"Men are what their mothers made them." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saturday, June 21, 2008

What can we say?...95th Percentile


Cash turned eight months on Tuesday but he's ahead of the game already. The running joke is he's in the 95th percentile, though technically just in height. We've decided that applies to everything though and is our catch-all for his amazing feats.
I was reading about all of the movement, speech, hand, etc. milestones in the baby book the doctor gives you at the first visit (for birth through five years of age; and this book is so big you could kill someone with it). From eight to twelve months he's supposed to start sitting up unsupported, crawl, get from non sitting to sitting as well as from sitting to non sitting,
pull himself up to standing, inch his way along furniture with walking, and stand unsupported for a second or two. So my question is, if he's already done all this before eight months, what is he really going to do in the next four months? I mean, all he really has left to do is walk on his own. Like I said, 95th percentile baby...
We checked him yesterday and he's up to 19 pounds. I didn't get an exact measurement with height yet; kind of need two people to do that one because of all the squirming.
Some other things Cash does as of eight months are: turns pages in a book, climbs stairs, pushes the ball with his head, throws things, searches and finds everything, has one tooth and another one on the way... Our one complaint is the sleeping. He REALLY doesn't like to sleep. And that's where my parents would say "like mother like son."
Cash's food horizons are broadening every day. He's eating sweet potatoes, green beans, peas, carrots, corn, lentils, butternut squash, apples, bananas, peaches, pears, grapes, strawberries, avacados, rice, barley, and oatmeal. So many more foods to add...
You may notice that our eight month pictures are on the less fantabulous side. Being that Cash is more mobile he's not as cooperative a subject these days...
It's been dreadfully hot again here, which just means more swimming experiences. Love to you all!

1 comment:

Mary Helen said...

So exactly how tall is he?

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