Naiyah's 9 Month Checkup

I'm very late blogging this, I got so busy this weekend that I haven't been able to write it until now. But we had Naiyah's 9 month checkup last Friday. She weighed in at 18lbs 6.5oz and 27 and 1/4 inches long. Of course, I had to pull out Tristan's baby book to compare his stats at the same age.

Now here's the funny part: as she's gotten bigger, I've been thinking poor Tristan, his little sister is so much bigger than him. He's gonna be so tiny and she's gonna be so big.

So imagine my surprise when I open his baby book to the appropriate page and what do I see for his 9 month stats? 18lbs 10oz and 28 inches. It's amazing the tricks your memory will pull on you isn't it? They are pretty much following the same growth curve, when my memory was telling me that he was so small. I think I have those...adjusted...memories now because he hasn't grown as quickly as he's gotten older - he's still in a 2t at 3.5 years old!

Since I had the baby book out, I started flipping through it and looking at his early milestones to see what he had achieved by the same age as Naiyah is now. Yes, I wanted to compare them. Bad mommy. But it's amazing to see that they got their first tooth at the same age, they sat up at the same age, and they rolled over right around the same age. The only place they differed is with their first word. Naiyah said hers about a month ago at 8 months, and Tristan didn't say his first one until a year. Funnily enough, he said Daddy first, and Naiyah said Mama. She's added a few new words to her vocabulary since then, she now says "hi" and "all done" too.

Oh and what is also entertaining is that neither one did the traditional crawl on hands and knees...Tristan did a 'gimp' crawl where he crawled on two hands, one knee, and dragged his bum and other leg along for the ride. Naiyah does a modified, very efficient army crawl which sort of looks like that move that breakdancers do when they do the 'belly flop' thingy. Hm. Maybe you'd have to see it to understand. Anyway, it sure is funny.

I know I've said it before, but I'm going to say it again...they are both growing way too fast!

PS...Tomorrow we're going to the Seattle Children's Museum, so hopefully I'll have some new pics to post soon.