1. My baby's two front teeth grew in slanted and it looked like he had fangs. He looked like a baby vampire. It was a little disconcerting because he looks like an cherub with his blue eyes and shiny blond hair and then he would open his mouth...
2. My baby loves to pull hair. If you only have a half of inch of hair, he'll find a way to pull it. Our nightly family prayer is a dangerous time; all those heads of hair bowed down with eyes closed. He's like a little kid in a candy store. He usually grabs a handful from 2 separate heads.
3. My baby thinks his big brother Tater Tot is the funniest person on this earth. Tater Tot will do something cute and the baby will laugh and laugh but Louie or Teeny will do the same thing and he just stares at them.
4. My baby loves toes. I would catch him chewing on his toes and laugh because I was sure that he thought that they were thumbs. When you're that small, they kind of look alike. But he hasn't sucked or chewed on his thumbs in months yet he's still sucking on toes. So, I've decided that he must of thought his thumbs were toes and that's why he would suck on them.
5. My baby is fascinated by our dog's tongue. Every time he sees our dog, he tries to grab Jamba's tongue. It's a little scary. He just blindly sticks his hand into the dog's mouth... I admit to having a mini heart attack the first time that happened. Thus far, Jamba has never bitten him. I'm quite proud of Jamba because a year ago things would have been different.
6. My baby loves shoes. He doesn't want to wear them, he wants to lick them. It gross and disgusting but what do you do. There are 8 people living in my house which equals a whole lot of shoes. There's just no way to keep him away from shoes. I tell myself that he's just building up immunities as I substitute the shoe with a cracker.
7. My baby was having a hard time gaining weight. At his 3rd month check up, he was in the 10th percentile for weight. Then at his 6th month check up he went all the down to the 3rd percentile. He was nursing all the time and even had a bottle of formula a day. He was even eating rice cereal. It just didn't make sense. So his doctor politely suggested giving him more bottles of formula each day because sometimes a Mom's milk can go a little skim. So we did and he gained 2lbs. in one month. Yay! At his 9 month check up he was in the 49th percentile for weight!!!!!
8. My Baby sneaks into the bathroom every chance he can get so that he can turn on the hot water and stick his hand in it. We try to keep the door shut as much as we can but Tater Tot knows how to open doors now and doesn't fully appreciate the concept of why we need to keep the bathroom door shut. Needless to say, I check to see if the bathroom is shut about 100 times a day.
9. My baby was named after a great-grandfather from my side and Mr. Ella's side. At least, his middle name is named after them. I couldn't bring myself to give him Henry as a first name. It just didn't feel right. His great-grandfather on my side was Henry Jones. His great-grandfather on Mr. Ella's side was Patrick Henry Hannon. We fondly referred to our baby as O'Henry before he was born. I even hunted down an O'Henry chocolate bar (They're hard to find here in Idaho. Only one store carries them.) and gifted it to my husband right before I was scheduled for the c-section.
10. My baby has blue eyes the color of blue jeans and blond hair that looks like it's being lit up from the inside. He is adorable! We have a friend, a hair stylist, who covets his hair every time she sees him.
Ella
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