Cookie's 6-Month Peds Appointment
We have a whopping 17 lb., 7 ounce baby girl! She's also 26 inches long, which puts her in the 75th percentile. She may be a fairly tall young woman someday, which suits her daddy just fine (he's hoping she will be able to "dunk on fools"). Apparently, she's been right on track all along, and weighs only a tiny bit above where she should be for her length (okay, so she takes after her foster mommy and daddy!). She's now wearing jammies and tops/onezies that are sized for a 12 month old, and pants and jeans for a 9 month old. So far, we have breezed through clothes quickly and packed up 4 huge Rubbermaid bins full of her baby clothes that are too small (yet I won't get rid of because - well, there may be another foster-baby one day post-adoption). Yup, we might very well do it all over again. We are that crazy.Cookie also got 5 vaccinations, given in 3 injections. The first one she looked disturbed, the 2nd one she hollered for a second, and on the 3rd one she started to cry but stopped as soon as her daddy picked her up and kissed her. She's quite a little trooper.
Over the weekend, she fought a fever off and on, and was rather cranky. The site on her left leg where she got two injections was swollen and red and hot. It looked painful. We tried not to touch it, but we could tell she was hurting. Baby Motrin seemed to help a lot.
Bath time last night took on a whole new feel, as Cookie discovered splashing. With one fat little hand she smacked the water, looked up to see me grinning, gave me a devilish little look, and started smacking the water in front of her like crazy. Water flew everywhere - on the kitchen countertops, the floor, all over the front of my body (I was drenched), and even the window above the kitchen sink. Suddenly, my Cookie is discovering that she has control over many things in her universe - the laws of cause and effect - and it excites her to no end. Her grin tells it all - that she is excited, and can't wait to get into lots and lots of trouble.
She still isn't crawling per se. But she is very skilled at pushing herself up on her hands and toes with her butt in the air and rocking back and forth as if she is suddenly going to leap forward. She also scoots and rolls everywhere with great proficiency. She figures she can get anywhere she needs to go by just rolling or scooting on her belly. She can do this so quickly that we are already baby-proofing things we thought we wouldn't have to for some time to come. So much for that!
Have I mentioned that I love being a mom? Hehehe.
posted by No Longer In Crisis @ 6/26/2006 01:50:00 PM
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