15 month stats

Sorry Tessa, I skipped your twelve month stats so I'll have to go back through all of my paperwork to see if I can locate them now.  These are your fifteen month stats:

Height - 31.75 in, 85th percentile
Weight - 22 lbs 6 oz, 45th percentile
Head circumference - 18.5 in, 80th percentile

You were a good, good girl yet again.  Dr. Merritt let you touch her stethoscope and her light which was very nice of her.  Your regular nurse is on maternity leave and this nurse wasn't nearly as skilled but you survived.  She jabbed that needle right into your thigh and you were in a lot of pain all night.  Sorry Petey!

One more word!

New words are coming fast and furious now.  This is an amazing time for toddlers!  Yesterday, I had to leave work early to take Tessa to the doctor for a bad cough.  Turns out both of her ears are infected as well, poor baby.  But she made me feel better when we trekked to the store to pick up her med.  We wandered around for a bit until she said OOOHHH-COOOWWW!  I turned around and there was a poster of a cow in the dairy aisle.  So cute.  I think she's said OOOOHHH-COOWWW rougly 29,000 times since then.

DOGGY!!!

Sorry Tessa, no time to post lately even though you've been making leaps and bounds in progress.  A few weekends ago Jason, Mom and I were at my house doing some work to get the house ready for Ken and Nissi to come (Yay, roommates!).  We were all in the kitchen with you looking at your big board book of 100 words.  Now, you haven't spoken too much yet not that you're not verbal, because you are...you just don't usually use words we can understand other than MumMum or BaBa or KAAAAA! (cat).

We turned to the page with animals and we showed you the ducky, cat (Kaaaa), doggy, etc.  Suddenly, you said, "DOGGY!" clear as day.  We were all so surprised.  If you had recited the Gettysburg Address -4score and 7 years ago-I don't think we would have been more shocked.  Wow, things just change so fast.  Now you can also say RUFRUFRUFRUF in a high pitch after Violet does the same thing.

Nine whole months!

Today was Tessa's nine month checkup.  She is right on track developmentally.

Weight: 19lb 2 oz / 50th %ile
Height:  29 in / 90th %ile
Head circumference: 17.5 in / 60th %ile

Beach

Last weekend saw Tessa's first ever beach experience.  Everyone who knows me knows that I love to make short visits to the beach.  Uncle Jason went along for the ride, to help us at the beach, and to see Brent.  Tessa loved the beach, the sand, and the water.  In fact, she loved the sand so much she tried to eat it several times.  Uncle Jason put her down to feel the waves and she was a tiny bit frightened of that but she got over her fear pretty fast.  We also had a tent that was ridiculously hard to assemble and are forever grateful to Uncle Jay for putting it up.

Tessa also sneaked a piece of lord-only-knows-how-old-bacon from the floor of the hotel room and chewed it like a piece of bubblegum for about ten minutes until I discovered it.  Gross!  She tried cinnamon apples from Chili's while Momma had a delicioso margarita but Tessa's not a fan of cinnamon. She made the worst faces.

Uncle Jay had his first pooh-plosion experience trying to change Tessa in IHOP's bathroom after she was a bit fussy while Momma was finishing breakfast.  I'm sure it was an unforgettable moment for him.  Yay for IHOP having a changing table in the gent's restroom though.

Six Months!!!

Wow, Tessa is six months old as of yesterday.  We went to the doctor this morning for a well-baby checkup and these are her stats:

Height: 27 in / 90th %ile
Weght: 17.3 lbs/ 75th %ile

Samantha

I took you outside to play with Samantha yesterday evening.  The weather was beautifully perfect but of course Samantha was coughing and choking horribly because of her allergies.  It's probably the mold that affects her so but my heart goes out to the poor little doggie.  She rolled on her back in the grass which probably doesn't help but at least it reminds me that she can still get a little normal doggie joy out of her life.  You laughed everytime she turned her face toward you.  She licked your hand and you laughed.  I suspect Samantha will be gone before you remember her but maybe this will help.

(That's Anthony beside Samantha)