Fall 2013 babies - Check in

[kdubs923]

We're more than half way through August. That means summer is coming to an end... and the Fall 2013 Babies are going to be 1! Where did the year go? 

Tagging everyone that replied to the last check in, others are welcome to jump in Jalapeñomel bazinga daisy24342 runblondie26 @velar fricative pescalita pennypenny minzy fortnightlily sporklemotion glauren @rex alpineslide SallySparrow geek96 jaybird magpie thejackpot spanikopita irish panicfoot oswin SKP82 swizz

How old is your baby?
Most recent height/weight?
What milestones are they hitting?
What are your baby's current favorite toys? Books?
Are you doing a big 1st birthday celebration? Have you started planning? Theme?
Anything else to share/ask?

[Velar Fricative]

OMGWTFBBQ

How old is your baby? 10.5 months

Most recent height/weight? A few weeks ago she was 28" and 19 lbs 13 oz. I don't know what those percentiles are but I know she's on the charts somewhere.

What milestones are they hitting? I was getting worried when she was closing in on 10 months and wasn't crawling, climbing, etc. Be careful what you wish for because during the span of one weekend just before she turned 10 months, she started crawling and climbing everywhere and now she won't stop. She can stand on her own for a few seconds if I stand her up and let go. She is babbling up a storm. Teeth #3 and #4 are currently coming in. When we tell her to clap her hands, she consistently does. She's starting to shake her head "no," uh oh.

What are your baby's current favorite toys? Books? Any book that she can chew on lol. Sometimes she won't sit still when we read to her but she is fascinated while playing with books. She really likes her new Vtech push toy, her ring stacker, and stacking cups.

Are you doing a big 1st birthday celebration? Have you started planning? Theme? We had to nix our big bash because we will be closing on our new house right around her first birthday. We just asked my ILs (we'll be living with them for a month or so between our apartment sale closing and our closing for the house) if we could host a small party at their home. I think they'll say yes but if not, we'll do a small get-together at a pizza place that has a party room or something. She likes owls so I was thinking of that as a theme but otherwise theme will be "birthday."

Anything else to share/ask? Her formula intake hasn't decreased yet and it doesn't seem like it will by her first birthday. She's not eating solids all that great these days but that could be the teething. I think she's done with purees but she hasn't been eating table foods well either so who knows, even though the only "purees" we were feeding her are yogurt and applesauce. I'm kind of running out of ideas for what to feed her, I feel like we're still doing the "basics" but it's hard because DH and I aren't grand master chefs in the kitchen so we stick with the basics ourselves for meals.

[thejackpot]

Aug 20, 2014 9:25:08 GMT -5 kdubs923 said:

How old is your baby?
10 months she will be 11 mos on the 26th 

Most recent height/weight?
Bad mother moment, I can't remember her height but her weight is 22 lbs

What milestones are they hitting?
Her 3/4th teeth are poking through. She is super busy, starting to do a few steps. She talks a lot- Mama, Dada, Papa and NO! are some of her favorite words. Baby is her newest word.

What are your baby's current favorite toys? Books?
She likes a little toy that she pushes along and walks behind it.  She also has a little music box that she pushes all the time. Her favorite book seems to be Please Baby Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lee Lewis

Are you doing a big 1st birthday celebration? Have you started planning? Theme? Not sure. I need to get on it. We will celebrate it but not sure how big it will be.  I will probably do either a single color theme or a rainbow theme. We shall see.

Anything else to share/ask?

I am amazed that she is getting so big. It makes me sad since she is most likely our last but I am overjoyed because she is such a joy. I love this raspy deep laugh that she does when she is playing with her daddy and her brother. 
A real funny is she likes to put everything in her mouth so whenever you ask if she has anything in her mouth she immediately opens her mouth and says owww.

