I have been so bad at blogging lately, I'm sorry but here it is....
Holy moly Cadence is now 9 1/2 months. I know I keep saying this, and I probably always will but, she is growing sooo fast and where has the time gone? At about 8 3/4 months she took her first steps unassisted. Granted she only took maybe 3 steps but I still consider that walking. Now at 9 1/2 months she is definately walking!! This is so much fun. Yes she does get into everything and we have to take baby proofing to a whole different level, but that's what I expected when I had her... :)
Right now Cadence loves the bathroom. If I take my eyes off of her for 15 seconds she's gone and this is where I find her!!! I don't know what it is about unrolling all of the toilet paper off it's roll, eating it, and then knocking all the shampoo and body washes off the ledge into the tub that is so much fun... but it is to her..Like seriously, it doesn't take much to entertain this one. And toys? Forget about buying them, she could careless about them. She'd rather tear her socks of her feet and shove them in her mouth.
She is wearing some 3-6 month clothing still but also some 1T stuff, it really all depends on where I get her clothes from. She's in a size 3 diaper and probably won't grow out of these ones for a little while longer.
Oh and some awesome news too, she's no longer breastfeeding and is finally drinking formula!! Hooray for us right? She's also eating a lot of solids, she doesn't like the pureed stuff so we just give her the more chunkier foods and she does most excellent with it!!
These last couple of weeks have been really hard for me and I don't know if it's because my hormones are changing from weaning Cadence or if it's the fact that I'm back to work after such a short year off but I've been an emotional wreck. It's so hard to think that only 9 months ago I gave birth to her and now she's closer to being 1 than she is to being a newborn...she's changing so much and morphing from my little baby to a little toddler and it breaks my heart!! I just want her to stay my little baby, and I'm always wanting to coddle her and cuddle her and treat her like a baby but she wants nothing to do with that! I don't know maybe it's time for another baby!! Ha ha ha only kidding of course... :/ Anyways back to Cadence....
She has 3 teeth and is just working on pushing that 4th one out. These top teeth have been a really long, painful process!! Poor girl.. She is also babbling a lot, she says Mama and Dada and can distinguish between the two. She also says uh-oh when she drops something, says no to me when I tell her no (note: she also throws huge tantrums when told she can't have or do something) and she also makes little monkey noises. I just love this little girl and I get so excited to wake up and start the day with her.
9 month Stats:
Weight: 19lbs 3oz
Height: 29 inches
Doctor said she is in the 50th Percentile for Weight and 90th for Height.
Andrew and I have had a really difficult month this last month. We've been trying to make a lot of decisions about work, school, etc. and to be quite honest we still don't know what we're going to do. But as of today Andrew is no longer going to install for VIVINT, which honestly is a huge relief because he was going to be gone for 4 months to BC, leaving Cadence and I. Cadence and I couldn't go with him because I made the decision to go back to work and well that just wouldn't work out obviously. Plus Andrew was going to leave his now job at EXEL and come back after 4 months to nothing, so honestly that wasn't a safe plan at all! We also took this decision to the temple and literally that night neither one of us could sleep and felt sick about his decision so needless to say that plan was kicked out!! Back to the drawing boards.
Just 3 weeks ago Andrew took his resume to a job fair that was put on by the company Charlton and Hill, and found out that what he is doing now is a trade and that he can get the paperwork going for apprenticeship! He has 2 years of work experience already and in only 1-2 years can be a journeyman Parts Technician and Materials Technician... 2 trades in one job!! So we got the paperwork to do that, and literally the day we went to get the paperwork Charlton and Hill called Andrew for an interview. The whole 2 years we've been married Andrew has applied to almost 9 jobs and not once got called back for an interview. So this is really exciting....I know it's the economy, but we're still trying and we are soooo greatful that Andrew even has a job right now, but he is unhappy and I hate watching him be depressed and come home and be grumpy to us. SO Ya Change is a must right now!!
As for me, I made the final decision to go back to work. This was the hardest decision I think I have ever had to make. I will have a hard time leaving my daughter for 6 hours/day but at this point my income is necessary. I am only going back to accrue another year of Mat Leave and getting pregnant again, because once you start your family you can't stop now. So April 4, 2011 will be my first day back at work. I am so nervous to go back, it's like starting a new job all over again, and I'm nervous that I forgot how to do my job. But I'm sure it's like riding a bicycle and I'll be just as good as I was before I left. I'm excited that I'm not pregnant though because running to get patients when I was, was exhausting. WHOO!!
Anyways, that's all I can think of for now...I'll put picture up on this one and the video of her walking on another post... TTFN
Posts
