What a week it's been (July 12-19)! Anna continues to grow at a rapid pace - it seems as if she's completely changed in just one week:
1. She FINALLY started crawling
2. She learned how to point
3. Two more teeth came in (the two next to her front/top two)
4. Dropped the afternoon bottle and moved on to three meals a day
It has been so incredible to witness all of this growth, change and transformation. It's like something has "clicked" inside that little brain and she just get it!
Let me start this amazing week by talking about her nine-month check up. Bill and I went to Lakeview pediatrics to see her pediatrition for her well visit. I always love those becuase A) she's always gaining weight, and B) She always gets a clean bill of health. The same was true this time around. The stats are as follows:
22 lbs (90th percentile) my little chunker :)
29 inches long (75th percentile)
Perfectly healthy in every way (We are SO blessed)
The only thing that we need to do (and very soon) is get Anna into the habbit of falling asleep on her own. Up until now, she's been very used to and comfortable with falling asleep on us and we've created a monster. It's "cry-it-out" time :( Ugh.
Moving on to the next part of the week: CLEVELAND!
The Whelan family went on our first major roadtrip with Anna to visit all of our friends in Cleveland (especially the Baran Clan (Scott, Tara, Aiden, Brady and the little one on the way). Anna did so well on the way there and back. She was pleasant the entire time...unbelievable!
We had a wonderful time meeting all of our friends' new children and an even better time putting them to bed while we "partied" around Scott's bonfire...ahhh the good ole times.
While in Cleveland, Anna surprised us all by CRAWLING across the room for the first time! What made her do it? It was Diesel, the Baran's huge chocolate lab. She loves dogs, and now, she loves to crawl. She's all over the place and we couldn't be happier and more excited for her. Right when we got back home to Chicago, Bill and rushed around the house to "fine tune" our baby-proofing. I think we're good to go, but only time will tell.
Things change when babies start to crawl. There is an aire of independence that comes over them. They're excited to explore the world. And, for the first time...they do it on their own. I love seeing her grow - discovering the world and herself, but I can't help feel a little sad. My little Bear doesn't need me for everything anymore. It's a new chapter in her life, so we have to close the old one...the infant one.
I wish time could stand still for our little family.
Everyone always says, "the best is yet to come." I know that is true, and I look forward to all of it. However, these "baby moments" are few and very precious. I want to soak each second in, wrap my arms around all of it and never let her smell, her sounds her feeling leave me for the rest of my life. I love her at every moment and every stage of life - I'm just so blessed to have been there to experience it all.
I know this is a little cheesy (and you know how I hate that stuff), but I can't help think of a song by John Mayer called, "Stop This Train." The lyrics are below:
No I'm not color blind
I know the world is black and white
Try to keep an open mind but...I just can't sleep on this tonight
Stop this train I want to get off and go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can't
But honestly won't someone stop this train
Don't know how else to say it, don't want to see my parents go
One generation's length away From fighting life out on my own
Stop this train I want to get off and go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can't but honestly won't someone stop this train
So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun
Had a talk with my old man, Said help me understand
He said turn 68, you'll renegotiate
Don't stop this train
Don't for a minute change the place you're in
Don't think I couldn't ever understand
I tried my hand
John, honestly we'll never stop this train
Once in a while when it's good It'll feel like it should
And they're all still around And you're still safe and sound
And you don't miss a thing'til you cry when you're driving away in the dark.
Singing stop this train I want to get off and go home again
I can't take this speed it's moving in
I know I can't
Cause now I see I'll never stop this train
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