10 months old

I can not believe that today Forrest is ten months old. It doesn't even seem possible. Everyone says that the time will go fast but until you actually experience it you really don't understand exactly what it is like. In two months our baby boy will be one.

It is so fun to watch his personality start to come out. He loves music and will start to "dance" anytime he hears any type of music. He loves the dogs and especially likes it when anyone says Daisy's name. He laughs hysterically at it...we aren't really sure why at this point.

He is basically eating almost all adult food along with his normal bottles during the day. He loves waffles for breakfast with some cut up bananas and he loves shredded cheese with whatever he is having for dinner.

He is drinking out of a sippy cup at each of his meals. He loves his water and loves being a big boy with his cup.

No crawling yet but believe me...Mommy is quite content to have him just sit and play with his toys for now because I know as soon as he figures it out there will be no stopping him.

Tubes are in...

So, yesterday Forrest had his tubes put in his ears. The procedure went great and was very quick. He was a little out of sorts in the recovery room which the nurse says is normal since they are only out for such a short amount of time.

Today he has been pretty cranky. I think he still is not feeling too great and is also working on some new teeth. He is pretty clingy and really just wants to sleep or be held.

Hopefully tomorrow he will get back to his normal happy self.

I did take some cute pictures of him while we were getting ready for the surgery. I will get those posted in the next day or two.

Going to try this again...

So obviously I have not been the best at keeping this blog up. Taking care of Forrest keeps me very busy. :) I am going to try really hard to do a better job of posting what is going on with him and keeping pictures on here, since a lot people don't get to see the ones that I put on Facebook.

Forrest turned nine months old on August 27th. I still can't believe it. I took him to his nine month appointment today and he weighed 18 pounds and was 27 inches long. He is no longer charted on the preemie chart but is compared to all other nine month olds even though he is a preemie. So compared to other nine month olds he is in the 12% for weight and 10% for height. His head still comes in at the 55%...but we know that is just because he is REALLY smart. :)

He is rolling over both ways. He is sitting up on his own pretty well. He has two teeth already and is working on a third. The doctor was especially impressed with the fact that he is already picking up food and feeding himself since this is more of a nine month skill that she would not expect him to have yet.

He really is doing fantastic. If you saw him out you would never know everything that he went through nine months ago. It is amazing.

The only issue we are having is re-occurring ear infections in the right ear. This is due to a narrowing ear canal probably from being a preemie. I have scheduled an appointment with an ENT for next week but we are probably looking at having to put tubes in his ear.

Here is a picture of him that I took on the day he turned nine months old. :)