9 Month Stats and Such

Remy's appointment on Friday went well.  He's growing strong and is as healthy as a horse!  He now weighs 20.11 lbs (70%) and is 30 in tall (99%).  I still don't know where the height thing comes from but maybe that will simmer down as he gets older.  The doc was concerned that his clogged eye duct hasn't gone away on its own yet.  We've tried all we can think of to make it go away on its own - rubbing the spot between his eye and nose, putting ointment in his eye and trying breastmilk.  Nothing has worked thus far so she referred him to an eye place to have it "unclogged".  Apparenlty it's actually called dacryostenosis.  Anyways, that's getting taken care of next week.  Hopefully he's in and out and it doesn't cause too much pain.  I can't handle watching him in pain.  It breaks my heart.  Speaking of pain, after his shot on Friday he got a fever.  It started Saturday night and is still really bad tonight - 24 hours later.  He's never had a reaction like this to any shots before but I'm assuming that's the cause.  Poor little guy has had a temp of 101 all day and this evening it went up to 103.6.  That scared me so I called and spoke to a nurse.  After we gave him some more Tylenol his fever went back down to 102 and he seems ok.  The nurse said to bring him in tomorrow unless his temp goes to 105 or he seems much worse.  Gosh I hate seeing him sick.  :(

My little sick dude cuddling with dad.

 

9 Months Old!

Remy turned 9 months old on July 2nd.  Holy smokes, only 3 more months until he turns 1!  Ahhh!!!!  I'm so not ready for that.  Rem has been doing fantastic.  He's growing like a weed and learning so many new things.  He has his 9 month appointment at the end of this week so I'll have to blog again with his stats.  

We stayed up north for a week at a cabin and I thought Rem would start crawling then but he didn't.  He sure knows how to get around though.  He army crawls faster and faster every day.  Building that upper body!  We desperately need to baby proof our house....  whoops, procrastinators.  

While we were at the cabin he learned how to give kisses.  They aren't what you would call a "normal" kiss.  They are more like an open mouth slobber but they are kisses all the same.  It's soooooo sweet.  He also started giving everyone the finger while we were at the cabin.  No, not the middle finger, his pointer finger.  He sticks out his pointer finger and waits for you to tap it with yours and then "blow it up" as we like to call it.  Haha.  He's just so darn cute.

While at the cabin Remy went for his first swim.  I put his feet in the sand a few times and he hated it.  But then we went to Phil's uncle's cabin and tried it again and the lake must have been warmer or something because he ended up loving it.  It took him a few minutes to get used to the water and then he didn't want to get out!  

Rem also had his first experience in his kiddy pool this week.  I'm not sure what he liked more - being naked or being in his pool (we were too lazy to go upstairs and get a swim diaper).  :)

Remy has also started saying "mama" a lot.  I still don't think he knows it's me but Phil seems to think he knows.  So I'm not sure if I can call that his first word yet but either way, it's adorable and it melts my heart.  Pretty soon he will definitely know it's me and will say it when he's upstairs in his crib crying.  My heart won't be able to take it!  I'm a sucker for my little love.

Until next month...