Last week, on the 23rd, Liam had his first tooth pop through! It is the front bottom left one (from Liam's point of view). Finally at 9 months old, he's starting to get some teeth! However, Liam is such a bad teether and we've had so many rough nights that I wished he would be toothless forever. But now that things seem to have calmed down a little bit, I retract that thought! He has been mostly fine during the day, but there were some nights when he woke up a million times because of it. He hasn't been screaming in pain, but it's been messing with him for sure. He also has been more irritable and hasn't wanted to eat as much solid food. Thankfully, he hasn't had a fever. (Can I just say that I'm thankful Liam has NEVER had a fever? I probably just jinxed it, though.) I think the right one will pop through soon as well, and the front top two seem like they won't be too far behind. Mr. Chompers!
Last year, Dallas in February meant lots of snow and ice and being trapped indoors for 6 days because the outside stairs were too treacherous for me at 6 months pregnant. This year, Dallas in February has meant mild and warm pleasant days with temps in the 70s. So we've been able to get out and go for some walks. On Leap Day, the weather was beautiful so I decided that would be the day Liam got to swing at the park for the first time. Of course, we could've let him swing before because he's been big enough for awhile. We just never did. So we drove to the park (it is close enough to walk to, but we didn't have a ton of time). There were just a couple kids at the playground and no one on the swings (school wasn't quite out yet). I plopped Liam in the baby swing and gently pushed him. He smiled! I was hoping it wouldn't make him nauseous, and it didn't. Of course he had to look at everything going on around him. I think he was too distracted watching the kids play, people walk by with their dogs, and the ducks at the pond to really get into the swinging. After the initial pleasant reaction, he didn't really look at me much! After the swinging, we walked down to the pond and watched the ducks. Then we watched some people feed the ducks some bread. It really was a lovely day at the park!
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| Swinging is just ok |
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| No wait, it's fun! |
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| Watching the ducks |
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| Eating puffs at the park |
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| Gnawing on his crinkle book at the park |
Also on February 29th, Liam had an appointment to get his band adjusted. Our regular therapist was there this time. She measured his head and it had only grown 1 mm...in a month! So, we really need some prayer that he will have a significant growth spurt soon and that his head will grow, grow, grow. It won't make any progress unless it grows. Since he had so little growth recently, It's likely he will be able to wear the band longer than 5 more weeks. He needs to. There is still shapening (pretty sure I just made that word up!) that needs to be done! If it ends up like it is now, that's not horrible. With more hair, it will probably look fine. But, yes, let's hope it does change some more!
Last night Liam was playing with his push toy. He usually just messes with the toys on it and will occasionally pull up to standing while holding on to it. I was in the kitchen and Will was playing with Liam. The I heard Will say, "Great job, Liam!" so I asked what he did. He said Liam took a few steps standing behind his push toy (holding on, of course). I had a to get a look, and sure enough, he was taking some steps! So proud of him. He definitely has a desire to stand up and walk. He keeps getting better at standing by himself. I think the longest has been 10 seconds. And he loves to walk if we hold his hands. He will even kind of run doing that. So now he's putting the steps together! I really do think he will walk independently before he's a year old.
Also, we are now looking for a house or (more likely) a duplex to rent. Once Liam starts walking, he will start running, so we're hoping to find a place around here we can afford. No luck so far, but I'm hopeful that we will find something. Please be on the lookout for us!
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