Katie

[heathrowga]

Wednesday was Katie's 9 month well-baby visit. She's 19 lbs 8 oz (25-50%) and 27.75 inches long (50%). The doctor was impressed with how you are blowing through milestones - you're standing and creeping, and you've been known to take a step or two while holding onto your Winnie the Pooh push toy.

By the way, the doctors are crazy. They required a blood test for Vitamin D and iron levels. Do you know that it takes 2 phlebotomists and 1 mommy to hold her down while they search for a vein in her perfectly chubby elbow? Now I do.

She is smart and funny and definitely her own little person. She is not a good sleeper, but we'll deal with that. She prefers to be in my arms or within a few feet of me, but I know that will pass. I hope. Because Mommy would really like to go to the bathroom on her own again.

I am most sorry for all the head trauma she accumulates. Whether it is from the occasional couch dive or falling flat on her back when creeping, I am so sorry that advanced calculus may not be in her future. Oh, as for Amelia jumping on the bed and landing on Katie while we were in the hotel room in Tampa? That was a shining moment of parenthood.

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[pixelmonster.livejournal.com]

All wee ones get head trauma. My son figured out rolling over by rolling off the couch. He still rolls off of furniture while sleeping and he's three and only sometimes it's still accidental. He also launches himself off of the bed head-first. I have seen a cat jump on him tho:)

[lemon-says.livejournal.com]

Heh, the second one is always more durable (or just more often injured?) than the first.

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry that advanced calculus may not be in her future. Oh, as for Amelia jumping on the bed and landing on Katie while we were in the hotel room in Tampa? That was a shining moment of parenthood.

Don't worry about it. They've still got promising careers in the field of Lookit Them Chicks Wrasslin! -- er, I mean, women's professional wrestling.

[fiddledragon]

bah - do you know how many times Spud bonks his head? he has a head with an armored case...and I swear he's gonna start college before Beena gets out of high school :P

As The Kid Falls

[fizzgig-bites.livejournal.com]

Every parent suffers though "shining moment of parenthood" except you really meant to say moments. Those don't bother me anymore. Wait till you graduate to "straddle injury," you know, where your kid smashes her crouch on something and bleeds badly from her vagina. That one is more embarrassing than the hamburger for a face and a few broken teeth. Well, actually not...

Parenting is a rough gig...

As my mom used to say, "As long as you are not pregnant, on drugs, an alcoholic, and you make it to 21 in one piece, I must be doing something right."

Yeah...

Re: As The Kid Falls

[ximinez]

Don't forget the swan dive off the couch into the coffee table. No damage that time, but man, that CRACK sound still reverberates in my head...

[bassy-galore.livejournal.com]

9 months! My, how time flies by.

Huh, I don't remember Audrey having a Vitamin D & iron test. Maybe she did, but I wasn't there for any of her well baby visits, so I wouldn't really know. That's the one thing I regret about working...not being able to go through the torturous doctors visits. Sounds like Katie is doing great though! Yay!

BG

[eloren.livejournal.com]

Let' see, Rachel has face dived onto the corner of a Tivo and run full speed face first into the edge of a door...oh the joys that await you once she's running full tilt (and I do mean that literally, they just have no fine motor control and poor balance for a good long time!) It really is a bit of a wonder to me that neither of those resulted in a coma or even the need for stitches.

WTG on the growing, Katie! You'll be chasing big sis up and down hallways in no time!