David saw Dr. Rabinowitz today. He said David looks good, but he's a little concerned about his talking and thinks he's just a little behind. David doesn't put two words together, and he doesn't say many words, but he does understand almost everything that we say. If we are looking at a book and ask him to point to something on the page, he's usually pretty good about pointing to the correct picture.

David can say Mama, Miriam (mum), ball, water, please, cheese, Daddy, more, eat, go, yes, no, and he kinda says up and down.

David finally went to the doctor again! He got 3 shots. One of them was for chicken pox, so I guess he won't have to get them like the rest of us did!

Dr. Platt was gone today, so David saw a different doctor. Apparently, they sent out cancellation letters, but we never got one. Oh well!

David's height is about the 25th percentile, but his weight is lower than the percentile chart for his age, haha. The doctor said that whole milk would be a good idea for him, and I told him that David switched to it about 2 weeks ago, and the doctor said that probably helped the 1 1/2 lb weight gain over the past 3 months. We have a scale at home that I weigh David on occasionally. He's gained about a pound just since we started the whole milk, so the extra fat and calories from that are good. I've noticed him getting a little heavier.

We got a copy of his Chester Clinic record to take to Dr. Mathews in St. Louis. David has to get his 12 months shots in about 3 or 4 weeks, so we'll be making an appointment for him to see her once we get our Missouri Medicaid information. Adam will most likely be the one taking David to appointments this year. He'll have a lot more flexibility in his schedule, most likely.

Dr. Platt said David is looking good and healthy. David has a few eczema-like dry spots on his shoulders, elbows, and ribcage, which he has had off and on for the past month. Dr. Platt said we should start applying lotion twice a day. David sees Dr. Platt one more time before we move back to St. Louis.

David got weighed and measured at the WIC office today. He's not growing very fast at this point, but I think that's pretty normal for his age. They grow the fastest in those first 6 months, and when they get more mobility the growth slows down for a little while, I think. His weight was in the 5-10 percentile range, and his height was in the 20-30 percentile range, if I remember correctly.

David's second doctor's appointment went well. Last Monday he'd only been 6lbs after his hospital discharge. He gained 12oz in one week, and the doctor was happy with that. He doesn't need to be seen by Dr. Mathews until he's 2 months old, since he's regulary filling his diapers and eating. I'm sure he'll get some immunizations at that time.

We still need to call the urologist and see when they want to see him to re-ultrasound and check his kidney again. David's been on preventative antibiotic since we were discharged from the hospital, and he's been really good about taking it every evening. 

David loves Word World! Every time an episode is over he'll ask for more. He calls it "wah wah".

He loves when we sing the little ditties from his Skippyjon Jones books. He swings his arms and claps along.

David loves his little cars. He loves carrying them around (especially his Disney Cars cars) and he loves sending them down his car track. He has a little town/street rug in his room, but he hasn't quite figured out that the cars can drive on the streets on the carpet, yet.

He loves going to the church's playground to climb up the stairs and run over the bridge and sometimes go down the slide.

Currently, this is the book he asks to read the most. He loves lots of books, especially flap books, and he has tons of books, so he gets a variety of different ones read to him, too.

He won't let us put him in the sand, and he doesn't want to touch the water, but he has been to the beach. Jones Beach on Long Island, New York.

We flew to Minot, North Dakota.

This book has a squeaky panda bear in the middle of it. Mommy's cousin Aaron gave it to us as a baby shower present.

He's always disappointed at breakfast if he isn't eating a fruit & cereal (Nutrigrain) bar. He loves eating french fries!

He will sit through and watch the whole movie.

The first time he seemed to get up fairly easily. The second time he had trouble and got frustrated.

He loves to walk around the school parking lot, and the parking area of Grandma & Grandpa Wesche's driveway.

He has a pretty good time in the shower. We switched to morning showers with dad, because David has been too busy to lay down and take a bath! It's just much easier and happier this way. :)

His hair is definitely not as dark as his mom's, and it's not as red as his dad's, it's starting to look fairly blond.

He started taking a few steps at a time without help around this day.

Bill Ebers from Chester, IL had the opportunity to give David his very first haircut.

He had a great time sitting in the floatie-boat and being pulled around like a king on a litter!

He does a full-arm wave. Rarely will he do it in response to people, he likes to wave on his own terms!

David definitely says "dada" for Adam. It's very cute.

David is now starting to pull himself into a standing position.

He's been saying "mamamamama" a lot, but he's definitely associating it with Becky now.

Yes. We have one of those rare children that acknowledges their mother with words before their father.

David is learning how to scoot forward with his arms and legs. I'm sure it won't take him very long to really get it down.

I've been trying to teach him to clap for a couple weeks, and today he really did it!

He's been able to do this for a little while, but he really only got good at it this past week.

We've been trying to get him used to drinking from a bottle-like sippy cup for a little while, and he's really now starting to get the hang of it and is able to hold it himself some.

We decided to go ahead and give him a taste of it at the ice cream social for the new confirmands on Maundy Thursday. He had the typical "it's cold!" look on his face.

He's been somewhat laughing a little bit lately, but tonight Adam really got David giggling by making a pig noise. We tried to take a video of it, but of course he stopped when he saw the camera.