[kdubs923]

How old is your baby? 10 months tomorrow
Most recent height/weight? 21lb 2 oz (as of Sunday) 27.5 in as of his 9 month appt
What milestones are they hitting? He now has two bottom teeth, pulling up, starting to cruise a little, seems to finally understand some of what I'm saying (but not always acknowledging). He babbles Mama & Dada but I don't think he knows to connect the sounds with me or DH. He does do UH OH (he doesn't say the words, but makes a sound and copies the intonation that I do when I say uh oh). He's waving when he feels like it and claps when we say YAY! He shakes his head when we say No No No, but I can't tell if he knows what 'NO' means. He has started giving 'kisses' which is a big full on open mouth slobber that makes me melt.
What are your baby's current favorite toys? Books? He plays with this activity cube a lot, he loves to use it to pull up. He's shown interest in balls and cars lately. He loves anything that is small enough to fit in his hand that he can carry around while he crawls. The banana toothbrush is a huge hit too. His favorite book is a cheap ABC book I randomly grabbed one day. He sticks his little pointer finger out so I can move his finger to the letter as I sing the ABC's. That's about as long as he can concentrate on a book.
www.target.com/p/b-zany-zoo-wooden-activity-cube/-/A-12025312#prodSlot=medium_1_1&term=activity+cube
Are you doing a big 1st birthday celebration? Have you started planning? Theme? Anytime we get both my family & DH's together, it ends up being at least 30-40 people. We're also including a few close friends and their kids, so it might be around 50. I hate that it's so big, but they're really the closest people in our lives. We're having it at our house, just a plan old cook out. I have a vague idea of food/drinks served, but can't decide on a theme. It just might be.... birthday, lol. I need to start thinking about invitiations because I think I'll have to send them out in about a month.
Anything else to share/ask? How are your kids sleeping? DS was never an amazing sleeper, but after a month of battling ear infections... I think he's just waking out of habit now, not that he's waking up for any actual reason. I've been reading Troublesome Tots, but just can't seem to pull the trigger for CIO yet. I want things to magically fix themselves!

[geek96]

How old is your baby? 11 month 1 week
Most recent height/weight?  21lbs 12oz and 29in at 11 months
What milestones are they hitting? mimicking our movements and gestures, learning more signs
What are your baby's current favorite toys? Books? blocks and an abacus my MIL recently picked up
Are you doing a big 1st birthday celebration? Have you started planning? Theme? Mickey Mouse.  There will be about 90 guests.  So much for keeping it small like I wanted
Anything else to share/ask? This is such a fun age. DS crawls super fast behind the wall and will peek a boo from behind the wall. I just want to eat him up.

[oswin]

Fun times!

How old is your baby?
9.5 months
Most recent height/weight?
21 lbs, 29" tall
What milestones are they hitting?
Walking!!!!! She's not steady yet, but she's been taking a few steps here and there, and yesterday she took 8 steps in a row!
What are your baby's current favorite toys? Books?
Spoons! She steals them from the dishwasher whenever we give her a chance. Her favorite books are a couple with photos of babies in them.
Are you doing a big 1st birthday celebration? Have you started planning? Theme?
No plans yet, we'll probably invite the other kids in her room at daycare. Probably a Halloween theme, since it's right around then.
Anything else to share/ask?
We're working on getting her to eat more solids and less formula. Any suggestions on good solids? She eats a lot of purees, animal crackers, and rice chex.

[Velar Fricative]

panicfoot - For a while recently DD would be super squirmy and mad during diaper changes but lately she's been content. I hope it lasts but I figure we're just getting into that time of babies not wanting to lie still.

kdubs923 - Sleep is good for us. We did Ferber at 5.5 months so things have gone pretty well for us since then. However, she is teething so she's woken up occasionally and doesn't move from sleep cycle to sleep cycle 100% smoothly like she used to, but she's still able to settle herself back to sleep. Another however, after Ferber we were very lucky in that we'd put her in her crib at bedtime and she'd roll right over and fall asleep. Lately she doesn't fall asleep right away but after 15-20 minutes of babbling and playing with her lovey she settles down and goes to sleep.

Oh! And she finally takes consistent naps! Only took 9+ months for her to decide falling asleep for naps in her crib is not for the birds lol.

