11 Months Old

My little girl is 11 months old today. A year ago today I was fighting with my blood pressure on a constant basis and trying to figure out if I had gestational diabetes or not. Boy how things have changed. I look at her now and she's over 2 ft tall. 28" at last check. It's so beautiful to hear her laugh and giggle and when she smiles, everything is right with the world. I can't believe that in 31 days, she's going to be a year old. Wow. Time is passing so quickly.

Learning "No"

My daughter has NO FEAR. She also has absolutely no concept of the word NO. I remember when she was still in the NICU having the convo with my mom about picking and choosing battles and the comment was made that we were going to have to be gentle with her because she's delicate. Yeah well let me tell you, she's a tough little shit and the whole be gentle with her thing has gone completely out the door. You can look at her and tell her no, and I've done it in the most stern tone that I have available and she will look up at me, notice that I've said something, smile and go right back to what she was doing! OMG this child is her father! Bull headed and stubborn as all get out! LoL!

On another note though, boy how the tables have changed when it comes to the dogs. T-man could care less about Squeak, but Symph, she treats her as if she were one of her puppies. Someone walks in and she is instantly between Squeak and whoever it is. Even when her teacher is here, and Symph loves her teacher! But when they're playing, she's all business. She's right in the thick of things making sure that the teacher isn't hurting her. My neighbor came over not to long ago to fix my kitchen lights, he walked around the corner to look at her in her Jenny Jumper and boy Symph just jumped up and let him know that she was there and he was NOT going to let him touch her until I said it was okay. It was so funny. So now she's the front line, and the sneak up and shank ya in the back if you get too close. She's a pretty busy little puppy. LoL! Figuratively speaking anyway. But she's a great advocate. It's nice. Life is good and she is such a happy baby. I'm so blessed!

Crawling

So it's been a few days since y last post. But I have to say, so much has changed! She's not only crawling ALL OVER THE PLACE. And this has just started in the last few days that she's really taken to crawling every where. Well today, she was crawling around the living room and she went to the steps that we have leading to the dining room in the house. She showed absolutely NO FEAR, and she crawled up every step leading to the dining room! I was amazed! It was so cool! I was tickled pink! So when her daddy got home, I told him to stand in the doorway of the living room/dining room and set her on the floor, and there she went! She's gotten to the point that she won't even stay on the rug any more. Hard wood or not, she's gone! LoL! She loves it! It's so amazing. I can't believe that in a little over a month and a half she's going to be a year old. So much has changed I can barely remember her being in the hospital. She's got so much fight in her that I look at her and I swear she's gonna be a little scrapper. LoL! School awaits and I absolutely dread every second until that time. I've thought about home schooling so many times, I just hope I can actually go through with it. That would alleviate so much worry. Yeah right. LoL! Oh well. Time will tell I'm sure. Anyway, I was so excited, I just had to share. Eke. My little girl is growing up. So many firsts to come. Time is flying by so fast. I can't believe it.

More firsts

My little girl is sitting up all on her own now! I'm so excited. She can go from laying down to sitting up all by herself! Eke! She's making such strides! It's amazing! She's still so little though. Most people look at her and can't believe that she's so alert for her size, but no one realizes she's almost ten months old and still as little as she is. Her pediatrician says she's doing great. She's been eating like a champ too and I think she's back to gaining weight but I'm not sure. It seems like she is though. Her buckles are getting tighter on her height chair. So that's a good thing. She's almost crawling too! She's inch worming. She hasn't gotten the whole concept down of one knee in front of the other, but she's getting there. I can put her down on the floor and she just wiggles around and keeps trying. She's growing up so fast! :-(
It's good that she's growing, but she's going to be off to college before I know it. Time flies. I can't believe she's gonna be a year old in 2 months. Where has it gone?

Her first word

So my little girl said her first word today. Her first word was dada. She was talking and hollerin and we were all like "mama" and "dada" and all of a sudden she just blurted out dada! Of course we all screamed and scared the crap out of her, but she did it! She said dada! Man, she's growing so much! I could cry. LoL!

Figuring things out

Well, little girl has figured out how to use a brush. Well, she's gotten the main concept of it anyway. She was setting there today and she picked up her brush and tried brush her uncle's hair. Or well, his head anyway. LoL! It's amazing to watch what she learns on a daily basis. What she picks up and puts to use...amazing.

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.