LA went to the doctor for her 4 month appoint today. The tale of the tape is as follows:
Length: 25 ¾ in - 95th Percentile
Weight: 14lbs 11oz – 75th Precentile
Head: 15in – 20th Precentile
Everything looks good and the doctor is pleased with her progress. We are going to start with foods this week. That should be interesting since her natural reaction is to lick everything and stick her tongue out. It is rice cereal to start with one time a day and then two times a day and eventually three times a day. From there it will be vegetables then fruits one color at a time following the same pattern.
She got her second round of shots and cried a little bit, but was a big girl. It was a little easier for mommy and daddy this time. Her next appointment will be at six months.
Miscellaneous
*Kerrick tried to kiss her (Evidently, I am going to have to talk to him and I put her on restriction from her playmate for 3 days)
*She is talking and even has a learned to yell a little bit
*She has laughed
*She has had two bouts of a head cold (took her to the doctor the first time)
Christmas
Aubrey got to celebrate her first Christmas. Unfortunately, she was only about 3.5 months old and didn’t know any difference between a normal day and Christmas day. Next year will be a little different but Santa did come see her and she got clothes, bibs, CD Player, Piggy Bank and a lamp. The economic situation must have hurt Santa because the piggy bank wasn’t loaded down with money.
We spent the late morning and afternoon at Grandma and Aube’s house with my sister’s family. The evening was with LA’s family. LA’s family rotates based on age and it was LA and my time to host. Tight quarters and semi-organized chaos would be an understatement. It was a long day but we survived and we had a great time. It was good to be able to spend time with both of our families on Christmas day. We are fortunate and blessed.
Rolling Over
Aubrey has started rolling over and her first roll over is pretty funny. LA and I were both home the first time she rolled over from back to front. It was the day after Christmas. Anyway, Aubrey and I were downstairs hanging out. She was having some daddy time. She was on her back and she rolled over and I didn’t think much about it. Later on Aubrey and I went upstairs to see mommy and I asked LA “if it was a big deal that Aubrey had rolled over from her back to her front”. I quickly learned that it was a BIG DEAL. Evidently, it is a milestone. LA wasn’t too happy about me not calling her downstairs. A little while later I am in the kitchen and I hear LA and Aubrey playing and LA is trying to get Aubrey to turnover. It was funny to hear LA trying to convince her to do it again. I think she finally rolled over but she wasn’t too happy about it. She is getting better at it but she still isn’t to hipped up on being on her tummy except when she has just finished a bottle and is tired.
Baptism
Aubrey was baptized on December 21, 2009 at Bethany UMC. It was truly a special day and was a reminder to LA and me of the responsibility that we have in raising Aubrey. We have had and continue to be surrounded by Godly family and friends that will help us along the way. Aubrey wore Leigh-Ann’s christening dress which was special but we couldn’t have waited much longer or Aubrey would not have fit in the dress. Aubrey was good throughout the entire service. She was alert and awake during the baptism. She didn’t even cry or flinch when they put the water on her. She fell asleep shortly after the baptism. We had three pews full of family and plenty of friends throughout the church.
LA and I had cleaned the house, porch and decorated the downstairs with all our Christmas decorations and had all the family over for lunch. Fortunately, the weather held off and we were able to use the porch for overflow seating.
It was a Great Day that we will remember forever for our family and friends and commitments we made.
The funniest part of the day really didn’t even have anything to with the baptism. After everyone except Nana and Gramps had left LA was playing with Aubrey and she began sticking her tongue out and wow, she has a long tongue and she would be talking while she would stick it out. Check out the video. Maybe, we should send it into America’s funniest videos.
Christmas Tree Tradition
Our first two Christmases, LA and I have purchased a Frasier Fur from the local missions committee at our church but this year we missed the deadline and would have to get one on our own. We planned all week that we would go and get a tree on a Saturday afternoon. I went and got my trailer to make it easier to carry and about 30 minutes prior to leaving we began to talk about where we were going to get a tree and LA begins to talking about going to Jedburg and Ridgeville and I begin to inquire why we had to go all the way out there to get a tree. We were on the wrong page – LA was talking about going an cutting our own tree at the Christmas tree farm and I was talking about going the Christmas tree lots around town like I had done for every year before we started purchasing them from the church. I had never gone and cut a Christmas tree down. When I heard what LA was expecting it explained a lot about the comments she had been making to me – starting a family tradition with Aubrey, don’t forget the camera…etc. After my wife finished cracking on me and my version of a “family tradition” of riding around town to find a tree, we loaded up in the car and started searching. At our second stop “Creech’s” on Bacon Bridge Road we found a lovely tree that was “fresh cut” (probably about one-two weeks ago). So we didn’t go cut a tree down but we did have fun and a few laughs and created some memories. Maybe next year we will go and cut a tree down.
Thanksgiving 08
LA, Aubrey, Grandma, Aube and I went to my sister’s house in Savannah for Thanksgiving. This was a first for us, since for the past 41 years of my life we have either been at my grandmother’s house, aunt’s house or at the beach house. I figured it would be interesting and worst case scenario was that we would have to stop at Cracker Barrel on the way home – it was a win/win for me. My nephew Carter and his girlfriend Katie Parks (KP) got to see and hold Aubrey for the first time. We had a good time that day and everyone got to hold her and we watched the Detroit Lions get killed. My sister out did herself and the food was very good. It was kind of disappointing that I didn’t get to stop at Cracker Barrel but there will be other days.
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