You had your nine-month checkup on Wednesday with no shots. Happy day for you! You now weigh 22 pounds and you are 29 ½” tall. You are in the 100th percentile in everything, which is good because you are growing proportionally, but you are going to be tall. I wouldn’t mind knowing what that’s like.
You don’t always laugh a lot, and we have to work with you sometimes just to get a little bit of a laugh out of you. But, one morning I was in the kitchen eating breakfast and suddenly hear you laughing. I peak through the opening between the kitchen and the living room so that I don’t distract you and watch as you laugh at a tv show. It was some silly hand puppets blowing bubbles and you thought they were pretty funny. They must have been to get you to laugh.
The weather has changed dramatically in the last couple of days. It was so nice for so long and then suddenly the cold air came rushing in. We are supposed to even have snow in the mountains this weekend. The trees are beautiful colors of reds, oranges and yellows right now but that probably won’t last very long.
You have learned the cutest little dance where you shake your head and shoulders and arms. While you eat in the kitchen I turn on the radio–it’s been classical music lately–and you just start moving to the beat. You smile at me as we both dance away.
I am trying to teach you how to sit up from a laying down position. You have done it on your own a couple of times but you’re still learning. You still scoot backwards or roll around the floor but you haven’t gotten into crawling yet. That’s fine by me. We did buy a pack n' play, and I take it with us in the morning over to the clubhouse for you to play in while I work out. You actually are much happier in it than when I put you on the floor. It’s a lot for me to take over just to work out, but it’s worth it for me to get the exercise.
You are becoming quite a screamer. You don’t understand the concept of whisper but can express yourself with quite a vocal range. Not wonderful, especially when you do it in church. I hope it is just a stage of development and exploration and that you will grow out of wanting to do it so often. I try not to call Daddy too loudly when I am in a different part of the house than him because you seem to take great interest in what I am doing. You can be such a stinker at times.
Thursday, September 7, 2000
We took you swimming again last night soon after we finished supper. You are becoming quite a little fish in the water. You have learned how to get your face wet and spit the water out of your mouth instead of swallowing it. Your little bottom and legs wiggle around as we move you through the water. We have to keep moving because the water is kind of cold–even though it’s supposed to be 82 degrees–but after about 25-30 minutes your little lips start to shiver. I love being able to go over at any time to swim or exercise.
Wednesday, September 6, 2000
Our clubhouse is now open as of Sept. 1 and we took you swimming in the pool on Monday morning. It was the Labor Day holiday so even though Daddy was working, he was just on call at home and was able to come with us. While we were there, I called Aunt Susan and she got all of her family out of bed and brought them swimming too. Kaden was so amazed that we could come swimming any time we wanted. This morning I took you over to the clubhouse while I worked out on one of the exercise machines. You played on the floor with your toys and watched tv while I exercised. We will probably need to get some sort of pack n' play when you begin to get a little more mobile. I am looking forward to getting into much better shape.
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