9 Months Old

*Weight: 21 lbs. 6 oz (70th percentile) I have been following Nick’s weight as compared to my weight at his age with my baby book. We have been very similar until now. I weighed 9 lb 8.5 oz at birth and he weighed 9lb 6.3 oz. At 9 months I only weighed 19 lbs.!! I weighed 21 lbs at 1 year which Nick has already passed! Geez! Big boy! But he is healthy and that is all that matters! *Length: 28 inches (50th percentile) *Head Circumference: 46 cm (75th percentile) *Schedule: 6am-8am-ish: Nurse, 3T Rice Cereal or Oatmeal, Fruit 10:30-12:00-ish: Bottle (5oz-6oz)/Nurse, 3T Rice Cereal, Fruit or Vegetable 2-3pm-ish: Bottle (5oz)/Nurse (Sometimes doesn’t drink this one) 5:00-ish: Nurse, Container of Stage 3 dinner w/meat 7:30-8pm: Nurse *Sleep: 8pm till 6-6:30am *Napping: 2 naps, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, usually about 8:30-9am and 2pm. Nick sleeps between 1-2 hours. Usually in Gramma or Giggi’s arms!! Nick does not like to nap in the crib. *Spitting up: Switching to Prilosec (2.5 mL twice a day), we are going to try this for a month and see if it helps, if not, we are going back to Zantac. I am still hoping that he will grow out of this. In my baby book my mom wrote at 9 months: still spitting up! So hopefully around 1 year we will see this go away. *Cruising: Walking holding on to furniture and standing for a few seconds unassisted. *Clothes: 12 months and some 18 months *Diapers: Size 3 *Still LOVES paci and he can take it out and put it in all on his own. *Teeth: 7 total, 4 on top and 3 on the bottom (3 coming in) *Eczema: Trying a new cream, Tropazone. It is expensive but we are hoping it will do the trick. The doctor assured us that it is creamy rather than greasy like Aquaphor. *Lovies: Nick loves his Snoopy and purple elephant, and his dog named Blue at Gramma’s house *Food: Loves feeding himself, Nick wants everything Mommy and Daddy are eating. Doctor says begin modified table food. Nick likes everything we give him, recently he tried avocado, refried beans, and STRAWBERRIES!! Even though they made such a mess!! *Reading: Loves to be read to. Getting to the point where he likes to try to turn the pages, especially with his board books. *Immunizations: NONE!! YAY!! Mommy was very excited about his! However, at his 12 month appointment he has to have a finger prick and FOUR shots. *Games: Loves playing peek-a-boo, especially with Grandpa and his hat. Daddy even discovered he can play peek-a-boo himself when he was getting his PJs on one night. *Disposition: Nick is a HAPPY baby! Always laughing and smiling! *Mommy’s Milk: I did not pump during the middle of the night for the first time since I had mastitis when Nick was 2 weeks old on April 25, 2012!!! I wish I could say I slept like a baby and didn’t wake up once! Not so much! Maybe I will one day be able to sleep through the night again, when Nick goes off to college. This pump at 1-2am, first provided security that I would not get mastitis again (although I did), then it provided extra milk for his rice cereal. However, anyone that knows me knows just how much I have in the freezer. Now that Nick is 9-months I feel like I can back off the pumping and start to use my freezer stash. I just wanted to make sure we would make it to 1 year with Mommy’s milk!

