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03/31/2008: "Off the Charts"

I've said it before - Dessa is big. People are constantly surprised when I tell them her age (10 months today. God it flies...). She's tall and she doesn't have a big baby head so she looks more toddler than baby. When she lays on the floor and kicks at her toys I can really see the child she's going to be more than the infant she was. Of course, then the two pictures blend in my mind's eye and I tear up and can't see anything at all. She affects me that way.

We went to see the doctor on Friday for her regular checkup. She's 21.6 lbs (only a 2.6 lb gain from early December - thank goodness she slowed down!) and 30.5 inches. That's 90-something-th percentile for weight but off the chart for height. I didn't even know there was a 100+ percentile. Yet she's only 50th percentile for head circumference. You'd think that'd make for a Zippy the Pinhead look, but it doesn't.

She's started trying to kiss us lately. As with most babies, she does it with her mouth open. So we kiss her, she smiles, then opens her mouth and sort of wobbles her head around, hoping a cheek will fall into it. It's quite cute, actually, except for the fact that if you maneuver yourself into kissing position, she's as likely to bite you as kiss you.

Her teeth confuse her a bit. Last week I let her feed herself lunch. It was not a great success. Dessa is rather a princess and has my patience (read: none) so when she wants something she wants it now and she'd much prefer if you provided it, thanks. Thus, for example, when we give her Cheerios she happily picks them up, plays with them a bit, gets them stuck to her palm and then opens her mouth like a little bird and looks at us with a look that says, "Feed me". The connection between the Cheerio in her hand and her open mouth has not yet been made and she hates having her hands messed with, so we can't push her hand toward her mouth to give her the idea. That pisses her off. So you can imagine exactly how happy she was with a bowl of applesauce, a spoon and... nobody shoveling it into her baby bird mouth. She tried the spoon for a while, eventually trying to eat the wrong end, and then in a fit of pique she picked up the entire bowl and pulled it to her face. Result? Applesauce all down the front of her, all over the high chair tray and very little in her mouth.

I had anticipated this, so timed the self-feeding extravaganza for just before bath time. It's going to take a while before she gets the hang of it. We'll keep working on it. For now...

I'll just take more blackmail pictures.

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on Tuesday, April 1st, Jeannie said

Teething biscuits and mum-mums. These are big, so the coordination issues are less confusing. At least for Kiki, it made the transition to Cheerios make sense to her. The little things still stick to her hands, but now she knows to look for them. Of course she has the patience of a saint. I honestly don't know where she got it. It must be from her dad.