Oh man, I am so far behind that I’m not sure I’ll ever catch up. How did this happen to me?! Does anyone want a job being my personal assistant? Apparently, I can’t finish my own personal goals or meet my own deadlines. Alright, enough fussing.
If you are just checking back into this blog, there are 5 new entries (Week 31 and forward); some aren’t finished yet and I’m missing all the April entries. However, I’m going to post this entry and then hopefully fill in the missing weeks from March & April. I’ve been feeling so stressed that I haven’t updated the blog that I have to put something out here for you! I’ll also post more photo albums later.
Erik is now 9 months old! His pediatrician asked me whether the 40 weeks of pregnancy or the 40 weeks of Erik’s life had gone faster. I definitely have to vote for the past 40 weeks! Since we’ve brought Erik home from the hospital, I’m still waiting for some free time to appear. At his 9 month appointment, Erik weighed in at 20 pounds and 28 inches tall. His weight is in the 75% percentile and his height is closer to the 50% percentile. Kent & I were actually surprised that Erik was only 20 pounds since his last weigh-in in February was 18 pounds; we were expecting him to be closer to 24 or 25 pounds!
Erik is on the verge of crawling - he rolls over all the time now and goes from sitting to lying down very easily. He gets on his hands & knees and rocks back & forth, but so far has only managed to push himself backwards. Erik also likes to stand next to the couch and coffee table - he cannot pull himself up yet, but I guess that skill isn’t too far in the future either. Kent & I are actually happy that he isn’t crawling yet - we haven’t managed to baby-proof our house yet, so we are enjoying that Erik stays, or mostly stays, where we put him!
While not very mobile, Erik is quite the talker. He babbles and “sings” all the time now. He uses various tones, inflections and octaves when “talking”. He mimics the sounds that we make, trying to say the same thing we are. He is currently learning how to make the “t” sound and even made the “th” sound the other day! He is correctly using “Mama” and “Dada” at the appropriate places now. The coolest thing is that Erik has said “All Done” 2 or 3 times at the end of some recent nursing sessions! Whenever he is done, I will ask him if he is all done and he has responded a few times with “A-don”. Kent & I have been using certain sign language signs to communicate with Erik. Erik has seemingly ignored all signs that we have used with him. Until this week when he nearly made the sign for Daddy. It is so exciting to see Erik learn and grow.
A rather unfortunate first that Erik experienced this week is that he had his first accident with resulting “owie”. We were taking family pictures Sunday morning at a local park for Erik’s 9th month; we were about 15-20 minutes into our hour long session when Erik tipped over while sitting on a little wagon and hit the pavement face first. He had been laughing at some antics that Kent & I were doing off camera and leaned over towards us...then, boom, he was on the ground. Poor little guy. We cleaned him up (not as much blood as we thought there would be) and continued with our photos. We hope that his resulting swollen lip isn’t noticeable when he smiles & laughs. By the afternoon, his lip was very swollen and we could see that he actually landed on his nose, lip and the skin between. I've attached some of the photos from that morning; they were taken by Tim Putt and he did an amazing job!
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| Erik - just prior to falling |
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| 9 months old |
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| Erik |
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| Kent, Kelli & Erik |
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