Walker's 6 month appointment

Walker had his 6 month appointment today! He was perfect, of course.  He's got some crazy measurements though, but I'm confident things will even out over the next year or two.  His head was 18 inches, 98%…his length was 24.5, not even 2%…and his weight was 17 lb 7 oz, 48%.  Seriously all over the board.  Starting with a huge noggin. :) He's rolling, sitting with a little help, holding toys, chewing everything in sight, (mainly tags and burp cloths and bibs are his thing) grabbing and pulling everything in sight, pushing himself around in the walker, laughing and smiling, cooing and squealing, and just being a perfect baby. he's a great sleeper and eater too.

Anyway, Dr Aaron said he looked great and was on the way to being even more awesome! He's passing all of his milestones and is really doing great for being so premature. I'm so proud of him for enduring so much at the beginning of his tiny life.  He is such a stud.  What a lucky mama I am.  [and just for kick and giggles, I included a pic of Savannah getting dropped off today]

Comparisons

Just look at these two! They look SO much alike and so different at the same time! Savannah on the left, Walker on the right!

Savannah-isms

Savannah says pretty hilarious stuff, I think.  She mostly is an excellent talker and speaks very clearly, but there are juuuust a few words she says backwards or has her own way of saying them, or it's just plain funny.  For my memory, here they are:

Old McDonut
Hold you, Mama (hold me, mama)
Baybuh (baby)
SaySay (CC)
I cry.  I cry for mommy. [which breaks my heart every time!]
Now my know my ABCs
Ki-addo (Caddo)
Mee-ulk (milk)
That yours?
Divio (Video)
Mecinene (medicine)
I wanna watch a liiiiitle tv
peas (please) [she already quit doing this one, and I was honestly sad to hear that "L" appear!]
Agaim (again)
More missassage (more massage)
Jesus lives in my heart and in my belly
Opitus (octopus)
Ballerinda (ballerina)
Papunzel (Rapunzel)
Peace-a (pizza)
What you doing?
You want that?
What you got?
Me: "Savannah, are you a crazy monkey?" Savannah: "No, I'm Savannah Cate Morledge!"
Okaymm (okay)
Sare! (Share)
Sare, mommy! [usually in regards to some food or sweet, but sometimes toys]
Cool (school) [she has now corrected this one]
Flossy! (flopsy) [her bunny lovey]
Raisin-y Flossy [her flopsy that has a kind of bumpy face-she has like 5 or 6 altogether]
Main Flossy [her favorite oldest flopsy]
New Flossy [her new flospy I bought since her old ones are almost embarrassingly gross looking]
Cool Flossy [her flopsy that lives at school]
     (In case you are wondering, she has another at Nana and Gran's house also but it doesn't have a name)

What an adorable little girl we've got! I think we'll keep her for always!

Adventures in Sitting Up

Walker is reallllly interested in sitting up and wants to do it all the time.  Unfortunately he can't really sit up on his own for more than 5 or so seconds.  But, what a cutie! (and loving his shirt, On The Hunt For Chicks. hehehe perfect for Easter!)

FULL of concentration.  Look at that face! ^

Weekend Update

Well we had a pretty low-key weekend around here, Miss Savannah ended up on Thursday with a yucky UTI and we spend most of the morning at the doctor's office.  Poor poor girl was in so much pain.  She got some meds and is doing a lot better! She's got a little diaper rash and a low appetite, both I think from the antibiotic.  I hate to see her have to go through these, but considering it is only her 3rd UTI since she was diagnosed with the hydronephrosis at 6 weeks old, I am counting her lucky.  Other than that, we just did a few things around the house, ran some errands, went out to eat a few times, went to church, and then Birc and I got a movie date on Friday night! He's been dying to see the new Captain America movie and I like the Marvel comic movies too, so we were thrilled.  Anna and Aaron kindly played with our kids and put Walker to bed.  It was a great little getaway :)

Hope you all had a great weekend too!

Savannah isn't a huge fan of going to church because she goes to the nursery and she gets sad to get left by mama and daddy.  It's hard.

Walker is happy as a clam to have new toys to play with! I am eating it up while I can until his separation anxiety starts!

Our Weekend [+ a few spring break things]

We had a very low key weekend! My favorite kind! Friday night my cousin Emily came by and ate dinner with a friend and she was the best play friend ever for Savannah.  Savannah thought everything Emily did was JUST AWESOME and was so wired!  We got some yard work done on Saturday and had a little bit of a family movie night on Saturday night (Lion King) (more on that later) and went to church Sunday and went to Nana and Gran's Sunday night.

Also last week, I took Savannah to the Wonder Place to play one day, and a few other pictures are posted here that are cute and I forgot to blog about it. Picnic in the den.  smiling babies.  sleeping babies. playing siblings. Jemimah Puddleduck dress of Anna's that Savannah is now wearing.

Sand table [where, just for my memory, my "mama bear" instinct kicked in for about the first time ever.  Another little girl playing at the table kept swiping all of the toys Savannah would pick up, and kept dumping out all of the bins Savannah would fill with sand.  The mom just kept talking on her phone and glancing over every so often, telling the little girl to share. Savannah was such a good girl each time her stuff got swiped, and would just turn around to me with a sad face and a pouty lip, but when I would tell her to find something else, she would.  We only left the sand table so I didn't tackle the kid.]

water table. ew.

play kitchen

the "sandwich" Savannah made for me with the play food.  Obv I looked hungry.

What Walker thought of the Wonder Place. :)

the "River Market" it is a mimic of the River Market in our downtown with a little farmer's market set up for her to shop in.

Notice the scanner in her right hand, she is scanning all of her items. She loves to shop.

Veterinarian Savannah

she kept singing "Time for your checkup, time for your checkup!" from doc mcstuffins.

Lastly, I have a really big week at work this week.  Probably the busiest week of the school year.  So this might be the only blog post this week.  We'll see what I can get done! Happy April!