Unskinny Bop

Another 2 months come and gone. That can only mean one thing...Doctor's visit!!

Mark and I made bets on to what percentile T would be in for weight this time around. The Price Is Right Rules were in effect. I'm happy (or sad) to say we both lost. Mark said she'd be at the 22nd percentile, I held out hope and said 30th. Not even close.

So here are the 6 month stats:

Head - 43cm or 63rd percentile (up from 41 cm/53rd percentile last visit) - she's gonna be a smart one!!

Length - 26.5 inches or 80th percentile (both the nurse and Dr. prefaced this with saying they think they over measured her last month - 26 inches or 97th percentile..quite a drop if it is true, but more likely there was a misreading or a toe point while measuring they said!) - so still tall.

Weight (drum roll please) - a whopping 13 pounds 12 oz or 9th percentile. Yes you read that correctly 9th. I am not sure where any of the food we give her is going... maybe to her head? The kid eats 6 times a day PLUS rice cereal!! So now we get to spend even more of the day feeding her! In addition to her regular 6 meals, she will now have 2 cereals AND a vegetable. By her 9 month check up the kid's going to weigh 30 pounds!! Or 15 pounds at the rate she's been going.

She is healthy, happy and developing a-ok. She's just a skinny minny. Now if someone can just find me a brand of pants that has the waist of a 3 month old and the length of a 6-9 month old, we'll be in business! One other positive from this visit...no new prescriptions to have filled! Yay!! And no shots at the 9 month check up! She does have to go back next month for part 2 of the flu shot, but that's better than a visit with 4 shots!

At least she's got some cool hair though! Who says mohawks aren't all the rage?

Toasty Warm

Who doesn't love cute, warm, seasonal pj's?

A Week of Firsts

Given it's T's first Christmas, we had to capture her opening her very first Christmas present.

I know it's not Christmas yet, and I hate opening Christmas presents before Christmas, but as you'll see, it was necessary for T to open this one early since we live in Minnesota.

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Farmer!! I think she will do just fine on Christmas morning!

T also had the obligatory visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus at the annual ward Christmas party. She gave the old guy a few hard stares, but we are happy to report there were no screams, no tears and no looks of sheer terror! We'll see if that lasts.

No Place Like Home

One might think the reason for the posting hiatus would be that there is no time with an almost 6 month old...that would be a good reason, but it would be wrong in this case. No posts = nothing to post about.

Life is about the same...T can roll really well, although she is still not good with the whole stomach back to her back roll, but she is working on it. She's getting better at sitting, not an expert but she can hold her own for a little longer every day. She's still drool-y and chewy, but no teeth, so either she is taking her sweet time teething, she isn't teething, or she just like to drool and chew...I mean she is Mark's kid, right?

We got some professional pics taken, of course one of us didn't feel like being our regular smiley self, so not a lot of smiley shots were captured. Unfortunately the CD doesn't want to come up on our computer so I can't post any of the pics for you. I am working on alleviating that problem.

T had a good Thanksgiving; she got to visit with Grandma and Grandpa Farmer AND got to go shopping for 2 whole days!! Of course she scored herself some cute things so it was all worth it.

Other than that now we're just hanging out getting ready for Christmas. T gets to go on her second flight in a few weeks...we will see how that goes, hopefully as well as it did last time! Luckily it's a direct flight into Idaho, not sure a layover would go over well - Mark doesn't handle them too well! :o)
She also has her 6 month check up in a couple of weeks, so I can update you on her stats then, as exciting as that is. We can take bets as to how her weight gain has increased as compared to her height if anyone would like to wager a guess. Luckily she has filled out a bit since this picture was taken months ago!

It's pretty exciting over at our house - feel free to stop by if you're in the area!