9 Month Check Up

Well, little girls check up didn't go too well. She's growing in length just fine, in fact in length she jumped from the 10th percentile to the 33rd percentile. However in weight, she's actually lost weight. The doctor said it's very likely that it's because she is more active and she told me to actually start feeding her more than normal if she'll take it. She said that it does concern her in the fact that it has took her from the 10th percentile in the premie category to the 5th percentile and we need to get it back up as quickly as we can. I feel just beside myself with worry. I'm going to do everything I can to get her back to where she needs to be. And it's admittedly a bit worse knowing that the doctor is a little worried herself. But she's confident that the increase in calories will do the trick. I just hope she's right.

Killer Whales

So I have a love of Orca's. Well the other night while looking for a ringtone for my aunt, I stumbled across a ringtone that is killer whales singing. So I downloaded it. I put it for my text. Well the other day, I got a text and it went off and my daughter started mocking the whale song. It was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. When she's in a good mood and the phone goes off she will mock the song. She makes the same squealing sound. Ahh, what I'm doing to my child. LoL!

Being a mommy

I love being a mom. I was so scared when I first thought of it, but I just, I love it. Sometimes its the most stressful thing in the world, but others it's bliss. Making her smile is the best thing in the whole world. I love making her smile, or giggle and laugh. It's all so worth it! Ahh. Life is good!

Baby Monitor

So just a little funny story. My husband took the Squeak back to the bedroom to put her in her room and we were gonna watch a movie. So I go ahead and get the monitor and turn it on. Well I'm waiting and waiting for my husband to come back and I notice all of the little red dots move all the way up, then all they way back down. All the way up, then all they way down. Looked like an equalizer on a radio. So I turn up the volume and I laugh my butt off hearing that it's my husband, snoring. LoL! Good times. Good times.

Teething

Well, little girl has had her bottom teeth come in and it has been hell on the tyke. Well last night she was just crying, and we thought it was her ears. Well took her into the doctor today and all four top teeth are coming in at once! Poor thing! That's why she was having so much trouble with sleeping. She has NOT slept well at all in the last few days. The doctor said we can give her some Infant Motrin and it might work better than the Tylenol, dependent on the baby. So far, it seems to have helped. Poor thing has slept all day because she's been out of pain for the first time in a while. The Motrin is also an anti-inflametory which would help out with her gums. Only time will tell. My little girl is growing so fast. She's up to 14 lbs now on the dot. Growing, growing, growing.

Growing

She's getting bigger! I can hardly believe it. She's 14 lbs now and has both bottom teeth. My first Mother's Day was amazing as she and her daddy took me to a Ren Fest and I got a little ring that pulls apart into 4 separate rings but when together weaves into a beautiful dainty ring.

At times I don't see her growing, until I look at one of her old premie outfits, then I almost want to cry. Then I have to laugh when I think about how much like me she is sometimes. Not in looks! In looks she is ALL her daddy. But the little things there are that I've found. Like the fact that she loves sleeping on her stomach just like me. She loves to sleep in, just like me. She smiles all the time. Well I'm not that good all the time, but I'm sure I was when I was a baby. And she loves to just ramble on even though what she is saying makes no sense to anyone but her, just like me. LoL!

She's come so far. I was going through old pictures and I can't imagine life without her. I remember the nights when she was up at the hospital, waiting to grow so she could come home, and I would cry myself to sleep praying that she made it through the night. Now I watch her sleep and cant help but just be so thankful for the fact that only is she home, she's doing amazing, and little as she is, she's so advanced. She is small but mighty. She laughs and giggles all the time now and she is so animated. Even the teacher that comes out to see her made that comment yesterday. That for her age, she's very animated. She's my little girl. I'm so proud to be a mommy. I couldn't imagine life without her.

Milestones

Man is she becoming more and more her own little person. It's amazing. She finally had her first tooth really pop through yesterday and today. After all the fighting of teething, her bottom right tooth is through! Eke! She's also sitting up and actually playing with her toys! It's so amazing to see how much she grows every day. I'm really thankful that I'm able to stay home with her. It's so great to know she's doing so good. The developmental people also called as well. They said that the tests that they ran showed that she is doing amazing. Her cognitive and motor skills are right where they need to be for a 6 month old even though she was technically 3 1/2 months at the time of the test due to her being 10 weeks early. That gets frustrating let me tell you. Because she was 10 weeks early, when the doctor looks at her development, she takes her actual age, minus 10 weeks, and that's her age. It's because that first 10 weeks of her life she was playing catch up from being born so early and developing what should have been developed in the womb. So that being said, I can't complain, because it means my little girl is ahead of the curve! I'm so proud of my little squeaky butt!