have to brag

Sorry, but I can't help but share my excitement. After 9 1/2 long months... I can finally wear my pre-pregnancy jeans!!! Woo hoo! Little snug, but hey, if I can button them, I'm wearing them! :) I have pretty much told everyone I've come into contact with the past few days. I'm sure they think I'm crazy. I really just can't contain my excitement. After seeing the "damage" after delivering, I didn't know if I would ever get back in them. I guess it's true... 9 months to put it on, at least 9 months to take it off.

So now I have more motivation to get to the gym and eat better. I would love to lose 10 more pounds. I'll let ya know how it goes.

9 month checkup

This morning we headed to the Dr. for Adalynn's 9 month checkup. We saw Kelly, a nurse practitioner. Kelly is so sweet. She is actually one of my mom's friends. Our gal weighed 22 lb 13 oz. (She weighed 23 lb 3 oz a couple of weeks ago, but that was fully clothed and with a wet diaper.) :) She was 28.5 inches long. 95th percentile for weight and 90th for height if I remember correctly.

I was given a questionnaire to fill out about Adalynn's development. It had all kinds of questions. Gross motor, fine motor, speech, and social skills. Kelly asked me how she was doing. I said great, but mentioned she is still not crawling or pulling up on her own. She took a look at my questionnaire. In the gross motor section, I was able to answer 2 out of 5 questions with a yes. She told me that this would fall into the "refer to First Steps category." For those who aren't familiar with First Steps, (I'm not really either, but know a little) it's a service provided to Indiana families with children ages 6mos-3 years. They come out to your house, assess your child in the area of concern. In Addy's case, it would be her gross motor skills. They would see if it was an actual concern, then begin developmental therapy if they qualify. They also work with mom and dad, teaching them techniques.

Kelly told me to work with Adalynn for a week on pulling up and crawling. If I don't notice an improvement, she said to go ahead and give First Steps a call. She told me that she thinks she's fine, but early intervention is key.

So, needless to say, I'm a little concerned at this point. I'm trying not to get too upset though. I know of plenty of babies who didn't crawl until 9 or 10 months old. I also know that there are babies who don't crawl at all. My brother and I never crawled. I still do think Adalynn is kind of just a lazy baby. :) She's pretty content sitting on the floor playing with toys or being held. She doesn't really see a reason to crawl anywhere, I don't think.

As far as fine motor skills (picking things up with her fingers) and speech, she is doing excellent. She says mama, dada, and bye bye. She's doing great socially too.

So, I'm going to take Kelly's advice and really work with Adalynn this week on pulling up and crawling. I told Jenna that it will be like baby boot camp. :) Just kidding though!

Deep down, I think she is just fine. I don't think she has any type of a delay. I really do think she's just slow and steady. Mommy's little laid back girl. :)

one little toofer

That's right! Adalynn got her first tooth! It's one on the bottom that just popped through today. I actually noticed it after she bit me! :) She's been wanting to chew on more things lately, which is unlike her. Plus, her nose was a little stuffy. Luckily for us, no fussiness! Yay! I think we might kind of get them all at once. Her top two are really puffy. Our little girl is growing up so fast! She's exactly 9 months and 1 week today!

Where have we been?

Oh goodness! I've been absent from the blog lately! Everything's been a little hectic lately. We've been pretty busy. I guess we were busy with a bunch of nothing though because I don't have a lot to report. I do have some cute pics to share. I promise to get on that tomorrow! Addy Cakes (I don't know if I've shared this nickname, but it always makes me smile), turned 9 months old last week! It doesn't seem possible that my baby is that old. We go for her 9 month checkup this Friday so I will share the latest stats and news. Sorry for the blogging delay! I'll do better this week!

Valentine's Day

We hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day! Adalynn wanted to share her Valentine's gift from her mommy and daddy with you! She got a glow worm! We actually kind of got it as a joke. My older brother, Nathan, and I both had a glow worm when we were little. He was OBSESSED with his. He called it his morm. Like worm with an M. Haha!

Anyway, Adalynn loves her morm!



Here she is holding her like she's her baby.



Here's mommy holding her baby, who's holding her baby!

snow angel

Adalynn had her first real experience with snow today! Even though it's already snowed a few times this winter, today was the first day we bundled her up and took her out. She only stayed out for about 10 minutes. It was really cold and windy. I think she kind of liked it though. She looked a little confused, but didn't complain about being out there with all this cold white stuff! :)

It was pretty deep!

It was a pretty fun snow day! I will not be liking this in June though when we're having all the make up days! Oh well, what can ya do? :)

J-E-L-L-O

This was one of the times today where I really wish I had the video camera handy. Adalynn was sitting in her high chair and I was sitting at the table feeding her pears and pineapples (a new favorite of hers.) I was eating red jello while feeding her. I'm limited to what I can eat right now. Trying to get over a stomach bug. Anyway, she was mesmerized by the jello. I offered her a bite, but she didn't want any part of it. So she's still staring at it the whole time. Then, I start moving the spoon around so it's jiggling all over the place. She started cracking up! She was laughing for about 7 minutes over the jiggling jello. She even got tears in her eyes she was laughing so hard. I had to give her dad a call at work so he could hear how hilarious jello is to our girl!