The other week, Jace had his 15 month appointment. He continues to grow like a weed. 27lbs 14oz and 33″ long! We learned that there is a difference between length and height (gravity? or maybe kids just slouch?) and his growth chart is for length. He is still 90% for height and weight.

He passed his checkup with flying colors. Only thing we have to work on is transitioning him from the bottle to a sippy cup. We have switched his morning one so far but he isn’t too into this change. He definitely drinks much less from a sippy than the bottle. Oh well, he gets plenty of other dairy in yogurt and cheese and his isn’t about to waste away….

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Did you know that in order to have your one year shots, you have to actually be over 1 year old? 5 days shy of your first birthday and you can’t have them. Apparently the lady who rebooked our appointment when I said we were going to be out of town didn’t know it either. We went in for Jace’s one year appointment today and came home with a new appointment for 3 weeks for now for shots.

We did get all the other well baby stuff taken care of so I am happy to report that Jace is a healthy almost one year old who is 31 1/2″ tall (yes, tall rather than long. He got measured standing up for the first time). He also is the same weight as his cousin who just turned 2. He weights in at a whopping 25lbs (no wonder my back hurts!). Actually he is tracking straight along the 90% curves so his weight is just fine. We are going to start slowly introducing wheat (keeping our fingers crossed that all this waiting paid off and he isn’t allergic like Steve was) and cow’s milk. At some point we need to buy him some shoes since the giraffe ones are getting rather tight (one top because he has fat feet, not length wise) and if he is walking around outside his feet need some protection.

We will keep you updated on how it all goes.

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Jace is now 9 months old and boy has he grown. First off he weighs 22lbs 12 1/2 oz! While that may sound (and feel) very heavy, he has actually slipped a little in the weight charts. He was 90th percentile and now he is somewhere around 85th.  He is also 29 3/4″ tall which is above 90th percentile and puts him in 12-18 month pants from Old Navy!

As you can see from the earlier posts, he is army crawling like a mad man. He can really take off when he has somewhere to go. He get into a sitting position from his tummy and pull himself to standing. And more importantly, in the last week he has learned how to sit back down again! Before that he got stuck and would cry until you helped him down. He still hesitates a little as he gets up the nerve to plunk down on his butt but he gets there. He isn’t quite cruising yet although he does slowly make his way down the edge of the coffee table as he plays.

After a slow start to solid food, he is eating up a storm. Fruit is definitely his favorite, along with rice cakes, guacamole, and hummus. He enjoys carrots, sweet potato and squash and will eat peas and green beans at daycare along with oatmeal and rice cereal. At home he refuses to let me feed him cereal, oatmeal or green beans and I refuse to feed him peas as the smell of them makes me gag. Takes me back to the elementary school cafeteria and the smell of mushy overcooked peas. Not a fond memory! Oh yeah, he also likes plain yogurt. We are still avoiding wheat since Steve was allergic to it as a kid so we are starting to experiment with other grains such as quinoa and rice/potato pasta (thank goodness for Whole Foods!). We also just bought him some “Bunny Love” cereal which is like Cheerios but all oat. Actually it reminds me of dried cat food but don’t tell Jace. He seemed to love it at dinner.

I have also posted a bunch of new pictures in the photo section so enjoy!

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On latest count, Jace now has 6 teeth. Warning, do not let him trick you into sticking your finger in there…those are the teeth of a fierce animal despite how cute he is trying to convince you that he just wants to suck on your finger.

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Jace had his 6 month appointment on Friday. He is doing great and can now sit up independently, has 2 teeth, understands object permanence (if a toy falls on the floor, he knows to look for it rather than just assuming it is gone) and has tried solid food (more on that later). He weights 20lbs! and is 28″ tall! That keeps him in the 90% percentile for his age. He is not mobile yet except for when he in his crib and he inches forward from one end to the other during the night to smoosh his nose into the end! I’m sure that he will be crawling and walking way before we are ready for it! It is kinda nice knowing that I can put him down in one place and come back to find him still there.

He is a silly boy though. He had to get shots for this appointment and even though I tried to distract him, he insisted on watching our lovely nurse Laura giving him the shots. I mean, he really stared at the needle going into his leg all three times! Crazy boy. I hope he doesn’t start to associate Laura with pain because she is great and I would hate for him to cry whenever he sees her.