[kdubs923]

panicfoot
We have the same problem with diaper changes. I swear it happened overnight! He just full on freaks out. It helps if I give him something random to hold, the butt cream tube or a brush/comb. But he's so squirmy and angry. If you were listening from another room, you'd think I was torturing him.

[daisy24342]

Aug 20, 2014 9:25:08 GMT -5 kdubs923 said:

How old is your baby?  11 months on the 25th
Most recent height/weight?  I think 29' tall, and 22 lbs as of last week.  He seems so much bigger than that!  I am 7 months pregnant and its so hard for me to carry him!
What milestones are they hitting? Crawling, pullng up, walking behind something, standing on own for a few seconds.  We call him the hurricane because he is into EVERYTHING.  Only two teeth still, I am waiting for others to come in because he eats A LOT of regular food, and I will feel better about choking if he had more teeth.  No talking yet  LOTS of babble, and "dada dada dada" but he says that to everything.  Starting hugging and "kssing" recently.  Super cute
What are your baby's current favorite toys? Books? Balls....he loves balls, and throwing.  He actually has a good arm already!  Fav book is Good Night Gorilla and Llama Llama Nighty Night
Are you doing a big 1st birthday celebration? Have you started planning? Theme? Nothing big....we are moving to DC in 10 days, so its a bit nutty.  My parents will probably come down, and we have some family/friends in the area we will have over, but probably only like 10 people, probably just BBQ and Cake, no real theme unless i get motivated!
Anything else to share/ask? Naps....my kiddo turned into a good napper after we sleep trained naps in Map.  Last two days, morning nap either hasn't happened or happened after LOTS of crying.  Is he getting ready to drop it already? I was hoping to hold onto it a little longer!
Bottles......in preparation for switching to milk, what are people doing?  Milk in bottle or sippy cup?  We have a cup he uses for water but we still use the nipple on it (probably should switch to the spout).  What are you all doing for this?

[daisy24342]

Aug 20, 2014 10:01:54 GMT -5 panicfoot said:

Aug 20, 2014 9:57:40 GMT -5 kdubs923 said:

panicfoot
We have the same problem with diaper changes. I swear it happened overnight! He just full on freaks out. It helps if I give him something random to hold, the butt cream tube or a brush/comb. But he's so squirmy and angry. If you were listening from another room, you'd think I was torturing him.

Yes, omg. And I think HE thinks I'm torturing him. It's the WORST. I do give him things to hold and that helps sometimes, but usually he just fights. How are babies so strong?!

Yes yes yes..... Im always lookng for new "items" to let him hold to distract him.  FOr the past month or so DH has been home in transition before new job, and it has taken both of us to change a dirty diaper!  yuuck.....

[soozy87]

Aug 20, 2014 9:25:08 GMT -5 kdubs923 said:

Z is about 9.5 months

19 lbs, 3 oz., 28 inches as of his 9 month appointment

He is army crawling, eating table food like crazy

Favorite toys - he loves anything that is not his toy - cords, A/C vents, he loves opening and closing cupboards

Planning a 1st Birthday party - Winnie the Pooh and Tacos Too!

[Velar Fricative]

daisy24342 - DD loves her bottles and doesn't care for sippy/straw cups at all yet, so I anticipate that we will first have to start with WCM in bottles and then try and make the switch shortly after that.

[anelms]

How old is your baby? J is 10 months
Most recent height/weight? 18 lbs 27in at 9 month appointment

What milestones are they hitting? He is crawling like crazy and starting to reliably call us mama and dada. Loves food and is getting really good at eating. His sleep is slowly improving. We are getting to about 1 wakeup a night. We get up really early though, by 6. He doesn't seem to want to wave or clap but I'm working on it.

What are your baby's current favorite toys? Books? Loves books especially flap books. Dear zoo is a huge hit. His favorite toys are the dogs toys and their water bowl

Are you doing a big 1st birthday celebration? Have you started planning? I have started planning we are doing a monster theme. I'm catering chick fil a and hiring a house cleaner beforehand. I want to enjoy it and not be stressed so this is my solution.

