9 month check up

This morning Nash had his 9 month check up. He weighed in at 20lbs and 3oz and grew 3 inches since his 6 month check up. Now he is 28 1/2 inches. Everything was good which I expected it to be. He has met all his milestones some a little early. She said that pointing is a 12 month skill obviously dealing with communication and he has been doing that for a couple of weeks now. His mom is a social worker so of course he is going to be able to communicate! He has been a little fussy these past few days, feeling warm, and has woke up in the middle of the night so I thought he was teething again. She confirmed this when she looked in his mouth with the light and saw teeth right at the gums. She said his top left looked like it was about to break through. His gums are filled with white spots. I got a chance to get a good look at his top gum later because I have been focusing on the bottom one and they look very swollen and he has to be in some pain over them. I really like his doctor. She is so personable, kind, and good with Nash. She is a mom herself and oozes it. Which, I love. At the nine month check up, there is a foot prick to test their blood for lead and anemia. So, we are waiting in the hallway before going into the lab and Nash has only a diaper on. He is clapping, pointing, bouncing, and talking getting the attention of everyone who is anywhere near us. Then it is the dreaded prick. I did not think it would be that bad since it is only a prick but I could not be more wrong. He cried like he did when he got his shots. Then they have to squeeze his little foot and get all the blood into the container. He cried like his feelings were hurt and I think that is what it was because when I was able to turn him around and hold him close he was fine. The test came back good. I am so thankful for a healthy, happy, sweet little boy!

Nash's CD Cover

His cousin Kayla took pictures of him and edited this one. It looks like a CD cover. Handsome boy!

computer/pictures problem

I have put this off for a long time because I really don't know what to do about it so I figured I might be able to write it out and get some advice so here goes. Chris and I have a lap top and a computer that Chris had before him and I got married or even started dating so both of them are at least 6 to 7 years old, probably older. After having Nash, I took a ton of pictures. I had taken a lot before over the years and had them on the computer. Chris's cousin took like 400 when Nash was born and probably about the same amount for his new born pictures. So, back then I was not thinking and put all of them on my computer. Needless to say the computer filled up pretty fast with those and adding mine and then I started putting pictures on the lap top. Also, my previous camera I put it on I believe it's the VGA setting which apparently does not take up as much room as my new camera that is on I guess the JPG setting (not sure on that just know the pictures are huge). Well then the lap top started filling up. So, I thought about deleting some of those pictures of his newborn and hospital pictures because I have them on cd's and printed out and there are several that are really similar. So, that gave me room. So, now I am starting to put pictures back on the computer. To attempt to solve these problems, Chris bought me one of those Free Agent Go's because I saw them advertised on tv to store and back up pictures. This thing had little to no instructions other than just hooking it up to the computer and having it periodically save to the hard drive. Well, I don't know how to get them off of there or transfer them. Granted I have not tired all that hard to figure that out. Also, I bought a program from my aunt that helps organize pictures. We are supposed to be getting together for her to show me all the ends and outs of it. I guess my problem is that I want them to be all on one computer, organized, and on a computer that can hold them all. This project feels overwhelming to me. Because our computers are not the newest, I mentioned getting a new lap top to my husband and surprisingly he was okay with it. I HATE HATE HATE to spend money if I don't feel like it is needed. So, even though he does not care I need to know that it is needed and a good investment before I would feel okay about going ahead and getting one. So you people out there who are more organized than I have been with your pictures, know more about computers than I do, and have any suggestions on how to go about fixing my problem I would greatly appreciate any advice. I need to simply all of this. It is making me feel crazy and very unorganized which I hate and I really don't know how to go about fixing it which is making me put it off and making the problem worse. So ideally what I would like to do is take the pictures off of one or both computers (if we get a new lap top) put them all on one computer, go through them and be able to organize them with the program I bought from my aunt and still use the Free Agent to back them up. Also, need to know whether the new lap top is needed to do all of this with. Our computers work fine but are a little slow and have some minor quirks and apparently not a lot of storage. If you know anything about this, please let me know what you think.

aaannnnd we're off!

