Freckle Eye Fancy

NINE MONTHS!!! The last nine months have gone at a really great pace; not too fast, not too slow. But it’s weird to think that in only three months he’s going to be one. I swear, it was just Christmas and he was only six months old. Each month just keeps getting more and more fun, though. As he develops and gets more interactive, we keep having the best times. He really is so great! We had his nine month appointment earlier today and were surprised by his stats!! At his six month appointment, he was in the 11th percentile for weigh, 0 percentile for height, and 57th percentile for his head. Things have changed so much!! He weighs 17 pounds 1 oz (5th percentile), is 27 inches tall (12th percentile!!), and is in the 33rd percentile for head. He has only grown three inches, but that made a big difference in the percentiles, which is good! And it’s normal for babies to thin out as they start getting mobile, which he definitely has! Around my birthday he finally started to be able to sco...

Well, I’ve been 28 for five days now, and I’m not really sure that anything has changed. But I am sure that this is how people wind up saying “where has the time gone” when they hit fifty. Some days I feel I was just in high school, and other days I feel like I’ve lived a million lives. Time is just the weirdest thing. I like the sound of 28 though. It sounds like a good, solid, number. It also sounds like the age where you should have your crap together, which I most definitely do not. But I’ve gotten decently good at pretending. We spent my birthday weekend relaxing and eating, basically our two favorite things. On Saturday, we hung out with family for a few hours, then got Mexican food for dinner. And on Sunday, it was the same thing, but with Costa for dinner. Our favorite thing to do for the past eight and a half months is to just hang out at home as a family and watch Hudson grow, and I couldn’t think of a better way to spend my birthday. For the last three birthdays now, I al...