9 Months Old

Our little peanut is somehow 9 months old. She is constantly on the go and always wants to be standing up and walking around something. She still has an ear infection, today at her 9 month check we had to get our first Rocephin shot and have to go back on Friday for a follow up and her second shot. Thankfully, she is still eating normally and sleeping through the night. She has been an amazing sleeper ever since early January, she consistently goes to bed between 6:30 and 7 each night and wakes up around 6:30, sometimes we even need to wake her up in the morning! It is still crazy to me that she sleeps 12 hours every night. It probably helps that she is such a busy girl, the majority of days she doesn't get great naps (if any) in at daycare because there is always something going on or someone to play with so she cant miss out - she still has serious FOMO :) She loves table food and always wants to feed herself. She is constantly babbling and almost has a wave down. She has also recently started turning pages of books by herself (usually with a lot of force and before we are ready for the next page but it still counts right? ). Every day she seems to be turning more and more into a little person vs my little baby. 

Other great news - Tuesday morning she woke up and her chalazion (eye lump) was gone!! It finally drained during the night. Hopefully it is gone for good. 

9 Month Stats:

Head Size: 17.2" - 47%

Weight: 17 lbs 1 oz - 30%

Length: 26.8" - 18% (woohoo we finally reached double digits!)

Peyton's 5th Birthday Party

Peyton turned 5 on March 5th so this Saturday we headed back to Fairfax for the day to celebrate. Peyton wanted to go bowling so we met at May City Bowl for a few games and I was pretty pumped to beat Brian in both games, something that never happens! Leah had a great time watching all of her cousins bowl. 

 Too busy watching the lanes to smile. 

Hanging with Auntie Tara. It was her birthday today so we got to celebrate her as well!

All the Meyers cousins snacking before dinner. 

With Aunt Jamie

Great day spent with family! 

Bowzer's Surgery

On Monday Bowzer had surgery to fix his torn cranial cruciate ligament (dog ACL). He had been limping by the end of the day a lot lately, even when we hadn't done any physical activity, so we brought him into the vet last week. He confirmed that it was a torn ACL and had an opening for surgery on Monday. Since it is a 12 week recovery we were happy to get it scheduled so that he will hopefully be all healed by the time it gets nice out and most importantly, in time for pool season!  Bowzer had to stay overnight Monday so when we picked him up Tuesday night he was very ready to come home. He somehow managed to pull Brian out the door on only three legs! He is still hesitant to put any weight on his hurt leg so has been hobbling around. It's sad not having our happy puppy following us around the house but hopefully he will have a fast recovery and be back to 100% in no time! Not to mention he looks pretty silly right now with one shaved leg and some other patches of hair missing :) 

Rawhides make the pain a little more manageable 

Getting used to being confined in the basement since Bowz can't do stairs. Poor boy!

Double Ear Infection

This past Sunday Leah wasn't acting her happy self and was tugging on her left ear on and off so on Monday I decided to schedule a doctors appointment to get her ears checked out. We got in Tuesday morning and found out that her infection in her right ear hadn't gone away and now she also has one in her left ear. Poor little peanut! We are back on antibiotics but luckily this type we only have to take once a day as Leah isn't a fan of taking medicine. We saw a different doctor and he also prescribed us some ointment to hopefully help speed up getting rid of the chalazion (lump on her eye).

I also gave in and scheduled an eye appointment for Leah and we had that Monday morning. The ophthalmologist confirmed that it was a chalazion and that it isn't any danger to her it her vision. There isn't much we can do about it besides waiting or surgery. Since it requires the patient to be put under and it doesn't seem to bother her, we opted for the waiting option. So we will keep doing the warm compresses and try out the ointment and hopefully it will go away sooner than later!

Waiting for the ophthalmologist. She actually did very well in the waiting area, it must have helped that she wasn't feeling good since she is usually very loud!

New Favorite Toy - Push Walker

Leah has recently discovered the walker that her Aunt Tara got her for Christmas and it has instantly become her favorite toy. She loves pulling herself up on it and playing with all the features on the face of the lion. She has even braved a few wobbly steps with our help, one or two one her own.  But then tonight as I was playing on my phone (which I know I do way too much :) ) I look up and she is taking steps across the room with it all on her own! She even repeated it enough times for me to get a decent video.

Our little peanut is going to be walking before we know it! She is growing up so fast. 

8 Months Old

This week Leah came down with her first ear infection. Tuesday at daycare Miss Pinky told me that Leah had fought both her bottles which was very unusual. Luckily, we had our follow up flu shot on Wednesday so I came to my appointment with so many questions/concerns that we were switched to a regular visit. Thankfully our pediatrician, Dr. Boonstra, was available to see us. After a quick peek in her ears he said she had an ear infection in her right ear. This was good in a way, as I was very worried about how I would get Leah to drink enough milk each day if she cut down at school. I'm lucky if I get her to nurse for five minutes at a time at home!! So that solved concern #1, how much breast milk does she need a day? Answer - there isn't a 'set' amount. Every baby is different. They need enough to grow at a healthy pace and to not become dehydrated. In other words, he wasn't worried at all that she wasn't getting enough and didn't think this would ever be an issue. Concern #2; Leah has had what appears to be a sty on her right eyelid for two months now. It has never pussed or seemed to bother her but it really worries me. At her 6 month check they said not to worry about it and to try putting a warm compress on it for 5-10 minutes a couple times a day. Yeah, like that will be easy with a very busy baby! The only time I can get her to let me put the washcloth on is at our bedtime feeding.... Two minutes a day is better than none right? It hasn't gone away but the Doc still didn't seem concerned, he did up the dosage on the ear medicine in hopes of knocking both problems out at once. If that doesn't take care of it, then we might have to try some drops next. And lastly, Leah's left breastbud has been very hard lately. I was told this is nothing to be worried about and that it is normal and happens occasionally. So we are off to try our first round of 10 days of antibiotics and hopefully it does the trick! Despite all this, Leah is as happy as can be and still sleeping from 7-6:30 every night. If it weren't for her not wanting her bottle, we wouldn't have even known she had an ear infection. We are so blessed with how happy our little girl is!

Cracking up at her Dad. She is getting so much hair!

Other new developments - since we have been officially crawling for a whole week now we are ready for bigger and better things... Pulling ourselves up on EVERYTHING and trying to take steps with her walker! 

If you look close you can see her sty. And look at that adorable little belly :)

What do you mean slow down?! I'm ready to go Mom! 

Her cute little butt in action :) Crazy how much I love this little girl!! 

We've Got a Crawler!

Leah is now officially on the move. Which is scary because we have yet to get our baby gate up! Her favorite things to get her on the go are our cell phones, my Camelbak and me.

Since she has mastered the crawl, she has already moved on to bigger and better things, pulling herself up/climbing on everything. Her new favorite 'thing' to climb up on (and all over) is of course Bowzer. Luckily he just lays there and takes whatever she throws at him :)

Not the best picture since, as usual, Leah doesn't stay still for long!

We are so blessed that Leah has two sets of amazing Grandparents in her life.  This weekend we got to play with Grandma & Grandpa Meyers and last weekend Grandma Deaner & Papa came to visit.  It is so great having them close enough that they can drive up for the day to visit!