9 months ( and counting)

OK, today was Raegans 9 month checkup.. lady looks good! 50th percentile for everything ( slightly higher in length though). 18lb 7oz. Plus, today she got a SHOT but the nurse, PEGGY was SO AWESOME! Raegan didn't even CRY, she was so fast and efficient! The only checkup that has been quick, informative and painless. Yeah!

In other news......( drum roll, please)

WE HAVE A TOP TOOF!!!

upper left, which i find funny cuz she got her lower right one first.. It will be photographable in a few weeks, so I'll submit new toofie smile pictures then!

all together now... WOO HOO!!!

3/4 jar of Chicken and Pears. Our dry spell is over.
Thank God.
(cheeze poo is not the funnest)

Raegan is 9 months Old Today... - 3/4 - .75 - 75% of a year....you get my point. She's growing so fast, she's BLURRY!!

In case you were wondering..

There will be no pictures on the Blog for a while.. not sure how long. My wonderful Kodak Camera, one month after warrenty expiration, has decided to take a crap on me. Kodak is no help. We have NO MONEY to take it in and get it fixed ( assuming it can be fixed and doesn't just need replaced), so I have no way to doccument Raegans new things right now.
She is very good at the tummy crawl, using both arms to pull and her left foot to push ( you'd think her right foot wasn't there.. she holds it up in the air)
This totally sucks, by the way. I will always wonder what I've forgotten about her, and it's been 2.5 weeks since I had a camera.

OK, Explain this, please.

I can't get Raegan to eat. I put the food in her mouth, she puts the food on her tray, or bib, or the floor. Swallowing does not happen ( much). She'll eat cheese, and applesauce. The rest gets a grimace and is spit out ( assuming I can get it in her mouth in the first place instead of, say, her nose). She USED to eat rather well! Not for the last week. So tell me, then, why is it that she'll happily eat lint, grass, or dirt clods without any prompting? Q-Tip in the bathroom floor? Yum Yum ( it was clean). Mystery lump of paperish stuff found near the laundry room? Tasaty. Grass clump on the bottom of Dads shoe? ( he had just mowed... hoping no dog poo there as well) Delicious! DOG FOOD? Goodie Goodie. Oatmeal? Peas? Pears & Chicken? Yuck Yuck Yuck. I DO NOT understand. Should I just spread her food on the kitchen floor and let her crawl around and put it in her mouth? Wait it out? She's getting 95% ( of more) of her nutrition from bottles these days... isn't that supposed to be something like 60% by now? Sure, she'll happily chew on a carrot all day ( eating none of it, just teething ) , but turns her nose up at diced cooked carrots for dinner.
Maybe I should be washing the clothes in baby food so that the lint she inevitably eats at least has some nutritional value.
Or not.

Hey, she's COPPYIN' me!

Very Cool..... when I say " Uh Oh...", Raegan says "Uh Oh...". When I say " HI!", Raegan says "Iiieee". That little booger is COPPYING me! What a HUGE step forward! Not just mearly making noises that sound like noises she hears all day, but actually making the effort to make the noise that I am making right now! You can almose SEE her little brain absorbing all that information. Very cool!

On a crawling update.. she has stopped using her knees, and instead has decided to army crawl, pushing off with her toes and pulling with her fingers. Literally just her toes though. The rest of her leg stays straight out. Hmmm.. not the best way, but hay, she's figuring it out!

Last weekend we had a try at camping with Davinie and Steve, which just didn't turn out well. In the end, all three of us got sick, and Raegan and I are still fighting it. Don't think we got sick THERE, but I bet the cold weather didn't help. So, we're boogering all over the place, sneezing a lot, Raegan has this ugly cough, and my throat is killing me. Not to mention my head feels like it's full of water. Wonder how her head feels? It's been a fun week, let me tell you. The only good thing is Raegan gets dosed with childrens Motrin in the mornings ( that seems to be the worst time for her) so we both get a LONG first nap of the day. I will not feel guilty for drugging my child. I won't. ( I'm convinced she only got sick because she stopped breastfeeding completely about a week and a half ago. No mama antibodies...)

In other news, Matt has started school. He has 1 class in the mornings, and 2 classes at night, meaning he gets up at 2, works 4.5 hours, goes to class #1, comes home for a nap, homework , gets dinner, goes to class #2 & 3, Home to sleep. This is on tue-thursday. On monday he just has the morning class, so he works, goes to class, works some more, then comes home to sleep. Busy boy, let me tell you. He's gonna burn out, but HE has to decide to cut back on work, I can't make him.

I'm hoping to start work as a Medical Transcriptionist some time this fall. Arranging the training now, and Davinie has a former co-worker who may be "hiring" later on.. hopefully that works! It would be NICE to be able to contribute some $ other then babysitting funds!

Well, That's All for Now, Folks!

Happy Baby! 

Funny Face! 

Silly Girl 

Movin' and Grovin'

I am officially gonna claim that today, Raegan started to crawl. Now, it was mostly on her face, or backwards, but she's figuring it out!

Happy as a clam.