Check ups

Yesterday Little Dude had his first check up. As I previously posted, he gained 2 oz since his hospital discharge putting him at 6 lbs 8.5 oz. He checked out great and we take him back for his 10 day check up next week.

Little Lady had her check up today:

* Weight: 23 lbs 2 oz  {50%}
* Length: 31.5 in        {75%}
* Head: 17.75 in         {25%}

She is advanced in all of her development for communication, fine motor skills, language, etc. And Dr. G couldn't get over how busy she was! {Tell me about it...} After Little Lady's exam Dr. G let her go through her box with all of her tools and she was impressed with how Little Lady spent so much time studying, she is a thinker no doubt.

Here are both of my 'littles' at their appointments:

In other exciting news, jr lost his umbilical cord last night so he had his first bath today! {Pictures soon to come.}

9 month check-up

Today was my check up at the Dr's office, since I'm 9 months now!

Here's me with dada waiting for the Dr. They made me wear only a diaper so dada was keeping me warm with my blankie!

Mama forgot to post about my milestone last Sunday so I thought I'd help her out! She is busy growing my lil brother or sister in her 'tummy', you know.

Lately, I've been exploring and climbing and opening and digging and pulling and dragging pretty much anything I can find or get my hands on.

Mama says "No no" a lot and I think she is trying to hide or keep me away from the really good stuff... cause she always says it and then when I go ahead and do it anyway she comes over and picks me up and puts me on the complete opposite side of the room. So then I have to crawl all the way back over to find out what she's hiding! It's the game we play pretty much all day long!

By the end of the day I'm pretty pooped out and ready to go to bed.

I eat three meals a day just like mama and dada do. I still have a bottle in between. Although mama keeps putting my milk in this weird thing with handles on the side. The milk comes out the top part and I'm still trying to figure out what she expects me to do with it. She looks a little frustrated when I get sick of it and throw it on the ground. But then she gives my my "baba" and we are both happy again.

I've got two teeth on the bottom now and the doc said today that the top two are not far behind. I'm sure hoping they don't hurt like these others did but even if they do, mama is nice to cuddle me and hold me any time I want her to. I think she loves me a lot.

I've been toying with the idea of trying this walking thing. I like to pull myself up on the furniture so I can see better whats going on around me and then I'll hang on and walk along it. I can even stand up from sitting with out holding on, but usually I get a little worried by the time I'm up and so I sit right back down.

For now I can get around pretty quick on my hands, one knee and then one foot. At least mama and dada say I'm fast!

So here's my stats from the Dr's office today:

Weight: 20.1 lbs (75%)

Height: 29 in (90%)

So that's me at 9 months. I'm going to go see what I can get into ;)

        Evalyn

Well Baby Visit and pictures

We got pictures taken yesterday by E's Auntie Rachael. She did such a great job taking pictures when E was just a week or so old, we decided that she should do them again! We had a blast :)

'Ma ma and me'

I love her 'What guys?' pose in this picture.

Da da teaching E how the toy lights up!

She may be a mini Stud Muffin, but she is looking more like ma ma as a baby in this one!

'Da da can always make me laugh!'

Teething much?! Her mouth has become a broken faucet!

My necklace has become one of E's favorite things to play with...

But this was her favorite toy by far! The little balls inside would slide down and sound like rain on a window pane.

Love this face. :)

So today was E's well baby visit! Stud Muffin and I were making guesses on how much we think she weighs. And we decided whoever gets the closest would get to sleep ALL night on Friday night {right now we do shifts cause E is still waking up several times and has to be helped back to sleep... she is doing MUCH better though!}.

My guess: 18 lbs 8 oz

Stud Muffin: 19 lbs 4 oz

So who won?

Today Cupcake weighed in at.... 18 lbs even!! Here are all her stats:

Weight: 18 lbs {85 percentile}

Height: 27 in {90 percentile}

She is our big girl :) Happy and healthy!

So Dr G said that she is progressing just great! She could see that E is a 'talker', she talked to the Dr, the mural of dogs on the wall... everything! She was very curious and just taking everything in. When the Dr was listening to her heart and looking in her eyes, ears and mouth she just laid back and took it all like a champ! {She has her da da's laid back personality!}

The only issues I talked to the Dr about was her sleeping {she said to just keep on the track we are on, helping her to fall asleep on her own} and her eating solids.

We started her on cereal and then moved on to sweet potatoes and then, recently, to peas. She was doing great, all up to the peas...Ok so we went back to what she liked, sweet potatoes. No go... so we went back to cereal. She wouldn't have any of it! I was at a loss. So Dr G suggested, since E has excellent neck control and she is able to sit up by herself pretty well, to give her more whole food that are softened and that she can gum. She maybe she just doesn't like the puree type foods, but will go straight to the soft solids... I'm going to give it a try!

She is definitely teething as well, she showed me how her gums are quite swollen but no tooth just yet. Who knows, could be here any day now.

And on the last note, I just happened to mention to the Dr as we were packing up and leaving that E has started saying 'Ma ma ma' and 'Da da da', even though she isn't necessarily directing it at us. She was surprised and said that babies don't normally develop that until closer to 9 months! She said how bright she thought E was and she actually didn't want to leave the room cause she said she wanted to see what E would do next, she just loves her.

I do too ;) After the Dr office we went to Gymboree {love that store!} and used our 'Gym Bucks' that we earned last month! And then to Barnes and Noble to get a couple of new books for my little smart baby to start reading ; p