Tonight Nash showed us that he mastered the skill of the standard forward crawl. This has been a long time coming. Previously, he has made a few forward motions but would give up or really not know what to do. I was excited about those first acomplishments but it was nothing like this. His Elmo phone was being dangled like a carrot on a stick by his mean ol mommy and it totally worked. He ended up going like five feet forward to get that Elmo phone. He has been practicing the forward motion for a while and has not perfected it until tonight. He even showed his dad when he got home. (by the way after sleeping 11 hours last night, only sleeping a little over an hour total today, he has finally gone to bed which is totally not any where near his norm) I guess he knew he was going to do something big tonight on his 9 month birthday and I am so glad I was here for it. Wonderful times. Made my day! Now it is way past my bed time as I normally go to bed when he normally does, a couple of hours ago.

random goings on

*Loving the warm weather-My mood is totally affected by the weather. I want to go, do and be barefoot. It doesn't help that I live on Wisteria Lane (at least one person at each house but ours does not work, people are out in their yards, playing with kids or somehow being active, and socializing)
*Amazed at how smart my little boy is and how much he learns and grows every day. He loves to dance when he hears music played especially his new jazz rabbit that plays the saxophone. His hair pretty much grew and got twice as thick over night. Tons of other examples of this.
*Chris and I "grilled out" for the first time the other night. A big accomplish since both of us have no experience with actually doing it ourselves. It was fun and we feel a little more confident that we can do it and will get better at it with more experience.
*Work was crazy in every sense of the word last week. Hoping for a less stressful week.
*Day Light Savings time has messed up Nash which was expected. Sunday he took a 3 hour nap and woke up during the night. Hoping to get adjusted soon. It always cracks me up that you hear adults who have had to have heard from the news and various other places of the upcoming time change but still forget and have their days messed up because of it.
*I'm sad over a friend of mine going through a difficult time that I can't even begin to imagine and one of my biggest fears. Puts my problems into perspective.
*I am equally happy and sad about planning Nash's first birthday party. I want it to be special because he is so special to me but sad that a year has almost gone by (crazy town).
*Coach's widow. Never heard that term until I married a coach. Basketball is over but it is right on to baseball which pretty much goes until the end of the school year. I am real independent and enjoy my alone time but really miss my husband sometimes too.
*Baths with Nash are surprisingly easier than I thought and more relaxing than I thought.
*I have enjoyed getting together with old friends lately. It is interesting how relationships and people change over the years but still somehow remain friends.
*Looking forward to my family summer beach vacation while a little nervous about the car ride.
*More than a little weirded out by my reoccurring dream where all the sudden I am very pregnant wondering how this happened when Nash was very planned and I have been religiously taking my birth control.
*Understanding more and more how undeservingly blessed I am.
*Proud of a friend of mine who battles with weight issues who is off to a good start all self-motivated.
*Amazed at how active my son is that he now practically runs in his walker and can't stand to get laid down for a diaper change out of fear of missing something but is so sweet and gentle with little babies.
*Elated at the look I get from Nash when I come home from work.
*Surprised in how well I have "trained" my husband in some areas and others totally haven't. Also realizing I need to take better to some of his "training" as well.
* Amazed that my husband's grandparents will be celebrating their 69th wedding anniversary this week.
* After watching a 2 hour Brothers and Sisters special episode, I'm back... emotionally hooked in.
*New favorite commercial -"Give me that Fillet-o-fish give me that fish".
*Very proud of myself for still breastfeeding twice at day at 9 months.

9 month pictures

Nash will be 9 months old on March 10th. My little boy is getting to be a big boy. His new things are; pointing, loves to clap, loves the bath tub and splashing water everywhere, sleeping really good, he has perfected getting to a sitting position from a crawling position, he has gone forward a couple times but still prefers backwards and sideways, he now uses the walker the right way (one foot at a time versus two feet lunges), he loves to stand up and hold on to the coffee table, he is able to semi-walk (take a couple of steps) holding on to the coffee table, and is trying his hardest to pull up. He has his 9 month check up on Friday March 13th so it will be interesting to see how much he has grown. He is such a happy, funny, lovable little boy.

pictures

The older Nash gets the harder it is to get his and Sadie's picture together because Nash likes to pull his hair. So this is not the best picture but the only one I could get the other day.
Nash is working on pulling up. He starts by giving the coffee table post a big bear hug and then...
uses that hug to pull up. He gets up on his knees but has not gotten to his feet yet. I'm scared he is going to bump his head or his eye on the corner of the table. I'm sure that's coming.
I have been hoping for some snow this year to stick and last night's snow was the best we have gotten. So, first thing this morning I dressed Nash warmly and took his picture on what was left of it. As you can tell, he was not crazy about it and seemed to wonder why he was outside in the cold on the cold ground. It was only for a minute though to get a picture of his "first snow".