NEW BLOG ADDRESS!

I'm combining Kaylee & Andy's blogs! I know I haven't posted much in the past month or so -- the holidays are always too crazy with so much going on! I also realized I usually just post the same thing to both blogs, with maybe a couple different photos or slightly different text. So to make it easier for me, as well as to have just one blog to keep track of for readers (the 2 there are?? :) ), I've combined the blogs and have them at a new address - so please bookmark this for future posts!

caesarfam.blogspot.com

Bye, bye bottles...already?

Andy has 4 bottles/day. Since Kaylee was not keen on having her formula/milk in a bottle and I ended up going cold turkey switching her from bottles to sippy cups at about 11.5 months old and as a result she didn't drink much (any?) milk for about 3 days, I thought maybe I'd try to start getting Andy used to drinking formula from a sippy cup now and ease him into it - if he pushed it away, we'd just go back to bottles, but I'd at least offer it once/day for a while and go from there. He decided to just take right to it and has now had 6 sippy cups of milk in a row - his last bottle was the lunchtime one yesterday. Go, Andy! Of course the only sippy cup that works well for him right now is the freebie one (Pampers brand) we got at his 9 month pediatrician visit...so I've had to wash it in between each use. The others we have seem to let too much into his mouth at a time and he either can't swallow it right and coughs on it, or pulls the cup away and some pours down his chin. I went out and bought another brand tonight (they didn't have the Pampers one where I went), so hopefully those will work for him. If not, we might be heading out to see if we can find a few more Pampers ones tomorrow!

8 teeth!

As of late this morning (at least by the time I noticed), Andy's 8th tooth popped through - so now he's got big toothy grins for everyone, with all 8 front middle teeth in! Well, big grins for everyone as long as the separation anxiety doesn't kick in...

Merry Christmas!

New Tooth! Blowing Kisses! Crawling!

Andy had a lot of firsts yesterday! In the morning, I noticed his 7th tooth had broken through (on bottom right, next to the middle one). Also in the morning, he started "blowing kisses" (either a fist to/in the mouth that he pulls slightly away or a flat palm against his mouth that he pulls slightly away). Then in the evening he took his first crawling "steps" (or whatever you'd call them). He'd sort of been crawling backwards for a week or so, but just a little bit at a time and on accident, as he was really just getting on his hands and knees then would move backward as he tried to sit back up and would end up about a foot or so behind where he had been before...which frustrated him as he was then further from where he was trying to get to in the first place. He seems to be a reluctant crawler, though. He moans/cries the entire time as he's crawling to his destination. I'm sure within a few days he'll be all over the place and we'll be putting the gate up at the bottom of our stairs!

These photos are from 11/15 - his 9 month "birthday."

9 Month Photos

Here are some photos we did a couple weeks ago with Denise Crull Photography. Once again, Andy was not doling out the big smiles - I think he has another tooth (or two?) coming in on the bottom and he's had a runny nose. Of course the day we met for the photos was the worst runny-nose day he had! But here are the pics...




Don't you love his expression in the family photo? "Are we done yet??" And we actually took the family one first...

Andy at 9 Months

Andy's 9 month checkup was Friday. He is now 29" long and 21lb 2oz! Growing, growing! He only had to have one shot this time, but was still very unhappy about it. He actually started crying every time we laid him down on the counter, so he cried 2-3 times before he even got his shot! Oh, well. After the appointment we went to Slope's BBQ and Andy had some barbecue pork, bread and french fries, and he gobbled it all up. Kaylee thinks it's funny because we call him an eating machine!