Gabi - 9 month check-up

Gabi had her 9 month check-up today and is doing great. She weighs 16 pounds, 6 ounces (11%) and is 27 inches long (30%). She is working very hard on crawling and pushes herself backwards quite well now. She still has no teeth but we see them coming and it shouldn't be long now. She is still a talker and rivals Alex in who can talk the most during the day. She is getting along great with her big brother and loves to watch him and laugh with him. It is fun to see the two interact with each other. We can't wait until she gets moving and hopefully starts sleeping better.

I went back in time to see what Alex was doing at 9 months and at this time in his life he was creeping, not crawling and weighed in at 16 pounds, 1 ounce. We think that Gabi is so chunky compared to Alex but she only weighs 5 ounces more.

Gabriella - 6 months old

Gabi had her 6 month check-up today. Everything went very well. She weighs 14 pounds, 11 ounces (25%) and is 26 inches long (50%). She had a great time with us in Sedona and learned to sit on her own (probably because for the first time she didn't have gigantic, bulky diapers on) and was a champ with all the hiking we did.

Alex enjoyed his time with the grandparents, as he always does, and is finally adjusting back to life as normal. He has turned into quite the chatterbox and has a running dialogue about anything and everything every waking moment. No wonder he falls asleep as soon as his head hits the pillow.

Rolling over

Today Gabi rolled over for the first time. She has been trying very hard for the last few weeks to roll over from her back to her stomach and she got very close. Today I put her on her stomach in her crib and she rolled over to her back in a matter of seconds, very easily. I know she will enjoy her new skill.

Alex and Gabriella

The holiday season is over and I now have time to log these important stats (since I am far too lazy to write them in a baby book). Back in November Alex had his three year check up. He weighed in at a whopping 29.6 pounds and is 3 feet tall. This puts him in the 20% for both height and weight. He also had is first dentist visit but he freaked out and wouldn't let them touch is teeth. Somehow in the two seconds that the dentist did look at his teeth he determined he had no cavities. Yeah for Alex.

Gabriella had her 4 month check up today and she now weighs 12 pounds, 14 ounces and is 23 3/4 inches long. This puts her in the 25% for both height and weight. Other than her first cold of her life, Gabi is doing very well. She is very happy and is always smiling. She loves to sit up but still falls over on her face quite often. She is pushing up very high on her stomach and probably isn't far away from rolling over.