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Yes, Jace has his first tooth. We have been waiting for it for a couple of weeks due to the increased crankiness, excessive drool and fingers constantly in his mouth but didn’t know if it really was imminent or not. Tonight we went to friends’ housewarming party and apparently Steve stuck his finger in Jace’s mouth at some point (yes, I have no clue why) and found the tooth. It is the bottom left front tooth. Just broke through the surface and feels very pointy! Karina also found her finger in Jace’s mouth at some point (this time I think Jace put it there) and confirmed it. Ironically, I had just an hour or so before told another friend, Virginie, that Jace had no teeth yet!

Another week, another milestone.

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After our unplanned trip to the doctor on Monday, Jace had to go back to the doctor on Thursday for his 4 month checkup. He is now 17lbs 6 oz and 26 3/4″ long.  On Monday he was 17lbs 12 oz so I am not sure where those 6oz went but it isn’t like this kid is in desperate need of them. He is meeting all his development milestones such as head control and tracking people and generally is a happy healthy child.

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For those of you who are keeping track, Jace turned three months old this weekend. Usually babies don’t have to go visit their doctors at this milestone but Jace was an exception. When he was born, his head was 75 percentile in size (Thank goodness) even though his height and weight were in the 90-95 percentiles for his age. He kept on this curve at one month but when he went in for his two month checkup, his head had grown from 75% to 95%. Since that is a twenty percent jump, our doctor wanted him to come back at month three to make sure there wasn’t a problem.

Jace’s latest stats: Head circumference 90% for age (I forget the dimension but he passed his checkup with flying colors), weight 15 lb 15 1/2 oz (that is 90%) and height 26″ which is above 97%! We have one tall kiddo here. One happy, tall, healthy kiddo.

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Jace is very proud of the things he has learned of late. You may have heard that Jace was not a big fan of his swing or his bouncy chair. He generally just hated being put down, much preferring to be held. We were gradually gaining a little freedom as he started to become interested in the play gym where he lies on his back and would accidentally swat the animals hanging down and be amused. Once he got to daycare, April sat him in swing and apparently Jace forgot that he didn’t like it. Same with the bouncy chair! Now he is quite content to sit in them for a period of time (i.e. while we eat dinner) and watch us and the rest of the world.

In addition this, Jace has discovered his hands. Now he can grab onto things (it often takes a few tries) and hold on. He is also figured out that he can put things in his mouth. Sometimes this is whatever he is holding on to, other times it is his hand. Or both his hands. It is quite amusing watching him try to fit two hands in his mouth.

Finally Jace is continuing to find his voice. He used to just squeal from time to time but now he definitely tries to communicate. Usually to try to get our attention and tell us we are ignoring him (like right now as I type this!)

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Yes this was the big scary one with shots. Now, I think it was definitely more scary for me that Jace. He didn’t know what was coming. Then again, neither did I…

Jace and I go to the same doctor. It is a family care office and I just love Linnea. She is very down to earth, easy to talk to and makes you feel very comfortable. Since I am going back to work soon (more on that later), I decided this would be a good opportunity to get my physical out of the way at the same time we were going in for Jace. I scheduled back to back appointments and had Steve come too so he could watch Jace while I was in with the doctor. Plus it was a good excuse to get Steve to go so I would have moral support when Jace got his shots!

My appointment starts out as all appointments do with blood pressure tests, being weighed etc and seemed to be continuing on as I expected with conversations about allergies and moles. When all of a sudden, Linnea declared that I need a tetanus shot. Wait just one second. Jace was the only one scheduled to have shots today. Not me…

Since Jace was already in a room waiting for his turn, we decided I would get my shot from the Jace’s nurse in front of him. Mommy had to put on a brave face so Jace wouldn’t fear his turn. By the time that Linnea had given Jace his checkup (he weights 14 lbs 2 oz and is 25 1/2″ tall!) and we waited for the nurse to come back with his shots, my darling son was ASLEEP. Clearly I put on a VERY brave face because he wasn’t at all scared. He certainly woke up when the first needle went in and survived the other two and the oral vaccine with a moderate level of screaming.

He seemed to be just fine when we got home but he did get a slight fever later that night. That is when we got to here a new Jace cry in his repertoire of cries. The sick baby cry sucks. It isn’t the loudest by any means, but it is definitely the one that pulls the most at the heart strings because he sounds so miserable. We gave him tylenol and finally got him to sleep that night. He woke up the next day feeling fine but, next time he gets shots, he gets tylenol before the fever starts because I want to avoid that sick cry if possible. Oh, and next time I get a shot, I might give myself pain killers too, cause that tetanus shot hurt afterwards.

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