As it turns out, maintaining a blog while having a baby is difficult, or at least more difficult than it was when I was confined to the couch during bed rest. It is especially hard to find the motivation to blog when I have the convenience of updating family and friends in short little blurbs via Facebook. What could be easier than quickly sitting down and writing out a short message about G's latest adventures? Easy-peasy. But coming up with things to actually write about in detail on my blog? Not so much. I don't know about you, but my favorite kind of blog tends to be one that is well thought out and has a little meat to it, so I tend to not bother with the short little quips that pop into my head. Because of that, also my lack of sleep and general lack of time (I'm pretty sure Husband wouldn't agree that taking time to blog should take priority over something like the mountain of laundry piling up in our room) I tend to neglect my blog which means you may have missed a few thing in little G-Man's life. So let's take a few minutes to update. If you know me in my Facebook life, or even better - in my real life, then this is probably going to be a bit repetitive for you. Oh well. You'll live.
Here we go... 9 Months!! What in the world?? How did we get here so fast? G-Man has officially spent more of his little life outside of me than he did inside. **tear** He's growing up so fast. We just got back from the pediatrician and these are his stats:
Weight - 17lbs 14oz (10th percentile) Skinny mini! The pediatrician says not to worry, that at this age it's quite common because they increase their activity and are burning a lot of calories. At this point he nurses every three hours during the day, has solids 3 times a day as well as snacks so the boy isn't in want of food.
Height - 28.5 inches His height seems to be tapering of a bit, at his 6-month appointment he was in the 96th percentile and now he down to the 50th or at least that's what the doctor's chart said. When we go to my mom's group he's one of the tallest babies there. He's also one of the youngest.
Head - 46.3cm A large melon just like his Daddy and Mama.
Things he's been up to lately:
Crawling crawling and more crawling! For a while there he was doing this crazy army crawl where he kind of just flailed around the room. I was starting to think he would never do a "normal" crawl but then one night while we were visiting the grandparents a couple of months ago, he just did it. Within the next couple of weeks he had a burst of developments, crawling on hands and knees, pulling up to standing, cruising around his play yard and crib, and standing on his own (he's only done this a couple of time and he can't stand for very long without collapsing).
Talking talking talking! Of course there are all of the normal baby babbles, the ones you have no idea what they mean, but then there are the real words too. In his current repertoire: Mama, Dada, Hi and maybe Bye-Bye. He loves to scream "Hi Dada!" when Husband gets home from work and periodically throughout the day he will say "Bye-bye Mama" not really sure what he's trying to tell me with that one. Then there is the swearing. Despite my best efforts, we haven't quite cut all the swearing out, although Husband's way worse than me! ;P The other day I was feeding G and he quite clearly said "damn" the "gah damn" and then just for good measure "damn" again. I guess we won't be winning parents of the year any time soon.
Teeth! He has four of them. The bottom two came in with relatively no problem. He did have a little (----------- WARNING --------- TMI ALERT!!! ----------) diarrhea which caused quite the diaper rash, but other than that there was minimal fussing. Then about a month or so later the top left one came in, again not a lot of problems, some runny nose issues and a low-grade fever but he got over it quickly. Then his top right tooth started to make an appearance and that hasn't gone as smoothly. Luckily the teething didn't start until after we had already done the sleep training (see previous post) otherwise we wouldn't have been able to do it. There has been a lot of screaming and fussyness. He wants to nurse constantly and chew on everything. For a while there the gums looked pretty raw and red, but I think it's mostly in now so the worst (of that tooth) is over.
Sleep - for details see my last post. We had yet another night of sleeping twelve hours straight. Woooooohoooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sharing - He just (within the last few days) started offering his toys and food to people. Mostly to Daddy, not so much to me.
Things he loves:
Sophie the giraffe - a teething toy
His activity table - he loves to stand next to it and push all the buttons, he also enjoys crawling under it, but he might cry if he feels trapped.
His lovies - one is a little mini-blanket with this dog head attached to the corner. Don't know how else to describe it. The other is his glow worm.
Books - He loves to be read to, to help turn the pages, try to sneak peaks at the next page before we're ready to turn them and of course he loves to chew on them.
Baths - he now sits up in the tub like a big boy and plays with his toys, he also loves to lie down and splash like a maniac.
Being tickled - his inner thighs, his tummy, his neck, his back - pretty much everywhere.
Food - Mum Mums, Yogurt melts, rice cakes, sweet potatoes, most fruits, chicken, pasta, avocado, but he's pretty much not a fan of veggies. We're working on that.
Milestones we're still waiting on:
Standing on his own for an extended period of time.
Walking
Clapping his hands - he loves it when other people clap but hasn't quite figured it out.
Waving - he kinda/sorta did it once, but he definitely doesn't do it regularly.
That's all I can think of for now. Hopefully it won't take several months for me to think of a new blog post. :)
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