Alligator

Remember all these alligator pictures I took of Little Guy as a baby?  Well, he never really cared about alligator, until maybe the last 6 months.  He loves that thing now.  We actually see Alligator around the house and out of his bed more than we see his doggy Bubble these days.

18 months

Our baby is one and a half.

The stats. He went to the doctor on Friday, July 24th (2 days shy of his half birthday). He's one ounce shy of 25 lbs. He's 34.5 inches tall (or in B language, 1 foot 10.5 inches). And his head is 19 inches (same as his last check-up). His weight is about 40th percentile. His height is 95th. His head is about 70th.

He's doing really well. His speech is delayed, but way more advanced than Buddy's was at this age. His doctor says it's probably a slight delay, and might not even qualify for the kind of speech therapy Buddy had. We'll keep monitoring him and see what he needs, but I'm happy with how he's progressing. I'll try to add some videos of him "talking" to the blog later.



Here he is at one week.


Here he is at 6 months


Here he is at 1 year.


And here he is at 18 months.




This is what the photo shoot looked like trying to capture of picture of 18 month old Baby X lying next to his alligator. When I got out the alligator B asked if I was going to take his picture with the alligator when he left for college. My response... I'm only doing the big marks now... I did one an now I'm doing one and a half. But it would be fun to have a picture of him holding it when he left for college or something. But really, he's not all that attached to it. Sometimes he pokes it in the eyes, but that's about it.



Some recent shots of him.

Baby X: week by week

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Here's the final project. Baby X with his alligator each week in a onesie and each month in just a diaper. Week 3 and Month 1 are near the dates they should be and are the same picture, no alligator, in the hospital when he had his heart procedure.

12 months aka 1 year

1 week. 52 weeks.

*Once I take his 12 month alligator picture tomorrow,
I'll collage all these in order and you can see how he's grown week to week.

52 Weeks!

My baby boy is 52 weeks old (somehow that I don't want to think too hard about, this is not on his birthday. His one year birthday is Monday, this picture was taken Saturday).

51 weeks

50 weeks

49 weeks

48 weeks

11 months

47 weeks 1 day

46 weeks

45 weeks

10 months

43 weeks

These are getting harder and harder to capture. See below:

42 weeks

41 weeks

40 weeks

Out of me as long as he was in me.

9 months

Baby X was 9 months old on Sunday. NINE MONTHS!!! And he went for his 9 month check-up on Monday. He weighed in at 20 lbs. 9 oz. and is 29 1/2 inches tall and his head measures 18 1/4 in. He crawls, climbs stairs, pulls himself to standing, walks along tables/couches, will stand without holding on for a couple seconds. He says mamamama, dadadada, gagagaga and nanana. He has two teeth on the bottom that have just popped through in the last couple weeks. He is still a bundle of energy.