Baby food is for babies!

At the ripe old age of 10 months, Keanan has decided that he's much too old for pureed food and will pretty much only eat finger food. I'm hopeful that this is a phase and he'll go back to the purees (since it's so much easier to get veggies in him that way), but it's hard to to be too worried about it when he's so darn pleased with himself and his "big boy food."

Ellie gets a new ‘do

Miss Ellie’s hair had gotten so long and I loved it, but it was so hard to manage.  The daily battle with the tangles wore us both out and we decided it was time for a new ‘do.  She lost some inches, but none of the sass!

 

 

Poo-poo Coming!

Charlie has started showing some early signs of being interested in potty training and has successfully gone in the toilet a few times (yay!), but he gets very anxious when his diaper is off, spending most of the time holding his bobo with one hand and his front bits with the other, saying "poo-poo coming! poo-poo coming!" (with increasing urgency). Damian and I, always the nurturing, mature parents, think it's hilarious and are usually far too busy laughing to relieve his anxiety by putting a diaper on. Tonight, Charlie went on the potty, then we brushed teeth and headed into his bedroom (Charlie was diaperless). He was crawling around while I put Ellie's diaper on and he started freaking out -- "poo-poo coming! poo-poo coming!" -- at which point, he tooted and whipped around to see if it was...uhm...productive. I can't help it -- some bathroom humor is funny.

Keanan’s first wagon ride

We’re still getting so much use and enjoyment from the wagon that Shiny Grandpa and Meme got for the kids 2.5 years ago – the kids love it and it comes in handy more times than we could’ve imagined.  And now Keanan loves it just as much as his sister and brother do – particularly when his brother is the one driving and his sister is entertaining him.

It’s not quite as much fun when his brother tries to fold down the seat while he’s still sitting in it:

Sissy with her little brothers:

Pulling/Pushing Up

Keanan one step closer to walking and toddlerhood, and one step farther from babyhood: he's pulling up with ease. He's been pushing up for a couple of weeks, but something clicked and now he can pull up on just about anything. I'm afraid to look, but I think I'll try to figure out how long it took the Bigs to start walking after they could pull up...

Okay, 3.5 months from the time Charlie pulled up to his first independent steps. I can totally handle that!

Long, lean, smilin’ machine

I finally took Keanan in for a well check last week – his first since he was 2-months old – and it turns out that Keanan is breaking the Hirst growth pattern.  Although, at birth, he weighed a pound more than Ellie, and a pound and a half more than Charlie, he is now the smallest of the three.  At 8.5 months, he weighs 19 lbs, 5 oz, putting him in the 39th percentile.  THIRTY-NINTH!!!  I nearly fell out of my chair!  And he’s 29.5 inches long, putting him in the 91st percentile (that’s more like it).  Even his head is little by Hirst baby standards – it’s in the 52nd percentile.

At 9 months, Charlie weighed 22.5 lbs (80th percentile), was he’s 30.25 inches long (95th percentile), and his enormous melon was in the 98th percentile.  Ellie weighed 21 lbs, 15 oz. (90th percentile), was 29 inches long (also 90th percentile), and her head was in 95th percentile.

My theory is that Keanan didn’t bulk up like the other two did because he started crawling so early.  This little guy is never stationary and has been motoring around for almost 2 months.  Now he’s pulling/pushing up and I’m going to be forced to start pushing him down just so he doesn’t walk anytime soon!

Although Keanan didn’t reach the weight limit on the infant seat, he was definitely too long, so he’s graduated to a big boy seat.  SLOW DOWN, KEANAN!!! 

Last time in the infant seat:

First time in the toddler seat.  I think he looks so much like Ellie in this picture:

A boy and his trucks

Charlie has definitely been bitten by the transportation bug that seems to get many little boys.  Trains and buses are his favorite, but tractors, dump trucks, trash trucks, mail trucks, “pickle” (pickup) trucks, and “motorbycles,” etc., etc., etc. are not far behind.  He likes to line them all up just so.

 

And in the middle of one breakfast we realized that he had lined them all up as if they were drinking from a watering hole.  He thought it was super fun to fill the dump truck with cheerios.

It’s just so fun to see him turning into a real boy…just like Pinocchio. ;-)