I've been away

I haven't been blogging too much lately. There's a reason for this: School. Also, I've been dealing with a sick baby.

Besides the quick illnesses, he's been progressing extremely well. At his 9 month well baby he weighed 20.5 pounds and was 27 inches long. This is the 50% percentile and rather than thinking of him as "average" I'm deciding that he's perfect. Because he is.

Today, while traveling back and forth between the coffee table and the couch, he let go and half stepped/stumbled into the couch. He knew he did something impressive because he checked me out with his cheesy grin on his face. He's crawling like a fiend. I'm always amazed at how FAST crawling babies are. It seems to me that a week after learning to crawl should still warrant a bit of clumsiness.

He's progressing on his words as well. Well, maybe not words, but consonants at least. He has been introducing the "P" sound and also hits his G, N, B, C/K, Y and T sounds. I think this is all for now. He also works on his "ooo" "aaah" "e" and "i" sounds. Of course these are all sounded around "mama" and "dada" and "key-ee" words. He LOVES to say "kitty" and it just cracks me up that that is his 3rd word. It's funny, he gets most excited to see Penguin, who avoids him like the plague; somewhat excited to see Strider, who tolerates Jack's prods and seems to be least excited by Zelda, who he tortures by "cuddling" with but seems to think "hm, too easy she's old news." She is so sweet and tolerates him with amazing grace. I would think considering her age (she's about 7) that she would be the one that runs.

I've been trying to keep up with school, but I have a bit of "senioritis" because it's my last semester at QCC. I'm excited to simply finish community college and transfer to a 4-year school so that I can finally start working towards my degree. I want to finish this soon. I still have to get my transfer stuff done and work on taking my MTEL so that I can officially enroll in my program.

The discussion of future children keeps coming up. I always wanted to have my kids close together, within a few years, at least. Considering I had high blood pressure (which, looking back on it really wasn't horrible except for the spots, dizziness and projectile vomiting) I would want to cut back on the stress. However, simply having additional children would likely be stressful. However, I think in terms of easiness, in my opinion, it would make sense to have two kids while they're still in diapers at the same time. I don't know why. Maybe I'm nuts. Borrowing someone else's child for an afternoon doesn't really give me the idea that it would be easy or hard, since kids are usually on their best behavior when in someone else's home.