
1 comment
Read more

7 Months

This month seemed to have flown by just as quickly as all the others. It's crazy to think she has been part of our family for seven months already. We have had our first real battle (and are still battling) with a never ending cold. She has been a trooper though - although I wish that we could do more to help her. Here's what is new (things have moved very quickly this month): She is up on all fours. She seems to be taking after her cousin Clara, where she can crawl backwards but not yet forwards - which can be very frustrating as the toy she is trying to get to seems to just keep getting farther and farther away. After she learned to get up on all fours, she very quickly learned to go from all fours to sitting. We have yet to find any real foods that she will turn down, although green beans appears to be her favorite so far. When feeding her green beans she will lean forward VERY far and open her mouth as wide as can be just to get the next bite. We can't seem to get
Post a Comment
Read more

10 Months

So, I am a bit behind. It is officially the end of the school year and I am feeling a bit overwhelmed with learning the new job and the close of the school year. Much different from the classroom. When I took Callie in for her nine month appointment her pediatrician checked her ears (which looked totally fine) then made the comment - I don't mean to jinx you but has Callie had an ear infection yet? To which my response was no (she had a super mild one that they gave us medicine for just because we were getting on a plane to Pitt) - in my mind, my response was "no, but we have had everything else imaginable"! The newest thing: last Friday when Callie got up for the day, her eyes were swollen shut. Turns out she had pink eye which was no fun. Many rough nights later she seems to finally be getting back to her happy go lucky self. Here are the newest things about Callie: She continues to get quicker walking with a push toy. Her teachers love watching her outside at da
Post a Comment
Read more