We couldn’t have been prouder when Grace looked at her Doctor, smiled, stuck her tongue out and said TTTTHPBT!! “Ah, blowing raspberries.” said DMP (Dr Mary Piel) “That’s a great 5 month old milestone.” (It also means she is ready for the Vice Presidential Debates as an audience member or candidate). Now, we haven’t seen the doctor for a little while so she doesn’t know that Grace and her Dad have been communicating like that for many weeks. So, at six months, she is right on track for a 6-month-old’s social commentary. But that is not the exciting news.
The most exciting news is that Grace weighed in at 16 lbs, 9oz which places her solidly in the 50th percentile of all 6 month olds! The last time we officially weighed her she was in the 25th. But wait, there’s more…in length (26 inches) and head circumference she jumped from the 10th to the 50th percentile! I don’t know if Jiffy Pop or Ball Park “They Plump When You Cook ‘Em” Franks is a better comparison but this kid is fully baked (and delicious)!
In other related food news, the moment Lincoln has been anxiously awaiting has finally arrived! In general he has been indifferent to Grace but that ended as soon as she took her first bites of non-liquid (It is hard to call the squash she was eating “solid” but it is as close as she will get until we see some teeth) food yesterday! Sadly for Lincoln, her hands are not yet able to fling anything to the ground, much less put food in her own mouth so he sat disappointed (but on high alert) as Jenn hit the target accurately over and over again.
For her part, Grace just took the whole food thing in stride, probably wondering why, if there were other options, we have been feeding her formula all this time…and then she promptly fell asleep.
Marilyn
September 30, 2008 at 9:34 pm
what good taste you have in doctors!