8 Months Old

8th month stats:
*Weight: ~23lb.
*Schedule:
6am-8am-ish: Nurse, 3T Rice Cereal or Oatmeal, Fruit
10:30-12:00-ish: Bottle (5oz)/Nurse, 3T Rice Cereal, Fruit or Vegetable
2-3pm-ish: Bottle (5oz)/Nurse (Sometimes doesn’t drink this one)
5:30-ish: Nurse, Container of Stage 2 meat, Vegetable
7-8pm: Nurse
*Sleep: 7-9pm till 6-8am
*Spitting up: Still on Zantac (2mL twice a day, better sometimes. We are hoping it will get better as he gets older.
*Crawling: EVERYWHERE 3/14/2012
*Pulling up to standing, had to drop crib down. Also can transfer from couch to coffee table standing.
*Clothes: 12 months and some 18 months
*Diapers: Size 3
*Still LOVES paci and he can take it out and put it in all on his own.
*Teeth: 6 total, 4 on top and 2 on the bottom
*Eczema: Still using Aquaphor and sometimes Aveno baby for Eczema cream
*Lovies: Nick loves his Snoopy and purple elephant, and his dog named Blue at Gramma’s house
*Food: Loves feeding himself stars/puffs. Eating small pieces of table food, like banana’s and peas/beans. Even pasta cut into small bits.
*Reading: Loves to be read to. Getting to the point where he can patiently sit through an entire Curious George book.
*Swim Lessons: Nick has been taking Parent and Me swim lessons at the Greenville Aquatics Center with his friend Jonah Bulluck every Tuesday and Thursday night in March. He is doing great with it and loves the water. So far he has learned to kick on his tummy, kick on his back, slide in from the side and reach for a ball/toy. He is definitely a work in progress but I think it is good for him to be exposed to the water.

7 Months Old

7 Month Stats:
*Weight: Between 19 and 20 lbs.
*Schedule:
6am-8amish: Breakfast: Nurse, 1/3 cup Rice Cereal or Oatmeal, Stage 2 Fruit
10:30-12ish: Lunch: 5 oz. bottle, 1/3 cup Rice Cereal, Stage 2 Vegetable
2-3ish: 5 oz. Snack: 5oz. bottle
5-5:30ish: Dinner: Nurse, Stage 2 Meat, Stage 2 Vegetable
7:30-9ish: Bedtime Snack, Nurse, Trying to get this feeding in before he falls asleep, we had been waking him up at 9 and doing it.
*Nick prefers eating to drinking most of the time, and that tears Mommy's nerves up.
*Sleep: 7pm-6am, We are trying to transition to staying up a little later.
*Spitting Up: Still on Zantac, sometimes worse than others.
*Crawling: Trying as hard as he can. He gets up on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth. We are trying to enjoy our last few days before he becomes mobile and into EVERYTHING! Nick can 'pull up' and go from sitting to standing.
*Clothes: Mostly 12 months, some 6-9 months
*Diapers: Size 2, soon transitioning to size 3
*Paci: LOVES his paci or pipe as we call it. He is getting really good at putting it in his mouth on his own. In the carseat he will put it in a go to sleep on his own.
*Eczema: Flairs up really bad sometimes, but we are trying to keep it under control with Aquaphor 3 times a day and prescription cream as needed.
*Lovies: Snoopy, Blue doggie at Gramma's, purple elephant (Paul and I call it the EMERGENCY elephant, because it can make him happy most of the time.)
*Loves: Celery, biter biscuits, and STARS
*Teeth: Top left tooth is peeking through.
*Nick has recently started preferring certain people and holding his arms out when he wants to go to someone other than who is holding him.
*Going backwards in the walker.
*Loves: to jump up and down in the Jumperoo, doing exercises with Grandpa Ed, watching Tucker and Zoe at Giggi and Gpa Steve's house, rubbing someone's hands, having someone rub his head/face, watching Abby, getting someone's 'chicken'/have them get his, playing peek-a-boo, play/pulling hair especially Gramma's curly hair
*First ECU Baseball Game: 2/17/12

