Lots of news.
Here’s my most exciting news: Falco cut a new tooth on the top! I saw it today when I was hanging him upside down, which he loves and is the only way I can get a glimpse of his top gums. It is the tiniest dot of tooth just barely poking through his gum. It is the far left top incisor, and the area over the left center incisor is very swollen, so I think that one will make its appearance soon. Overall he has been doing well, but he did have a very hard time getting to sleep last night. He usually does great at bedtime, so we’re thinking his mouth was probably sore.
In other news today, he got himself to a sitting position by himself three or four times today. This should be bigger news than the tooth I guess, but he hasn’t quite figured out how to do it anytime he wants so it’s still a work in progress. It’s great that he is starting to get the hang of it because until now the only way he could sit was if we plopped him down that way. When he did it today, he looked so proud of himself and got really excited when I cheered for him.
On Friday he went in for his 9-month well-baby visit, and it was good except the doctor was a little concerned about his weight. On his growth chart, his weight went straight across this time instead of curving upwards. She said he looked good on exam but to try to get extra calories in him where possible. So, we’re trying to give him more high-calorie foods like avocado and cheese and add butter to his sandwiches, things like that. He will only eat as much as he feels like though, so we can only do so much. She said that he wasn’t grossly underweight or anything but to just try to increase his caloric intake if possible. He goes back at the end of September for a weight check.
The kitchen project is ticking along slowly but surely. We had inspections yesterday and today, which kind of held up the work. They are out of the way now though, so tomorrow the insulation will be completed and then sheetrock put up. Cabinets should be up by the end of next week and everything done by early the following week. Everything, that is, except the countertops and backsplash. The counters will be installed after all the other work is completed, and the backsplash will be the very last thing to be done. Hopefully it will all be complete by the end of September and then we will be living like kings in our palace of a kitchen.
Now, here’s for the fun stuff if you made it this far. I took this funny video of Falco yesterday. He thought it was hilarious when I put his hairbrush in an empty box and shook it around. Be sure to have your sound on so that you can hear him laughing.