Anything else to share/ask?

[bazinga]

How old is your baby? She will be 9 months on the 23rd.

Most recent height/weight? I weighed her at home last weekend around 17 lbs. She hasn't been officially weighed and measured since six months and we don't have her nine month appointment until early September.

What milestones are they hitting? She started crawling a week or so ago and is really picking up speed! She has her two bottom teeth and I think she might be getting some more because she is drooling all the time. She has started waving and saying hi to people (or dogs, cats and random objects). It is the cutest thing!

What are your baby's current favorite toys? Books? She doesn't really have favorites. Anything she can put in her mouth is good. And anything that makes noise or plays music. She likes to wave her arms around and bounce like she is dancing.

Are you doing a big 1st birthday celebration? Have you started planning? Theme? I'm not sure what we are doing for her birthday. It is right around Thanksgiving so that makes it a little tough because people are always so busy and most of our family and friends don't live close by. Her birthday is on a Sunday so we may have some neighbors over for a football game and have some snacks and cake. We will probably celebrate with grandma and grandpa around Thanksgiving too.

Anything else to share/ask? What are the benefits to her having a lovey? She isn't really attached to any blankets, stuffed animals, etc. She pretty much only uses her pacifier in the crib and I realized that it may be her lovey. Is it worth giving her a little blanket or something in her crib? She has been a good sleeper since she was about 4 months old.

[bazinga]

Also, add me to the list of squirmy/screaming babies during diaper changes. I don't know why they get so upset? I also give her things to hold in an attempt to distract her, but it rarely works.

[Velar Fricative]

bazinga - I thought for sure DD wouldn't care for a lovey but I figured I'd try giving her one at bedtime once she appeared to not want to fall asleep right away. It hasn't totally helped in that regard but sometimes when she cries because she doesn't want to go to bed it makes her feel better to just lie there and play with it. She's had one for a couple of weeks now. I do not think there is any benefit to it unless your baby suddenly isn't sleeping so well and you think it might help.

[glauren]

I love these check ins!

How old is your baby?
 10 months
Most recent height/weight?
 At his 9 month appointment, he was 29.5 inches at 20lbs 11oz
What milestones are they hitting?
He's been pulling up and cruising since he was 7 months old, but he just started officially crawling a couple of weeks ago! He claps whenever he's happy/excited, and waves indiscriminately at both people and inanimate objects. He's babbling up a storm, but no real words yet! He still doesn't have any teeth - am I the only one with a toothless wonder??
What are your baby's current favorite toys? Books?
 He enjoys anything he can pull up on and stuffed animals. He's a big fan of bubbles, too. Sometimes he'll sit through a book (Bear Snores On and Pete the Cat and his Four Groovy Buttons), but rarely.
Are you doing a big 1st birthday celebration? Have you started planning? Theme?
 Yeah, our families are huge so it'll be big. We're doing it on his actual birthday during the football game (go Bears!), so we're having a tailgating theme. Just at our house, nothing too fancy. But wings and pulled pork! Yum!
Anything else to share/ask?
 Like many PPs, he's not eating a lot of solids. Any food suggestions? He's finally gagging less, but not having teeth makes breaking things down harder, I think.

[glauren]

Add me to the list of squirmy/screaming babies during diaper changes!
And kdubs923 we night weaned and sleep trained just after 9 months. He's still not STTN consistently, but it has happened once or twice! It's a work in progress for sure. I can tell you what we did if that helps, but I know every baby is sooooo different with this stuff.

[holly116]

How old is your baby? DS2 turned 11 months last Sunday.

Most recent height/weight? He's around 22 lbs.

What milestones are they hitting? He's pulling up constantly and has been crawling all over the place. He has two words mama and dada, and lots of sounds. Amazing the differences between him and my older two. He's a lot more motivated and hitting things much earlier. We weaned directly to WCM and had his first hair cut this week and he had his first dentist appointment last week. Lots of things happening all the sudden.