6 Months Old

6th months stats:
*Weight: 17 lb. 14.5 oz, 50th percentile
*Height: 26 ¾ inches long, 65 percentile
*Head Circumference: ** inches, 50 percentile
*New Schedule:
6am-8am-ish: Nurse, 3T Rice Cereal or Oatmeal, Fruit
10:30-12:00-ish: Bottle (5oz)/Nurse, 3T Rice Cereal, Fruit or Vegetable
2-3pm-ish: Bottle (5oz)/Nurse
5:30-ish: Nurse, Container of Stage 2 meat, Vegetable
8-9pmish: Dream Feed, Nurse
*Sleep: 7-9pm till 6-8am
*Spitting up: Still on Zantac, better sometimes. We are hoping it will get better as he gets older.
*Sitting up unassisted, 12/28/11
*Rolling to get to things, wants to crawl really bad, but hasn’t quite figured it out. He is trying to pulling knees under him when on stomach, and sometimes lifting up on toes on tummy.
*Clothes: 6-9 months and 12 months
*Still LOVES paci and he can take it out and put it in all on his own.
*Teeth: Bottom 2 are completely in, we are expecting the top 2 any day now.
*Fighting sleep: Sometimes we are having trouble with Nick fighting sleep, being so tired but not wanting to give in. So he pulls his paci out and blows raspberries. Last Friday night, 1/20/12, Nick ‘cried it out’ for the first time in his crib, took 17 minutes.
*Immunizations: At Nick’s 6th month appointment, he got 4 shots and the oral vaccine for stomach virus.
*Eczema: Really started to ‘flair’ up because of the winter months. We are doing aquaphor all over, 3 times a day. I really hope he will grow out of this.
*Lovies: Nick loves his Snoopy and purple elephant.
*Sitting in high chair at meal time like a big boy! Loves biter biscuits and fruit or a breastmilk cub in the mesh teether.

100th POST- 100 things I'm thankful for in 2011

So I started typing this post earlier in the week and got almost done with my 100 things I'm thankful for in 2011 and lost it! :( Bummer! I started doing it again and decided against it! There are so many wonderful things and people I didn't want to do it and leave anyone out! So just a few 'things' I'm thankful for:
disposible diapers, disposible bibs, moby wrap, pacifiers, pacifier clips, bumbo, boppy, and pre-light Christmas trees.

I cannot believe I have blogged 100 posts! Time has flown by since my sweet boy was born and I have not done the best job about keeping my blog updated. I will try to do better in 2012.

We have been so blessed in 2011 and I look forward to 2012 to see what is in store for our little family of 3!

Happy New Year!
Kim

5 Months Old/ 1st Christmas

5 Month Stats:
*Between 17 and 18 lbs
*New Schedule:
6-7:30ish AM- Nurse
10:30-11ishAM- Rice Cereal/Nurse or Bottle (5 or 6 oz)
1-2ish PM- Vegetable/ Nurse or Bottle (5 or 6 oz)
5-6ish PM- Vegetable, Rice Cereal/ Nurse
9PM- Nurse
*Sleep 7:30 or 8 to 6 or 7:30, usually 3 or 4 naps during the day
*Nick cycle: Eat, Play, Sleep, repeat
*Still spitting up with burps every feeding! LOTS! The food has not helped, we have started Zantac twice a day.
*Pulling knees up under him when on stomach.
*Very close to sitting up assisted. Can sit for a few seconds before falling over.
*Wearing mostly 6-9 months, and footy PJ's size 12 months
*Bottom two teeth are coming through!
*Starting to prefer certain people at certain times. When I'm sleepy wants his Mommy over Daddy!
*Still loves paci, especially when sleepy.

4 Months Old

4 Month Stats:
*15 lbs. 15.5 oz 75th percentile
*25 inches long 50th percentile
*Head Circumference 50th percentil
*Nursing every 3 hours, 15 minutes on each side, 5 oz with bottle (6am, 9am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm, 9pm) Rice Cereal with 9am feeding and 6pm feeding.
*Still sleeping 10PM to 6AM on most nights, some nights more, some nights less! If he wakes up early he will usually go right back to sleep in the swing in our room.
*Nick cycle: Eat, Play, Sleep, repeat
*Still spitting up with burps every feeding! LOTS! We are hoping the rice cereal will help with this, if not we are going to try Zantac.
*Loves to stand up! Likes to exercise on peoples lap, standing up and sitting down.
*First time rolled from back to tummy November 25.
*First time blew rasberries November 24
*Wearing 3-6 month clothes, some 6-9 months, and footy PJ's size 12 months
*Loves to chew on his keys
*Doctor said he has mild eczema. Told us to stop using Johnson & Johnson and switch to Aveno body wash. She also gave us prescription cream. He just has a few patches, she said it would be worse during the winter months.
*Today he got 2 shots and the oral immunization for the stomach virus.