Some great news: Liam's cousin Bella was born on his 9 month birthday!! We're so excited that she joined the family and that it will be easy to remember her birthday since it's the same number as Liam's the 23rd! We haven't been able to see her besides a few pictures, hopefully she'll be able to join her mama in the room later tonight where we can skype. Here's her stats she was born at 36.5wks EGA (mama was having high blood pressure and she was a repeat c/s) weighing 8 pounds 12 ounces and was 20.5 inches long. For now I'll give a sneak peak with a camera phone picture....the cheeks are to DIE for:
Now back to our regularly scheduled programming :)
Liam is 9 months old!!!!!
Stats:
Height: 28.5 inches
Weight: 21 pounds 5 ounces
Head Circumference: 45cm
Clothes: Carters 12m, 12-18m or size 4 shoes, Gap/Gymboree 6-12m, Onesies12-18m, Bum Genius all the way unsnapped with single stuffed and a doubler at night.
He's still using his infant carseat but is really starting to outgrow the straps. I would really like for him to stay in it as long as possible just for the safety factor but I'm thinking we're going to need to move him to his Britax, still rear facing of course, in the next month.
A reminder of how far he's come...and for the record I want to cry every time I look back at how itty bitty he was.
Firsts:
This week we passed the inside/outside threshold. Basically that means that Liam is now an outside baby for longer than he was an inside baby. He was born when I was 40 weeks and 2 days pregnant but technically I wasn't actually pregnant for the first 2wks of that count. After he passed 38 weeks and 2 days old, which
happened on Tuesday, he will always have been 'outside' longer than he was 'inside'.
6th tooth! The upper left central incisor came in on Saturday. I'm hoping we'll get a month or two reprieve from teething before it starts up again.
First time getting bit by another child. We were at the InShape Saturday and as usual Liam went to the childcare center. He was there maybe 40 minutes and when we went to pick him up the lady said there had been an 'incident' Some other child bit him, the manager had spoken to their parent and that was it. You can see the fall out in the pictures, it appears he was actually bitten twice. I'm not too worried since he's bitten us several times and loves to pull hair, I figure he had it coming. Certainly he's going to repay the favor at some point in the future.
Day to day stuff
Liam has had very popping joints since day one, I think it may be the first thing I asked Dr. Daley about at his regular visits. After asking Dominic I'm pretty certain that this comes from the Jensen side. We all seem to be pretty flexible and have rather loose joints....Dominic, not so much. Anyway, Dr Daley confirmed it's normal way back then and it hasn't gone away yet. When we pick him up you can usually feel his shoulders kind of give and 'pop'.
Black Beans are his current FAVORITE food. He doesn't just like them, he LOVES them. We can't give him the beans until he's had time with the rest of his meal choices because he'll just avoid the other options and eat beans.
Like most kids, Liam loves the dishwasher. I'm sure you remember the picture of him standing on the door, while this week he actually helped unload the silverware! I can't wait to have a little helper around the house. Wonder how long before I can teach him to clean bathrooms???
Christmas PJ's have been in full effect all month and this week we're going to highlight them all! Here's the first pair for your viewing pleasure.
On that note, we made sugar cookies for frosting later this week. Liam sat and watched and had a great time, although I'm sure he would have been happier if we let him taste one.
See my bite??
More teeth, six in total now
who me??
Got anymore black beans mom??
Rolling out the cookie dough
I've been good Santa, I promise
A hilarious video of Eclair getting treats, she gets broccoli stalk pieces, and Liam's reaction it.
We had Becca do a few family shots so we had some to use for the Christmas card, this was back in October and I'm finally getting around to posting them. In all fairness if I had posted them earlier then the Christmas card would be old news...
