Taking advantage of the "snow/ice" day on Friday, daycare being closed, and the doctor's office being close to home we moved up Ralph's 9-month check-up. Not surprisingly they had some cancellations. Based on the chart's Ralph is a tall, skinny boy. He is 29" tall and weighs 18 pounds 4 ounces. He only had two shots but reacted like there was four or five - luckily we had plenty of time to compose ourselves before living the exam room and he was all smiles by the time the receptionist saw us.
Ralph is still tummy crawling (swimming) and gets to where he needs to go just fine moving this way. He has mostly moved on to the stage 3 baby foods. I won't say we can brag about his sleeping habits again but the last three nights he has gone to bed between 7-7:30 pm and we haven't hardly heard a peep out of him until 6-6:30 am. One afternoon he was quite talkative babbling about "ba-ba" and his bottle was nearby but I haven't heard him carrying on much like that since and I'm not sure if he was just making sounds or if he knew what he was talking about. Ralph is still waiting for "his two(front) bottom teeth"- the doctor says they are in but the gum around them is swollen so we'll keep waiting until we can see them.
Ralph's "funny" thing we picked up on this month is the way he holds out his arm. He'll stick his right arm up and turn his palm up toward the sky - kind of like he's holding a serving tray or saying "ta-da". We are not quite sure what he's trying to tell us - it doesn't seem to consistently correlate to anything - but it is funny. In the last few days he has started to lift both arms up - kind of like "touchdown". I don't think anyone is encouraging the "so big" game yet so I'm not sure where that is coming from.
