This week has been another big week of changes. His crawling gets better and better everyday, and he is getting really fast too. He is getting more stable at walking around the furniture. His dismount from his standing position is getting really steady too. He is starting to take a new interest in his toys, and he's starting to play more with them rather than just chewing on them. We gave him some Cheerios this week, and he's starting to get the hang of eating them by chewing them up. I get nervous that he's going to choke, but thankfully his dad is standing by to reassure me, and step in if anything happens. He's starting to sound out words more and more. One day this week I thought he was trying to say 'dog'. He is also getting so BIG. Whenever someone asks how old he is, they are surprised at how big he is! He is already busting out of some of his 12 month clothes, and already fits in some of his 18 month clothes! We were somewhat surprised to find out that he is only in the 40th percentile for his weight (at 20 lbs. 3 oz.) and 35th percentile for his height (28 in). Although, maybe it's his head (18.5 in.) that makes him look so big, which is in the 88th percentile!
His questionnaire was for 10 months this time, so some of the communication and personal-social areas are not quite there yet, but he scored really high in the gross motor, fine motor and problem solving areas. The doctor says he's doing really well, and he advised to start feeding him more food, and less milk since he will be weaning off of formula and breast milk in a few months. They did a blood prick on his toe to check for anemia, and he is good. They also gave him a flu shot. The nurse put a band-aid on his toe, and when we were in the car I heard him gagging, I looked in the rear view mirror and he vomited. I pulled over to check on him and he threw up again! I called the Dr.'s office to ask them if that could be a reaction to the vaccine, and they said it was not. I decided to go to my families home to clean him up, and I found the band-aid in his car seat. I am thinking he tried to eat the band-aid and he choked on it. We won't be leaving band-aids on him for now on!
After I cleaned him up, I took him to Toys R Us, and got him a bunch of new toys. He was a super good boy this week!
Friday, September 19, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Liam is 9 Months (40 Weeks)
We think that Liam has made the most changes thus far in the past 2 weeks. He went from sitting up on his own a couple weeks ago, to learning how to crawl, to standing and walking along the furniture! He is now into everything! And he also has decided that his jumparoo is boring, and wants to be out and exploring around the house. The main floor is not very baby friendly, so we are grateful we have a bonus room upstairs that we can shut the door and let him play and explore with out too much worry.
His taste buds are getting used to fruit because he doesn't make as many funny faces. We have been getting fresh local peaches, and we made him some baby food, but he also likes to take a bite of our peaches when we are eating them. He practically attacks the peaches, and tries to get as much in his mouth as he can...we have to be careful he doesn't take too much though.
He's starting to get his little boy face too, although he still has cute kissable chubby cheeks. His new little boy face also comes with 2 more teeth coming in on top and also his little boy personality that is forming. He is a lot more sensitive to sounds and tones. If something is loud or scary, or if we have a certain tone in our voice he can sense it and his lip will start to quiver and he'll cry. He often will look to us for reassurance.
The other milestone that he had this week that made our hearts soar was he started to sign. I was feeding him his milk a few days ago, and he was moving his fist, and I thought it was a new thing he was doing randomly, until I realized that it was the sign for milk!! Mike started doing the sign again, and then Liam did it back. He has done it several times since, and now we are excited to start teaching him more signs.
Liam LOVES our dogs, and the dogs love him too, especially Gretchen. We were most concerned about Gretchen because she doesn't do well with strangers, but she has been nothing but sweet with Liam from day 1. Gretchen likes to keep watch from our bonus room window, which is low to the floor and Liam likes to use the window sill as a walking perch, so they enjoy looking outside together from that window. He also found Gretchen's tags quite interesting. He will point and grab her tag and try to put her collar in his mouth, and she will just lick him silly. They are sooo cute together!!
His taste buds are getting used to fruit because he doesn't make as many funny faces. We have been getting fresh local peaches, and we made him some baby food, but he also likes to take a bite of our peaches when we are eating them. He practically attacks the peaches, and tries to get as much in his mouth as he can...we have to be careful he doesn't take too much though.
He's starting to get his little boy face too, although he still has cute kissable chubby cheeks. His new little boy face also comes with 2 more teeth coming in on top and also his little boy personality that is forming. He is a lot more sensitive to sounds and tones. If something is loud or scary, or if we have a certain tone in our voice he can sense it and his lip will start to quiver and he'll cry. He often will look to us for reassurance.
The other milestone that he had this week that made our hearts soar was he started to sign. I was feeding him his milk a few days ago, and he was moving his fist, and I thought it was a new thing he was doing randomly, until I realized that it was the sign for milk!! Mike started doing the sign again, and then Liam did it back. He has done it several times since, and now we are excited to start teaching him more signs.
Liam LOVES our dogs, and the dogs love him too, especially Gretchen. We were most concerned about Gretchen because she doesn't do well with strangers, but she has been nothing but sweet with Liam from day 1. Gretchen likes to keep watch from our bonus room window, which is low to the floor and Liam likes to use the window sill as a walking perch, so they enjoy looking outside together from that window. He also found Gretchen's tags quite interesting. He will point and grab her tag and try to put her collar in his mouth, and she will just lick him silly. They are sooo cute together!!
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