What are your baby's current favorite toys? Books? He loves anything he can get his hands on to chew on. Toys he can pull up on are favorites right now - FP laugh and learn table and farm. All the noisy plastic.

Are you doing a big 1st birthday celebration? Have you started planning? Theme? I need to get invites out ASAP. We've done a big blow out for the other two on their 1st so Ds2's will be no exception. We're doing the very hungry caterpillar theme.

Anything else to share/ask?

[fortnightlily]

11 months and change

Not sure of height, weight hovering around the 20lb mark.

He walks holding hands or pushing something, babbles a lot but no words yet, and is maybe *maybe* starting to understand sign/symbols and not just mimic them back. Though he makes the milk symbol kind of spontaneously. And shakes his head 'no' a lot when I'm not sure he always means it.

Favorite toys are things with buttons that we don't want him playing with, ha! But other than that he loves throwing and fetching balls and rings. Hasn't shown any preference for having certain books read to him, though he always beelines for pulling down Peter Pan off the shelf.

We'll do a party. Nothing too big, just at the house. No theme. Haven't really started planning, other than thinking about the flavor of cake I want to bake.

[fortnightlily]

Aug 20, 2014 9:42:12 GMT -5 panicfoot said:

Aug 20, 2014 9:25:08 GMT -5 kdubs923 said:

Does anyone else's kiddo scream and fight with diaper/clothes changes? I'm wondering if he has a negative association from all his ear infections or something because JESUS CHRIST. That is getting super old.

Um, yes!  Unless it's his morning bottle, diaper and clothing changes are a wrestling-match please-god-let's-not-smear-poo somewhere brawl.  And DS has had no ear infections.  I think he's just all "ain't nobody got time for that".

[my4girls]

How old is your baby? 10 months on Sunday
Most recent height/weight? I forget height but weight was 15 something. She's tiny
What milestones are they hitting? pulling herself up to standing, just got her first two teeth
What are your baby's current favorite toys? Books? anything she finds on the floor. lol
Are you doing a big 1st birthday celebration? Have you started planning? Theme? yes! we do larger first birthdays and then just dinner for the rest. Probably little pumpkin theme
Anything else to share/ask?

[AlpineSlide]

How old is your baby? DS will be 9 months next Wed.
Most recent height/weight? 26 pounds, not sure on height but at least 28"
What milestones are they hitting? crawling super fast, pulling up, cruising, and trying to stand without holding on.
What are your baby's current favorite toys? Books? ball popper, activity table. books - he just likes to chew on them and doesn't seem to care about looking at the pages while I read. He does like the Touch and Feel Farm Animals book though.
Are you doing a big 1st birthday celebration? Have you started planning? Theme? haven't given it any thought yet. His bday is the day before Thanksgiving so we might just have cake and take pictures then.
Anything else to share/ask? I'm amazed that DS doesn't have any teeth yet! I've been seeing other babies get their teeth (starting around 5 months) and would like to know when DS's will show up. lol
eating solids is not going great. he will not be spoon-fed purees so I've moved on to BLW.

[anelms]

J is also a toothless wonder. I didn't cut teeth till after a year so I'm not too surprised

[rex]

How old is your baby?: 11 months today!

Most recent height/weight?: she was 19lb recently at her appointment for croup. they didn't measure her but i am going to today. i predict 30". she's had a huge growth spurt in height since 9m.

What milestones are they hitting?: all of them? i don't know what they are specifically but she can talk (a lot), walk, stand independently, get from sitting to standing w/ no support. she has 2.5 teeth.

she eats far more solids than formula at this point. she's always loved solids but now im lucky if i get 15oz of formula in her. she eats 3 full meals and 2 snacks of food per day though so i'm not worried.

What are your baby's current favorite toys? Books?: toys: balls, always balls. she also loves books. she will sit and play with them for a good 30 min.

books: 10 little ladybugs.

