Back to Reality

We had a great visit with Gammy and Pop. Thomas was a definite entertainer the whole time we were there... shaking his head, making funny noises and falling into pillows! We got to see Cousin Drew and Uncle Trent and spend plenty of time in the pool. Thomas is getting better and better at moving around and can pull himself up and use furniture to walk around. Fun to watch and not so fun to try to leave him alone!

He is also depending more and more on us to help him sleep. He woke us up almost every night we were away and needs us to rock him almost totally to sleep at bedtime. Because we know he can do better than that, we did our normal bedtime routine last night, rocked him for only a couple of minutes and then put him down. He was an unhappy baby about that and let us know about it for 58 very long minutes. Fortunately he slept through the night. Though he woke us up at 6:30 this morning, he at least remembered how to get himself to sleep! Sneaky little boy to get us trained like that- good thing for us we finally caught on!

Funny!

Thomas invented a new game. Could be that we are in for it with this little monkey!

Whew!

We can hardly take a breath around here! Thank goodness Tom is here so that I have a chance to write it all down. Thomas is on the go all the time... Here's how he fell asleep the other night - mid crawl :-)


He can pull himself up on furniture completely independently


but needs some help once he's there..landings aren't too graceful yet!


In other big news - Thomas said "Da-Da" for the first time yesterday. He's saying it all the time this morning and you can only imagine that Tom will give him anything he wants now- hahaha!

New Tricks

These new tricks still don't involve sleeping past 6:30 or so in the morning, but at least he didn't wake us up in the middle of the night............

We caught him on camera showing off what he learned to do - stand up on his own!

9 month checkup

Thomas did a great job at his checkup!

weight: 21 1/2 lbs (66th percentile)
height: 30 1/3 inches (96th percentile)

He also had a vision test. It involved me holding him on my lap, having electrodes stuck on his head and a patch over one eye at a time while watching a screen with different patterns and flashing lights. Needless to say he did not enjoy it very much. The good news is that we got it done with the help of the magic pacifier and our wonderful nurse. His vision is fine and he got a good report on all his other development from the pediatrician.

He's growing up so fast!


At 3 weeks


3 months


Today

Mr. Personality

There's plenty of time to write this morning since Thomas graced us with his presence a little after 6. Tom was wonderful as usual and kept the little boy in the dark and calm so he could doze a little more. That meant I could get back in our bed and do the same. This too shall pass :-) I wanted to post these pictures from a few days ago so you could get a taste of Mr. Personality!

This is the area we set up for him...notice all the buttons and sharp corners are protected and plenty of toys are ready and available.


This is where he chose to play...on the cold hard tile with two plastic links!

Nine Months Old

Thomas is nine months old today!
He's very cute and may still be auctioned off in the near future. He's continuing to have sleep problems and we are looking forward to an end of those. Poor guy is not quite his normal charming self since he's often tired, but manages to make us laugh and reminds us that our little family is a really good one!