9.5 months - Rory

A little belated, but its that time of year.  Rory turned 9 months and then the whirlwind began with Cason's birthday, family visitors, and Christmas.  We went to her 9 month appointment and she is 29 inches tall (90%) and 19lbs 3.5 oz (60%).  She is one inch shorter than Cason and a 1/2 an ounce lighter than him at the same age.

She is officially on the move.  Crawling on all fours quickly, pulling herself up everywhere and cruising along the furniture.  She is also letting go and trying to balance.  She looks like a little surfer when she does that.  So far we haven't had too many spills, but it sure sounds loud when her head hits the hardwood.  She recovers after 30 seconds of tears.

She is already a daddy's girl and also loves Cason.  Either one of them can make her smile by just saying hi to her.  She also has become quite the water baby and loves playing in the bath.  She kicks and splashes the whole time and doesn't care if she gets water in her face.

December!

Oh it just gets busier and busier.

The past few weeks have been busy as usual, but add the holidays and a upcoming birthday and time seems to be short.  We had Gigi visit in the middle of November followed the next weekend with a visit from Boppa.  The kiddos enjoyed seeing their grandparents.  Then onto Thanksgiving which we hosted for the first time ever.  Unfortunately I came down with the flu on late Tuesday night and by Wednesday at noon I was miserable.  The chills and aches were awful and I ran a fever of over 100 for 48 hours.  So Steve got to cook the Thanksgiving dinner all by himself and also help with the kiddos as there were many moments that I was curled up on the couch.  He did a great job (though he won't say so) and we enjoyed Thanksgiving with his family.

Rory is now standing up and starting to move around.  Cason is just being 3!  His favorite new line is "I'm tired" when he doesn't want to do something we have asked him to do.

hurricane Rory now…

having to read to both now

testing our lights - Cason was my helper

8 months old - Rory

We have had a rough month.  Rory cut her first tooth at 7 months and now she has a total of 4! 4 teeth in one month is a lot of restless nights on top of a cold that knocked us out.  Plus she is officially our little vampire.  She has her two bottom center teeth which came in a month ago and her two top canine teeth!  That is going to look quite interesting in a month if she doesn't get her other top teeth soon.  She has graduated to eating lots of stuff now.  She has had bananas, apples, peaches, blueberries, mango, pears, sweet potato, prunes, peas, carrots, winter squash, butternut squash, green beans, etc.  She is a pretty good eater now and squeals at you if you don't go fast enough.  We are going to try protein and some finger foods (puffs) this week since we have some teeth and it is time to start.

Rory has started to sleep through the night every 3rd night or so.  She is usually upset with the teething which wakes her.  We are still nursing, but it is coming to an end.  Rory is weaning herself off and is not very consistent on her intake even when it is the same time every morning and night.  I am ready to stop, she is ready to stop, good time to do it.  

We are starting to have to break up the kiddos now.  Rory ALWAYS wants what Cason is playing with and is super persistent on getting to it.  Cason gets upset and swipes it away from her yelling, "No Rory!"  This happens a lot so we have to educate Cason not to get so crazy as Rory will be really getting into his toys soon.  Oh, 18 more years of this… wait it never really ends.

Lastly, this morning as I was waiting for Tina to show up, the kids were in the living room and I was filling the dishwasher.  I felt like I was in one of those house remodeling shows as I kept popping my head around the corner since I have "no sight lines" to the living room from the kitchen.  So Rory was on her stomach playing with toys and the next second I look out and she is sitting up!  I had to laugh as I totally missed it.  Darn you 92 year old house with no sight lines.

Here is our little 8 month old.

starting to learn to wave

fingers in mouth to ease those teeth

favorite game:  throwing something on the ground and then looking to see where it went

her hair is starting to grow!

Colds Suck!

Well we all caught "the cold" this time.  It really knocked all of us out for a day or so.  Cason was sick first which started on Halloween with a fever.  We stayed home with him last Friday to get him well.  Friday night was super tough as Cason was up most of the night with a serious cough.  I ended up sleeping in be with him from 3am -7am.  Then it was Rory's turn.  She woke Saturday morning at 5am with a fever and was unhappy.  Being that she was a baby we ended up taking her to the doctor to rule out ear infections.  She is now 17lbs 8 oz.  So both kids traded off being the "sickest" on Saturday.  Saturday night wasn't as rough as everyone had their tylenol in them as they went to bed.  Then Sunday came around and Steve started to get sick with a sore throat.  By Monday night my throat was sore and Tuesday I was in a complete fog.  Cason decided he would make Mommy better on Tuesday night and gave me a check up with Dr. Cason.  The best part is when he checks your ears with his medical tools… on one side he says "pop, pop" and other is "toot toot" as he looks at them.  LOL.  Now a week has passed and everyone appears to be better for the most part.  Lingering coughs are about it for all.

stuffy face at the dr. office

watching cartoons on the couch

my Dr. Cason - as I lay sick on the couch

Little Inchworm

Rory is on the move.  Well she has been on the move for awhile, but now she is on her hands and knees and getting places faster.  She still inches along like a worm, but really wants to be up on her hands and knees.  I think she will get there by next week.

Halloween

Well two halloween costumes, almost 500 pieces of candy, and two super tired parents after a crazy week, we lasted until 8:50 this year with candy.  Cason enjoyed giving out the candy more than actually trick or treating from house to house.  He got pretty into it and made sure to give each person a piece after eyeing their costumes.  He only got scared once by a teenager with a scary mask.  Rory was my little monkey this year as Cason picked out his train conductor and her costume.