So think back to early May :) Chloe weighed in at 14lbs, 10oz at her nine month, which is off the bottom of the chart for weight. She was 27ins which is maybe 25th percentile. [they give us charts now instead of the numbers, so it's a little harder [for me at least!] to read]. Her head was 17.2 ins which looks to be right about 50th. The next question is usually: how does that compare to her sibs? So here's Ryan's 9month stats:
He weighed in at 17lbs 2 oz and is 28.5 inches.
And Abby's:
She weighed in at 16lbs 11 oz and is 27.25 inches.
So wow, our Itty-Bitty really is an Itty-Bitty! [although basically as tall as her sister was].
Hmm, there's not a very good 9month picture. It's getting really hard to get her to hold her signs! They are so much fun to wave around and to chew on.
Chloe started sitting up at the end of April, just in time for her 9month pictures. She's a little, err, lazy. I suppose that would be partially my fault. She's my third and my baby. I carry her a lot and she spends a lot of time in her stroller or carseat while the Big Two do all the things they do. Plus she still spits up. All. The. Time. So after she drinks a bottle, I put her in the blue chair to digest. It seems to be a catch 22 there. The doctor tells me as she gets stronger she'll spit up less, yet if I let her down to exercise she spits up everywhere. We will need new carpet by the time this phase is finally said and done!
So let's see, current day, Chloe is ten plus months old. She sits like a champ. And one of my favorite of her tricks, is that she can spin in circles while sitting. She uses her feet and rotates around and around on her bum. Another family favorite trick is Chloe's turtle pose. She spreads her legs way apart to sit [better for balance I think], and she is quite fond of bending forward until her face touches the ground. We make silly kids.
She's been rolling all around for some time, but she recently added an army crawl to her repertoire. She still doesn't pick her belly up, but we're all different, that's what makes us us :) Now that she army crawls, moving forward is a lot easier, which means things like crawling in between the corners of the couches. Or crawling around the legs of the barstools and under the table. She also likes to beeline for the bathroom, which is just nasty. cat litter crumbs. big sibs using the potty. Enough said.
Chloe can be a good eater sometimes. She's not a huge fan of her bottles [four a day, about six ounces each]. Typically she much prefers food, but the past week or so, she's been pretty opposed to it. In fact for about three days last weekend, she flat out refused anything on a spoon. Mouth sealed shut, arms flailing. She only drank and ate cheerios. I think her teeth were bothering her. That's what you say when you don't know what else could be wrong. She likes her cheerios and star puffs and teething cookies and yogurt bites. She doesn't pick up much else. I think her teeth bother her. She'll eat anything mushy, except avocado. When her teeth don't bother her, that is. While I feel like I am doing my best to enjoy the baby stage, this third and final time around, I do look forward to her eating more finger foods soon.
Speaking of those troublesome teeth, she has two on the bottom and four on the top. They are big, like her Mommy's. Sorry! The ones on the top have all come in together at basically the same time the past couple weeks.
Chloe loves the grass. She loves baths. She loves the pool, especially if the water's warm. She got that from her Mommy :) She is a big fan of splish splashing. Yesterday was her first time in the float and she was about as happy as I've ever seen her. She loves her big brother and sister. Ryan is really good at getting her to laugh. And they both adore her. She loves to swing. She loves to chew on things.
Oh my goodness! I am ten months old already!
She's a great sleeper, although very light. Almost everything wakes her up, but she just rolls over and goes back to sleep. I don't even try to kiss her when I say good night before I go to bed. Even pulling the fan chain will startle her. She naps ideally twice a day still and sleeps almost twelve hours at night. She's usually the first kid up, shortly after 7:00, but she's happy to lay in her bed until whenever. She seems to be attaching herself to a little purple elephant that we gave her for Valentine's Day. I love it! She sucks her left thumb [all the time!!] and always falls asleep on her right side facing out into the room. I love that she usually has the elephant in her arms.
Chloe's personality seems to be pretty laid-back, taking it all in. She is always super observant. She likes to watch TV and she nailed the vision test at the doctor. She was in a trance watching that screen, even the tech commented on it and she watches kids watch tv for a living. She is lot like her big brother in that she seems to want to be able to do something perfectly before she'll do it. They were both late sitter-uppers and crawlers and walkers.
Chloe can clap and is getting pretty good at doing it when we encourage her. At first it was pretty random and we weren't convinced she knew what she was doing. She definitely does now and seems to love the attention when she does it. A couple of times I've thought she waved, but she certainly doesn't do that on a regular basis.
Oh, she had a physical therapy evaluation in late May. Dr. Bowman was a little concerned since she has been physically a little behind at both her six and nine month appts. But she did great and the therapist did not think we needed any sessions, yay! She agreed that Chloe's a little behind, but there's no reason for concern. She did several things to test brain and reflexes and that sort of thing and Chloe could do them all. It just comes back to she's lazy :). Her upper body was a little weak, which explains the lack of crawling, so there's a few exercises that she suggested that we don't do as well as we should. But she's off and moving around so much more than she was even then. She'll catch up in her own time. She'll learn to walk before we know if and as my friend Christa likes to remind me, no school or job application is ever going to ask when you learned to crawl or walk. Early or late, it doesn't really matter, almost everyone averages out in the end. [she is convinced Ryan is above average, but that's not relevant to Chloe's post :)]. Anyway, the PT appt was pretty interesting and fun in its own way , all the different exercises and whatnot. It was nice to focus solely on Chloe for an hour.
Alrighty, Chloe Marie, we love you Little Peanut! Sorry for the delay on your post, but the quantity [and hopefully quality too] perhaps will make up for it! I am all out of words!
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