Easter this year was spent in Colonial Williamsburg. It has become our tradition every Easter to drive the couple of hours in on the morning of and get brunch with both my parents and AC’s parents and then whatever siblings of ours that are available to make the trip. This year my sister joined us and AC’s sister and her now husband came. AC’s mom was sick with the flu and couldn’t make it and his dad stayed in the DC area to be near his father who had caught the flu and then it went into pneumonia and was the reason for Adam’s sister’s early little wedding ceremony that I posted about on my last blog. He sadly just passed away this Wednesday and we will be going to his viewing on Sunday. He was an amazing man who lived to be 97 and outlived 3 wives!
But back to Easter, we all met up for brunch at a little hole in the wall place and caught up with each other and then walked around CW for awhile. The weather was perfect for once, not too hot or too cold. Some of the flowers had even started to bloom and the sheep were out walking around. Unfortunately Adeline was asleep at this point and missed out on seeing them. She did wake up to see the horse drawn carriages go by though. She was not that impressed, little stinker.
On April 5th Adeline turned 10 months old! No longer in the single digits and dangerously close to 1 years old! I know I keep saying this, but time really does fly by so fast when you have a baby. It’s like you blink and they are grown. She had her very last RSV immunization shot this Tuesday, I am so glad those are done. It is heartbreaking seeing her cry each time. Then yesterday she had her 9 months checkup, I know I am very behind! For some reason I didn’t know she was supposed to get a checkup at 9 months and completely missed the boat until I was told about it when I had brought her in when she was sick. (thankfully she is well now!) Anyway, Adeline is 13 lbs, which puts her, even at her adjusted age of 7 1/2 months developed, in the 2nd percentile for weight and 4th for height. My baby is tiny! I was a bit concerned by this but knew it was coming as she still wears some 3 month clothes and is in size 1 diapers at 10 months old. The doctor said part of it, aside from her being a preemie, was probably genetic. Both AC and I are not tall people. She suggested we start feeding her 3 meals of her baby food a day to see if that helps with her growth though. And to start giving her eggs and peanut butter to try and other things like that.
I am just thankful she didn’t say Adeline was Failure to Thrive because despite her small size, developmentally she is doing amazing and not that far behind a regular 10 month old! We discovered just last night that when holding our hands, she can walk! She is moving her feet along and everything! We were so surprised! She stands on her own if she holds onto something so it’s probably not going to be long before she puts 2 and 2 together and is shuffling around while clinging to the furniture. Another big development this month is that Adeline has her 2 front bottom teeth coming in! They have only just broke the surface but they are out. I am thankful they don’t seem to be causing her any real pain yet either.
In my TTC news, I finished my 5 pills of 50mg of Clomid a week ago and have been testing for ovulation ever since. I took them on CD5 to CD10. I have been getting the flashing smiley face on the ClearBlue OPK tests but not the solid smiley face indicating it’s here yet even though it’s detecting something. I am on CD17 today so it better come this weekend! I only have 3 tests left before I have to go spend $40 on another kit, ugh! I have also been getting pretty bad headaches this time around but thankfully not the Clomid Crazies like last month. I know AC is relieved! 😛 Fingers crossed I ovulate soon. Adeline needs a sibling!
ent back to his old job and this babysitter is an hours drive from both of our jobs and just not practical. I hope she adjusts well to this new place and it is a good fit, but I am hesitant about kids of all ages sharing the same space. I don’t want her to get run over or ignored. I will keep you posted!
Yesterday marked Adeline turning 9 Months old! She is getting closer and closer to a year old, time needs to slow down. Adeline is 12 lbs and 6 oz. She can sit independently now, which we are so proud! She is almost army crawling too, she is making new developments so fast now! She gets on her hands and knees and rocks back and forth. She still loves all fruits and veggies but isn’t a fan of yogurt or pureed mac and cheese. She does love pureed chicken though, go figure! She is still in size 1 diapers, which I am thankful for because we have so many boxes of them! She is also still wearing size 3 month clothes but has moved into 6 month pjs as she is too tall for the 3 month ones. She loves babbling back and forth to AC and I and really loves blowing raspberries in our faces…yeah she is a slobbery mess but so adorable. This past month AC, my sister and best friend all took Adeline to the beach where AC is stationed. It was actually 77 degrees out that day in winter! Even though the weather was warm the water was icy cold though. We stuck Adeline’s feet in the water, she was not too happy about that! But she really did enjoy the sand. She has her next RSV immunization next Tuesday and I am hoping it will be her last one. It just depends on if the RSV season ends this month or not but here’s hoping! She is actually starting to tolerate them better though, she will cry initially after the shot but she doesn’t seem to feel bad for the entire rest of the day anymore thankfully. That was hard to watch her go through. This Saturday AC’s sister will be getting married, a little ceremony for their grandpa who caught the flu and isn’t doing well, and then has her big ceremony with everyone will be in May. Adeline is going to be the flower girl in the May wedding but will still dress up and look cute for this little March ceremony. I guess it will be good practice to see how she does. Pictures of that coming soon!
Adeline’s first Christmas was pretty low key. AC was not able to get off of work on the 26th and didn’t want to have to have a 4 hour drive back home on Christmas Day from my parents house. So we stayed home this year and just celebrated Christmas as a little family of 3. I was pretty upset at first about not getting to see my grandpa and aunts and uncles but being just the 3 of us and enjoying our time together was actually pretty nice. I woke at 7am, AC and Adeline had been awake for probably an hour by then so we gathered around the tree and opened presents at that time, after I made some coffee of course). Adeline got lots of new pajamas, some spoons, a doll that used to be mine with a new dress I made for it, and an activity set. AC got me some perfume that I love, a dress, and best of all he somehow managed to snag me one of those Classic Super Nintendo mini consoles that comes with about 20 different games in it all from my childhood! I got AC a panini maker, a coffee grinder and some bottle caps from his favorite video game Fallout.
