Nine Months
Today is Sydney's nine-month birthday. As usual, she got her picture taken with Fievel.
My goodness is she getting huge. She is wearing her twelve-month clothes now without any problem.
The outfit she's in there is the one she got for Christmas. It's actually an 18-month outfit. The legs and sleeves are rolled up a little on her. The cute sweater is almost too short for her torso.
It's another three months to Sydney's next scheduled doctor appointment. Until then we weigh and measure her as best we can here at home. We haven't weighed her recently, but we did try to measure her over this past weekend. With all her squirming, we figured she's about 32 inches long.
I looked up a length and weight chart online. (It's in a .pdf format so you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open it.) You can find it here if you'd like to see it.
According to that chart the 95th-percentile in length for a nine-month old baby is just over 29 inches. Thirty-two inches is the 95th percentile for 14-month old babies. It's about normal (50th percentile) for 19-month old babies. (Not to say Sydney isn't normal.)
Wow!
Did I mention that Sydney is getting huge?
Sydney is quickly outdistancing Fievel. I think her one-year birthday will be the last Fievel picture taken together. At least for the regular length comparison. He may well get into some future pictures here and there.
Since a few months ago I have also been taking the monthly pictures of Sydney and Fievel sitting together on our bed. This month is no different, except I threw an octopus in the mix, too. It's the large octopus from the My-Oh-My Octopi that Sydney got for Christmas. (See the last post.)
In other news, have I mentioned that Sydney knows the cameras when they get pulled out? The digital camera or the video camera, it doesn't matter. She knows them, she hears them beep when they turn on and she watches Mommy or Daddy intently while they point them at her.
She doesn't have a concept of what they do, of course. She doesn't know that Mommy and Daddy want her to continue doing the cute things she's doing to they can record them. But she knows that Mommy and Daddy usually want her to smile when those weird, beeping (and sometimes flashing) things are being pointed at her.
(Amazingly, with these pictures she didn't spend the whole time staring at me. She stared at me as I tried to get her to smile, then as soon as I pressed the button to snap the picture she turned her head. They're still great pictures!)
Her two bottom teeth have come in. She still crams fingers into her mouth so we think some back teeth are coming in now. But since she would barely let us look at her bottom front teeth when they were coming in we're having a hard time being able to see if she has back teeth coming in.
Sydney's first birthday is April 5. That's a Wednesday. For all the relatives that will be coming out, we're planning on having the party the weekend before that. Probably on Saturday, April 1. (No joke. Really.)
Anne and I are taking vacation time for a week and a half after that and we'll be packing up Sydney and heading off somewhere. We're not sure where yet and we're not sure when and for how long. But we will be taking some sort of trip.
Relatives that will be staying are certainly welcome to stay at the house as long as you need. We figure you'll be renting a car and will be driving yourself back to the airport. So if you stay a day or two without us here it isn't a problem. (It might not be your ideal circumstance since you probably want to see Sydney as much as possible, but sorry.)
So make your plans and decide when you want to be here. If you need more specific information from us, let us know. We don't have it yet, but we will make sure you know when we know if you want to know.
My goodness is she getting huge. She is wearing her twelve-month clothes now without any problem.
The outfit she's in there is the one she got for Christmas. It's actually an 18-month outfit. The legs and sleeves are rolled up a little on her. The cute sweater is almost too short for her torso.
It's another three months to Sydney's next scheduled doctor appointment. Until then we weigh and measure her as best we can here at home. We haven't weighed her recently, but we did try to measure her over this past weekend. With all her squirming, we figured she's about 32 inches long.
I looked up a length and weight chart online. (It's in a .pdf format so you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open it.) You can find it here if you'd like to see it.
According to that chart the 95th-percentile in length for a nine-month old baby is just over 29 inches. Thirty-two inches is the 95th percentile for 14-month old babies. It's about normal (50th percentile) for 19-month old babies. (Not to say Sydney isn't normal.)
Wow!
Did I mention that Sydney is getting huge?
Sydney is quickly outdistancing Fievel. I think her one-year birthday will be the last Fievel picture taken together. At least for the regular length comparison. He may well get into some future pictures here and there.
Since a few months ago I have also been taking the monthly pictures of Sydney and Fievel sitting together on our bed. This month is no different, except I threw an octopus in the mix, too. It's the large octopus from the My-Oh-My Octopi that Sydney got for Christmas. (See the last post.)
In other news, have I mentioned that Sydney knows the cameras when they get pulled out? The digital camera or the video camera, it doesn't matter. She knows them, she hears them beep when they turn on and she watches Mommy or Daddy intently while they point them at her.
She doesn't have a concept of what they do, of course. She doesn't know that Mommy and Daddy want her to continue doing the cute things she's doing to they can record them. But she knows that Mommy and Daddy usually want her to smile when those weird, beeping (and sometimes flashing) things are being pointed at her.
(Amazingly, with these pictures she didn't spend the whole time staring at me. She stared at me as I tried to get her to smile, then as soon as I pressed the button to snap the picture she turned her head. They're still great pictures!)
Her two bottom teeth have come in. She still crams fingers into her mouth so we think some back teeth are coming in now. But since she would barely let us look at her bottom front teeth when they were coming in we're having a hard time being able to see if she has back teeth coming in.
Sydney's first birthday is April 5. That's a Wednesday. For all the relatives that will be coming out, we're planning on having the party the weekend before that. Probably on Saturday, April 1. (No joke. Really.)
Anne and I are taking vacation time for a week and a half after that and we'll be packing up Sydney and heading off somewhere. We're not sure where yet and we're not sure when and for how long. But we will be taking some sort of trip.
Relatives that will be staying are certainly welcome to stay at the house as long as you need. We figure you'll be renting a car and will be driving yourself back to the airport. So if you stay a day or two without us here it isn't a problem. (It might not be your ideal circumstance since you probably want to see Sydney as much as possible, but sorry.)
So make your plans and decide when you want to be here. If you need more specific information from us, let us know. We don't have it yet, but we will make sure you know when we know if you want to know.
posted by Tah at 10:22 PM
3 Comments:
You have a lovely, comfortable house, but without Sydney there isn't much point in being there.
I'll have to think about this one. Please keep me updated on your plans.
OK. I've been thinking. Are you sure you want to take Sydney on your vacation? How about leaving her home with me?
I'm not sure how that would sit with Anne. Not because of leaving her with you, but of leaving her for that long.
Plus, our two main choices were to travel to areas to see family/friends and Sydney was a part of that.
Also, we want to see how Sydney does traveling for a hopeful trip in May to Cousin Mike's wedding.
And are you sure you want visit for two weeks or so? (Being there for the party and then for however long we're gone?)
I think I aleady know Anne's answer, but I'll run it by her anyway.
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