9 month wellness checkup

 
There he is… my little almost walker. He took even more steps last night… that video is from the weekend. I can’t believe that he is almost walking already. It’s crazy. When did my son grow up? He is going to be 1 in less then 3 months… it’s crazy.

He had his 9 month well check up today. He is perfect. Makes me proud to hear the pediatrician say that he is perfect and that I’m doing a good job. I brought in my list of all the food he is now eating and when we introduced it. She said that it was an amazing thing that I was keeping such close track of it. Go me and my overprotective mothering lol.

He is 29 inches long! Can you believe it… almost 3 feet tall and he isn’t even 1 yet. He is also 20.6 pounds! I’m glad about that because that means when he is 1 we can move him to the foreward facing convertible carseat. He is getting tired of facing the back. He keeps trying to turn himself so that he can see me when I drive. Only 3 months to go and he will be in the big boy seat. He is average for head circumference, average for weight( he was a little under average but now he is good) and for height he is now a little above average. His heart and lungs sound great, his ears are clear, his skin looks great, his privates are good, he has a good grab reflex. She said that he is sitting up very well and then I told her about the walking. She asked if he can stand by himself so I stood him up and he just stood there watching her and she was making such a big deal about him standing. He swayed for a second and she put her arms out to catch him but he fixed his balance and just kept standing there. She was very excited…. said that he is way ahead of the game. The only thing she is a little concerned about is his lack of speech. He still doesn’t talk. He baby babbles ALL the time but he doesn’t say real words or say them at the right time. He says dadadada all the time but never at Chris and he can say mamamama but not to me so he has the ability, he just hasn’t put 2 and 2 together yet. I’m sure it will come and he is a boy and they pick up language later and get the physical stuff early and he is doing all the physical stuff he is supposed to do and then some. I’m just anxious to hear him talk I guess.

But he is perfect, eating well, sleeping better, trying to walk. He is amazing! *squee* I love my little sweetie boy!

I’m so proud of him.

But ok…. enough proud mommy bragging haha.

We are going to be in NJ in about 2 weeks, no… less then that. I can’t believe it. Hubba has to work this Saturday in order to get everything done because this deployment is coming up fast. And still… STILL is hasn’t sunk in that he is leaving. I’m still not sad, I’m not breaking down and crying… I’m just ready. I’m ready for it to start… I’m ready to get going. The sooner it starts the sooner we can start the journey toward him coming home.

We were looking at houses again. I’m really excited about his homecoming because hopefully we will be moving into our own house with all the money we are going to make off of this deployment.

And I think that we are going to be able to be in a much better financial situation once we move. I’m hoping to take care of our money situation while Chris is deployed, pay off the last couple of things and find out what I can about real estate since I know NOTHING about buying a house lol.

There is so much that is going to be going on in the next year… I’m ready to tackle it all! I’m ready.

… don’t be afraid, sometimes they come true! … music is my life