Oma's Pumpkin Patch

Today we headed out to Oma's Pumpkin Patch for our annual playgroup trip. This year, we were there to celebrate the birthday of one of Nathan's friends little brother. The kids had a blast sliding on the cottonseed hill, on the tractor ride around the farm and all the other things that Oma's has to offer. This year the weather was cool for a change. It actually felt like fall!

A Night In the Life of Nathan

Nathan is super into music these days. Not the typical kiddie music, but what Brian and I listen too. Every night he goes onto youtube.com on his own and watches videos and memorizes the lyrics. Here he is before bed the other night:

9 months

Kira is now 9 months old. A lot has occurred in the last month. Kira is pulling up to standing on everything. She has begun walking with a push toy and stands alone for brief moments! Her top teeth finally came through and with them a little more sleep at night. She is still not sleeping through the night, but has consistently been sleeping 6.5-7 hours straight until last night when she was up after 3 hours a couple of times. She also has a cold right now. Kira is babbling now and attempting to say a few words. For example she consistently says KKKK for kitty and gggg when she is looking at the dog. When you ask her where your nose is she will grab my nose, when I ask where the dog is, she scans the room for Milo. Kira waving bye bye and finger feeding lots of foods. She has recently added cheese, yogurt and egg yolk to her diet.

We had her 9 month well check today. She continues on her own curve. She weighs 15lbs and is in the 1%tile. She is 26.5 inches, which is the 18th percentile and her head is 17.5, which is 65%, so she is a small baby with a big head. Dr. Berent continues to feel she is fine. He said that between 6-9 months kids typically gain 1.5 lbs, which she did. He gave us the go ahead to add more high calorie foods. Anyway, she continues to be small but mighty!

Philanthropy

The kids and I have been participating in walks to raise money for research for various causes. On September 11, we participated in the National Brain Tumor walk in San Diego in honor of our good friends Madeline and Sydney who lost their mom and grandma to a brain tumor earlier this year. Today we joined all of our special education friends from Miller Elementary, where I work, in the Autism Speaks Walk Now for Autism.

Nathan's first Wakeboard Attempt

Nathan's First Wakeboard Attempt from Brian Davies on Vimeo.

First Day of Preschool

Today was Nathan's first day of preschool. He started at Adventure Days in Tierrasanta. When I left this morning, he went right out to the playground and when I picked him up he was happily building rocketships with one of the other boys! He was laughing and having a great time. I think this is going to be a good fit for him!

8-months old!

Kira is 8-months old today! I seriously can't believe that in just 4 months I will have a one-year old. It really does go by in the blink of an eye. Kira has changed a ton in the last month. No teeth still, but we are expecting those top two any, as she has blisters that come and go and you can almost see where one is about to break through. Kira is full on crawling now. No more army crawl and she is everywhere. Her favorite place to navigate too is the kitchen and straight toward the dog bowl. I guess it is time to put the gate back up. She seems to be getting more vocal, as well. She is still not babbling consistently, but I am hearing more sounds everyday. She is also working on pulling herself up on furniture and people. Just today I came around the corner to find her standing up holding onto one of the dining room chairs. Kira continues to add new foods to her menu. At daycare she has had pancakes and waffles and just added some pasta. Jean, her daycare provider described her as a bottomless pit (where it goes I don't know because she is still so tiny!). She moved into Nathan's room over the past month, but is still not sleeping through the night (not even close I am afraid). She seems comfortable in the crib though and for the most part, Nathan doesn't seem to care too much, though he did deliberately wake her up the other night and then claim she was crying so he needed to sleep with us (yeah right buddy!).