Pitter Patter?

Not quite, but this little munchkin is now 11 months old. She is getting close to walking, but I keep telling myself that she needs to get much stronger before she can free herself from the couch cruising. I am sure I will live happily in that denial right up until she turns away from the furniture and walks across the room.

In other news, Charlotte is officially teething. Her two bottom, front teeth are making their painful debut as I type this post. She has been doing fairly well with it, but there have been a few times in the last few days that nothing, NOTHING, would make her feel better and we just had to cry it out.

I can't believe we are one month away from her first birthday. Where does the time go?

We like to throw Cheerios to the dog

That pretty much sums up our life right now. Charlotte spends most of her time trying to get into things she shouldn't be getting into and doing things just to see how we will react.

She is 10 months old now. 10 Months! Everyday I think, wow she is growing up so fast. I wonder when that stops? My guess is, it doesn't.

She is pulling up on everything and cruising the furniture. A few days ago she let go of the couch to balance. That didn't work out so well for her, but I am sure she will be trying again before we know it. Don't be surprised if she is walking by her first birthday. I am pretty sure she heard the doctor say she wouldn't be doing that and decided to prove her wrong....again.

Enjoy the photos. The last one was taken at Charlotte's baptism.

Happy fall to everyone.
Katie, Aaron, and Charlotte

Well, that didn't take long.......

Sigh.

Addendum

I just realized I left out a very important piece of information from my previous post.

Dr. Sidiki was extremely surprised that Charlotte has only had one little bug since coming home almost 7 months ago. She told me that in her experience, most children Charlotte's age have had at least 6 different bugs or sick spells, which made her curious about how we were socializing Charlotte. After I assured her we had not locked ourselves in a bubble for the last 7 months, she gave me a verbal pat on the back, telling me that she was very impressed.

All of that to say, thanks a million friends and family, for helping us keep Charlotte healthy and relatively bug free. All of those healthy months have helped her grow bigger and stronger so that when the nasty RSV season comes around, she will be better prepared.

High five everybody.

9 Month Check-up

Charlotte had her 9 month check up today. Dr. Sidiki was extremely happy with her developmental progress, pegging her at 8 months, instead of her corrected 6 months. We were really happy to hear that. Charlotte impressed everyone with an array of her newly acquired talents and then promptly gave them all her stink eye after getting her shot. She now weighs 15 pounds and 4 ounces, which puts her in the 25-50% for her corrected age of six months. That was the only thing we weren't thrilled with, Dr. Sidiki wants to see a little more weight. No cause for concern, but I don't think we will be taking her off the higher calorie formula anytime soon. She also still has a ginormous head with it falling in the 90-97% corrected, 50-75% actual age! That means her head is as large or larger than 50-75% of other 9 month old babies. Crazy.

After her appointment, we went over to the hospital to see some of our favorite doctors, therapists, and nurses. I try to make it over there any time we are in the medical center. We just love showing Charlotte off and those folks work awfully hard to get and keep so many babies healthy, they like to see the success stories. We were really excited to see our all time favorite nurse AND we found out that she will be going to work for our doctor group next month. That means we will get to see her every month starting in October because we will be taking C in to get her RSV shots :( Not fun, but necessary.

Developmentally, Charlotte is crawling and pulling up....on everything, even unstable things. Bumps, bruises, and scrapes are here to stay for awhile. She only pulls up to a kneeling position, but I think that is just because she hasn't figured out she has to grab higher to be able to stand up all the way. I am sure that is not far behind. She hasn't really started speaking yet, but she does repeat certain sounds, like she is trying to speak. Although, the other day, I was admonishing her with a "No Ma'am" for doing something she had been told not to do and she looked at me sweetly, laughed, and parroted "No Ma'am" right back at me, same inflection and all. Let me tell you, I should get an award for not laughing.

Signing off for now,
The Agnew Clan

8 Months? What?

Yes, Charlotte is 8 months old! This little smarty pants is dangerously close to being a full blown crawler, as you can see below.


She scoots like greased lightening, but the crawling coordination isn't quite there yet. It is coming though, soon.

She is also eating three different veggies and in a few days we will be trying fruit. Maybe a banana? Who knows. Luckily, (knock wood) she hasn't turned her nose up at anything we have given her.

We are seeing her personality more and more these days. As my mother would say, she has two little horns propping up her halo. Most of the time she is as sweet as she can be, but every once in awhile she has to push the boundaries. I know this is normal kid stuff, but it is so fun to watch first hand.

What a great adventure the last eight months have been for us. Trying at times, but I wouldn't change it for the world. Until the next update....

Newsflash!

Charlotte found the baby we keep in the cabinet...

and she's in love.

I guess I should mention that I put her on the floor roughly ten feet from this spot, and when I came back from the kitchen, this is where she was. The scooting has been kicked into high gear.