It seems like I was just writing our three month letter yesterday. Time marches on. You've had another eventful month but no surprise there. Last week we traveled to Charlottesville to have a check-up for your hernia surgery. While the wait was very long and the actual time spent with the doctor very brief, you had an excellent report. Your hernia incisions have healed perfectly, you just have two very neat little battle scars. You also measured 24 inches long and weighed in at 12.5 pounds! In other health news, you tested negatively for both milk and soy allergies so I hope as you read this whether you are 11 or 27 you are eating a big bowl of ice cream!
At the end of August we traveled to Richmond for the day to visit with our #hanily! These are friends Mommy and Aunt Whitney made at a Hanson show about a year ago now. At the time you were not yet in existence and we had no idea how our lives were about to change! Despite you having a tough day because of a different schedule, it was a nice day for mommy & co. as some of us had not seen each other for a year.
You also went on your first vacation to the Outer Banks in North Carolina. It was a great time for us to be together as a family for a few days. Your daddy woke us up at 7a.m. on Thursday morning so that we could get down to the ocean! On that first day, despite our efforts, your little cheeks got burned! I felt like the worst mommy ever, but you recovered just fine. After that, we shielded you even more from the sun. You also got to hang out with the Madayag family, which was much fun! You were quite well behaved, as we sat by the pool, on the beach, or in restaurants. In the weeks since then you have decided that you don't really like being in restaurants all that much. I think you may become a homebody like your father!
Last weekend you spent your first night away from home at Beba and Papa Tate's house. Your Beba waited with great anticipation all week long for you to come visit! You watched football and cartoons with Papa and were apparently very good all night long for your Beba. Daddy and I went to celebrate Aunt Whitney's 30th birthday and we had a great time but we missed you very much! We were very happy to have you home on Sunday afternoon.
You have become very vocal which is so exciting! We love hearing you chatter away as you play under your activity gym and I wonder just what you are thinking. You continue to get better holding your head up and you like to sit up on anyone's lap and scope things out. You have also begun to drool a lot and bring everything you get your hands on to your mouth. You are grabbing at your feet and lifting them high into the air but you haven't gotten those to your mouth yet. I suspect this will happen soon. Also, you love your little blanket toy with Squirt from Finding Nemo on it! You hug him to you, suck on his little feet, and pull him to your nose or over your face before you nap. This is especially sweet since that is the first movie your Daddy took me to on a date. Because you love your Squirt so much, I have ordered you another to have on standby!
You're getting better at tummy time, Beba bought you a fun pillow to play with! And you are still sleeping well in your crib. However, you have gotten so wiggly that last night you kept repeatedly turning from sleeping vertically as you should to stretching out horizontally across the crib which means you were inevitably getting your feet through the bars of the bed. You have a sleep sack and more on the way so hopefully that will deter the feet through the rails issue.
Love,
Mom
