week 40- 9 month checkup

Anna's vocabulary is constantly growing. We went to the docter for her 9 month checkup and she started to get fussy. The nurse offered to make her a sticker "lollipop". Basically they take a tongue depresser and sticker two stickers together at the top. Anna loved it. She kept saying "duck". However, now that I look back she might be saying "that" in an asking manner. So I kept saying sticker...sticker...sticker. Finally out of the blue she said "sticker". the docters mouth dropped. She seemed to be amazed and said that she could tell that Anna was talked to alot. I was soooooo proud of Anna. At her appointment she weighed 16 lbs .8 ounces(which is in the 10% for her age), she is 27 inches long (25% for her age). You I cant how many people that see her look at her feet and hands and say oh....she is going to be tall. Hmmmmmmmmm.....I do think she has long feet but I dont really think she has big hands.

Anna also say's book alot. She loves to look at her books and be read to. She is also know getting to where she will point to things in the book.Sometimes it sounds like she is saying "that?" and sometimes it sounds like she is saying "duck". Anna is also starting to point to real items. Whether it be in a store, outside or inside the house. Again sometimes it sounds like she is asking "that?" other times it sounds like "duck".


Anna will not eat regular baby food any more for me. Instead I have to feed her the gerber graduates stage. Like the beenie weenies, the fruit, the pasta, the cheese doodle thingys. If I even try to sneak the other baby food (the stage 2 or three) she looks at me like I am crazy! Anna also loves to feed herself. I will put two or three items on her little table top (of the high chair) and she will pick them up and feed herself. I love watching her learn.

Everyday she continues to amaze me. My favorite part of the day, well I guess I have to parts of the day that are my favorite. One is in the morning when she wakes up and when she first sees me the smile on her face. The other is when I pick her up from daycare after work. I love walking in and seeing her playing and the minute she notices I am there her little face lights up and she gets the biggest smile. It makes all the headaches from work just dissappear.

36-39 weeks

Man...I am seriously failing in my goal to write once a week for Anna's blog. I feel horrible. This was suppose to be my way of recording her moments for her to read later and...well lately I havent been able to make the time. Recently I got a promotion at my work. Well not really a promotion essentially i was put into a position of greater responsibilty. The bad thing is right now I am doing my old job and my new job. So not only is it jsut the added work load of the new responsibilities its that plus my old workload. Soon I hope I wont be doing my old job much and once that happens I will have a little more time. Anna and I have been getting home so late. Normally I will go pick her up from daycare at 5 and take her back to work until about 7-8. By the time we get home we spend most of the time getting Anna ready for the evening and getting everything ready for the next day. In the limited time that we have together I have opted to spend it interacting with her instead of getting on the computer.
Anna has had an exciting few weeks. Around week 37 she learned the word duck. I am not sure how she picked this up except that she has a duck she plays with a bath time. Only thing...everything she picks up for a while was "duck"! It was cute because it was like she was asking "duck?" and I would say "no...book" or "no block",etc.
In week 37 Anna had her first big experience with snow. We got about 5 inches. I was so excited that I was going to get to use her snowsuit. So I rushed to put her in it and take pictures. Well poor Anna was a little sleepy and didnt do to well sitting up. She kept falling on her back or own her side. She didnt have a problem falling these ways but when she fell on her face....she looked so pitiful. I had to run her into the house and wipe the snow off and she was still crying. It didnt take long for her to get over it but we didnt venture back out.

Anna also got a bad rash on her face this week. I think it was from being at someone elses house. She was laying and crawling on a blanket. I guess she isnt ready for big people laundry detergent.
In week 38 Anna and I had our first experience rushing to an emergency room. Anna woke up with a temp of 104...so off we went. It all started the night before when she had a 103 temp. I gave her some tylenol and called the doctor. The doctor said to wait an hour and see if her temp went down and call her back. It went down to 99 so the doctor said not to worry just to monitor it and if it hit 104 go immediately to the emergency room. Or if it was 101 or higher and wasnt responding to tylenol. Well we ran to the emergency room where they gave her motrin. She wasnt showing any other symptons of being sick and her temp dropped to 100 so they sent her home. But said that if it went back up to 104 to bring her back because that is the temp that babies start seizing at. Luckily it never went back that high. It would get as high as 102 but would drop once i gave her motrin or tylenol. This only lasted a couple days. I am convinced she had a tooth trying to break thru and that is what caused the temp.
In week 39 Anna learned "uh oh!" It was the cutest thing she would say "uh oh", then I would say spaghetti oh" and she would say "uh oh". She loved this game. This Nana and Poppop Durrette came to visit. Anna got to spend all day and night with them (she slept in their arms). Anna also went on her first big road trip to North Carolina from Kansas with Nana and Poppop. They tell me she did really good. I am so glad that she got to visit all the family in North Carolina!
Anna is eating more and more big people food. She loves pancakes and bread!
I really miss my baby and cant wait till tomorrow afternoon when I pick her and Nana up at the airport. I have been like a lost puppy dog the past few days with out her....