As of Friday, May 11:
Weight: 12 pounds; 15 ounces
Weight: 12 pounds; 15 ounces
Length: 25 and 3/4th inches
Head Circumference: 16 and 7/8th inches
Kaitlyn's length and weight are staying on their growth curves, and her head size percentile has jumped up a bit, which is great. Developmentally, her fine motor skills are at the stage of a seven month old, so her pediatrician recommended we have First Steps come into our home periodically to help her out.
Nine Month Letter
Kaitlyn,
Just recently it seems as if you've turned a corner and are kissing your baby days goodbye. You're a squirmer and like to be on the floor playing with toys with mom or dad close by. If I walk out of the room you howl in protest but you'll soon be content playing by yourself for a while. You sit up, scoot, roll, and have discovered that there's better food out there than what you get in baby jars. For a long while you didn't seem like you could handle food that wasn't completely pureed, but those days are gone.
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| At playgroup on Tuesday, May 22 |
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| At the park on a Sunday morning recently |
Skylie gets possessive of you, and when other kids try to get close to look at you, she'll push the kids away and say, "Dat's my baby!" You two are starting to interact a tiny bit now, which I love. You like to reach for anything in sight, and occasionally it's Skylie's hair or arms. If Sky's in a good mood she'll make a game of it and pretend like you're tickling her.
Love,
Mom
*****
A few weeks ago I left Kaitlyn downstairs and Skylie upstairs while I took a shower. A few minutes later I found them like this:
In a house with two young kids, there's lots of cries, screams, and tantrums around here--enough to drive any sane person crazy. In fact, I sometimes I wonder if insanity is a requirement for motherhood. But one aspect that helps me stay relatively sane and enjoy being a mother is to focus on moments like this. When the kids are happy; when they say or do something sweet. I try to remember to tell Matt about those sweet moments and write them down if I'm really on top of things. Those moments propel me though the other 50, 80, or sometimes 90 percent of the time when I'm simply trudging through the muck and hoping that the craziness will die down. We rarely have a completely blissful day, but we sure have our share of great moments.
