catch up

Well, between birthdays, kidney stones and Christmas, I never gave you the stats from Penny's 12-month check-up!  Here they are:

19 lbs, 5.5 oz

28 5/8 inches

I was stunned that I would still have to hold off on turning her car seat around!  I thought to myself that if I had given her that 6 oz of formula before her appointment, maybe she would have topped out at 20 lbs!  Besides, she was so far ahead of Bethany at each appointment that I thought for sure she would be 20 lbs.  Oh, well.  We waited a couple of weeks and then turned her seat around anyway!  That seat was a pain in the neck facing backward.

She still refuses to walk.  She's taken two steps on a couple different occasions.  She's enjoying all of her new toys that she got for Christmas.  She's a whiz at the ring-stacker and loves playing her instruments.  

On another note - we've begun our annual spring cleaning.  Yes, we have spring cleaning in the winter because that's when we have off the most time.  Nathan is usually catching up on grading during spring break.  We purchased a free-standing pantry for the garage to help with our kitchen pantry and paper goods over-load.  We also purchased some baskets to organize our bookshelf of toys in the living room.

Next on the list is cleaning out old toys from the girls' rooms.  We had to rearrange the set-up of Bethany's room to accommodate the doll house.  It looks really nice, I think.  Bethany says it's beautiful.

I'm going to consolidate the Christmas madness pictures into one page and then post it to the girls' website.  Look for that in the next couple of days. 

Penny

At her 9-month check-up yesterday, Penny was 18 lbs, 5 oz and 27 1/4 in long.  Just below 50th percentile.  She is crawling around like crazy and pulling up and trying to cruise (though our house set-up isn't really conducive to cruising).  She likes to get into EVERYTHING.  She's going to be a handful (as if she wasn't already!).  Still only 2 teeth but the drool has just been disgusting.  A lot of times she is very disinterested in toys, but loves trying to eat cat food and the cat scratcher.   Now she is interested in typing.  More later!

Soooooooo Big!

Penny's two month check up today:
11 lbs 9.5 oz
23 inches long

She has gone from 50th %ile to 75th %ile. Maybe I won't have the same clothing problems with her as I did/do with Bethany!

Speaking of, I just today put Bethany's 2T clothes in a bin (though she does still have some 2T pants and skirts in her drawer). She'll be 4 in July. She has a pretty long torso and long legs, but her waist is SOOOOOOOOO tiny. I can't buy any of those cute 2-piece outfits. She can almost wear 4T tops/dresses, but so many pants/skirts she is still kindof in between 2T and 3T. Ugh.

Penny has been sleeping through the night for several weeks now. That's probably thanks to having to give her a bottle of formula at night. She's a pretty sporadic eater during the day and then around 5PM wants to do nothing but eat. I feel like I just can't keep up with her (and don't really feel like nursing for 4 straight hours). So now I nurse her after bath time and then she has 2-4 oz of formula, then to bed. Obviously it's not a problem (even her ped. said so) since she is growing just fine.

Anybody see the eclipse tonight? It's really cloudy here. Hoping to get a break.