Caleb Update

I took Caleb to the doctor today for his 9 month check up (can you believe he is that old already?). He weighs 19 lbs and 11 oz. That is the 50th percentile for his weight, I think the fact that he is crawling has caused him to stop gaining weight so fast. He is 28 and half inches tall which is about the 80th percentile. His doctor said he looks great and he didn't even have to have any vaccinations today!! I had to take Angie with me and I was very nervous about this because the last time she was at the doctor, she was terribly afraid and cried and screamed the whole time. Since then, I have had my friend Katie keep her whenever Caleb had a doctors appointment. The plan for today was that I would take him while she was at school, but school was cancelled because of the flooding. She did wonderfully. She didn't cry or act out or even act nervous at all. One time she did ask to leave but I told her we weren't done yet and that was enough. She even hugged the doctor before we left. I was amazed!

Back to Caleb...he is growing so fast. He is crawling everywhere and he is so fast. He has this great belly laugh now that is just adorable and you can't help but laugh when you hear it. He is finding humor in odd and random things (for instance, yesterday he was laughing hysterically at a ball). He is just the happiest little boy. We are slowly taking away his bottles and will take another one away at the beginning of October. That will have him down to only two bottles a day. I can't believe we are already at that point in his life.

That's all for now. The kids are in bed so now we get to watch a TV show (recorded from last night since we can never seem to get them in bed in time to watch things live!).

Preschool Begins

Angie began going to preschool this week. I had high hopes that she would be fine because at open house on Monday she was great. She was a little hesitant to go in the room but then she started to play and we painted a little. She was really enjoying herself. She even hugged the teacher before we left. I thought, "hey, this is great!". When we dropped her off Tuesday morning she was great again. She walked right into the room and never looked back. She could have cared less that we weren't in there with her. When I picked her up she was happy. She really seemed to enjoy herself. Then Thursday rolled around...I had to do the car line on Thursday. This is what started it all, I think. The person who took her from our car was someone we didn't know. She was hesitant to leave the van but I convinced her to get out. About 9:45 I got a call that she was still crying and had even thrown up because she was crying so hard. We agreed to let her stay and see what happened. They called back at 10:15 and said she was still crying but was a little better. We still decided for her to stay and I would just pick her up when school let out at 11:00. I just figured that she has to learn that school is fun and I am not going to come and rescue her just because she cries. We will see what next week holds.

On a side note, Caleb started crawling right after my last post. I believe it was on August 27th. I blogged that afternoon that he really wanted to but just hadn't figured it out. Well, later that afternoon, he figured it out! He is doing the army crawl but I don't think it'll be long before he is crawling on his hands and knees. He is pretty fast and we can already tell that he is going to be the child who gets into lots of things and will try to figure out how things work. Oh boy...

PS, the picture is from her first day of school. We took it before we left the house that morning.