Are you doing a big 1st birthday celebration?: not big, but we are doing one.

Have you started planning?: there isn't much to plan but invitations have been sent. we are having it at an awesome park near me so it's minimal stress i still have no idea what we are buying her.

Theme?: no theme, i picked colors i like and am buying plates & napkins in those colors.

anything else?: anyone else have a climber? L climbs anything and everything and then thinks it's fun to fall off. daredevil!

[rex]

Aug 20, 2014 10:01:54 GMT -5 panicfoot said:

Aug 20, 2014 9:57:40 GMT -5 kdubs923 said:

panicfoot
We have the same problem with diaper changes. I swear it happened overnight! He just full on freaks out. It helps if I give him something random to hold, the butt cream tube or a brush/comb. But he's so squirmy and angry. If you were listening from another room, you'd think I was torturing him.

Yes, omg. And I think HE thinks I'm torturing him. It's the WORST. I do give him things to hold and that helps sometimes, but usually he just fights. How are babies so strong?!

changing L's diaper is like wrestling an alligator. and she's FAST so before i blink she's crawled into another room with no diaper.

[SallySparrow]

Guys!! How are our babies almost toddlers?!

A is 11 months and a couple weeks. She is standing up on her own, without pulling up on anything. She walks while holding on to things. No independent steps yet.

She's 28in and 21lbs as of a couple days ago when we checked her here.

She loves toys that make noise. She also loves her rocking horse. She will actually sit still and let you read to her (short books, of course). She finally has four teeth. She says "mama", "dada" and "ah don" (all done), but I'm not always sure she knows what they mean. Especially "all done", since she'll say it and then put another handful of food in her mouth.

DH and I both took the week of labor day off because all our birthdays fall in that week. We're doing a small cookout for A's party. Colors are turquoise and yellow. I'm making her cake, topped with these candy butterflies I make. And her babysitter is making this ridiculously adorable tutu outfit for her.

I am so ready for that week off. Not so much for her to be 1. Or for me to turn 30. Eep!!

[Jalapeñomel]

10+ months!

28.5 in and 20.5 lbs

He rolls everywhere, army crawls, and pulls up, but still zero interest in crawling...I don't think he will end up crawling. He does a lot of babbling, especially BABABABA and lots of screeching at the top of his lungs, but no real words

He loves his dinosaur ball popping thingy and this dog that talks to him.

We don't have any family in the area, and I don't really have any friends in the neighborhood to invite to his first birthday (tell me that I shouldn't be too depressed about this, because I know he won't remember it...but it makes me super sad).

I've decided to stop pumping when I go to my classroom in the fall. I will transition to milk. I'm still breastfeeding a lot, and I am pushing solids best that I can.

glauren D still has no teeth and no signs of teeth (and I'm ok with that).

[Jalapeñomel]

Aug 20, 2014 21:04:20 GMT -5 pennypenny said:

Aug 20, 2014 21:03:01 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

From how small he started, I cannot believe he is so big. Aww.

The doctor told me yesterday that she cannot believe he was premature, and that she honestly believes he is completely caught up.  I cried a little...it's been a helluva ride!

[magpie]

Hi guys! Glad to see all the fall babies!

How old is your baby? 10+ months
Most recent height/weight? 30 inches, 21.1 pounds
What milestones are they hitting? She started crawling at 9 months, pulling up, cruising, saying "Uh oh" (twice in context of knocking something over), understanding a lot more of what we say, trilling, waving bye bye, and STTN (my favorite!). She also has 5 teeth.

What are your baby's current favorite toys? Books?
She really likes a really simple ball that I got for her. We play pass the ball a lot. She's also really into her "Let's Get Talking" word book. She's also into Where's Spot.

Are you doing a big 1st birthday celebration? Have you started planning? Theme?
Anything else to share/ask?
Just starting to plan for this. It'll probably be family and a few close friends. The only reason it'll be a "big" event is because family will be traveling to attend. No theme yet, though we might do owls (we are owl people, ha!).