Baby T from A to Z: April 2013

While Robby has been doing great... it's been a rough month for him! Robby never had an illness the first 8 months of his life. Within this past month, he's had pink eye that turned out to be part of a viral throat infection, then a double ear infection, a stomach bug that had him vomiting with diarrhea, then he came down with a nasty cold that ended with another ear infection. Poor baby! Building up that immune system I suppose... hopefully we're on the mend!

Robby had his 9 month check-up and weighs 23lbs, 11oz and is 30in long! (We've had an appointment since then... where he measured over 24lbs and 31in long... so he's somewhere around there and definitely growing like a weed!) Doctor says he's going to be a tall boy. He is currently in 18 month clothes- and growing out of them. He has two teeth on the bottom, but no sign of more as of right now! Robby loves to clap (especially when you clap first), do 'So big!', and give high fives. He's also starting to give kisses (open mouth, tongue out half the time). He's eating 3 'meals' a day and is mostly eating finger foods. He loves to feed himself finger foods- but continues to love eating from a spoon and 'feeding himself' from the spoon. He had his first taste of meat- ground turkey- and LOVED it! He really eats a much larger variety of foods now, which he of course loves. This kid pounds food like you've never seen! We've also introduced a few foods with milk baked-in: eggless French toast and a few bites of dinner rolls at a restaurant. He broke out a little bit on his face, but overall was able to handle a small amount pretty well! We still have to be careful of what we give him and can't give him a large amount of food with baked-in dairy, but we're getting there! So far we've added into our repertoire: blueberries, plums, beets, brown-rice toast, avocado (he's been eating it for a while, but will once again eat it plain- it's one of his favorite finger foods, along with carrots), lentils (doesn't love these, but he will eat a small amount mixed with other foods), broccoli, black beans, and green beans (again, not his favorite, but will eat it mixed with other foods). I'm sure there are more foods he's tasted or had small amounts of that I didn't list, but those are the consistent ones! He also loves drinking from his straw cup so much that he's decided day-time bottles are a thing of the past!

Robby is officially crawling! At right about 9 and 1/2 months he just started to crawl a few 'steps'... and within a few days he was getting the coordination down and really able to crawl! Even though he wasn't crawling prior to that... he was still extremely mobile! He could get at anything he wanted by rolling, sitting up, flipping to the other side while sitting, getting on all fours, launching himself forward, and repeating it all over and over. He's so happy now that he can quickly get to whatever he wants by crawling. Robby also will pull himself to standing using anything low to the ground- and kind of stand in a downward-dog position. :) He tries so hard to pull himself to standing into an upright position... he's still working on that.

We took an unexpected trip home this month. And while Robby got to see his family and took his first trip to the park, it unfortunately was a sad visit. My grandma, Robby's Omi, passed away unexpectedly. We will miss her more than words can possibly express, but we are so fortunate that she was able to be a part of Robby's life for his first 9 months. We know she loved him with all her heart and we all loved her with all ours.