6 Months and Growing

Asher had his 6 month check up today.  He's doing great.  He is now 28 1/2 inches and 16 pounds 10 ounces.  They did a vision test on him and he has some astigmatism that they'd like us to get checked out, but if I remember correctly because of all of Mia's vision issues, all babies are born with astigmatism and usually grow out of it by 3-4 years old.  Of course, maybe his is more than just the normal baby amount...so we will get him an eye exam here and check out his beautiful blues. 

Happy 1/2 Asher!

1/2 a year?!  Where did it go?  This kid is growing by leaps and bounds and totally ahead of the curve on lots of things.  I keep telling him to slow down, there's plenty of time to catch up to brother and sister, but alas, my words aren't changing anything.  We love this adorable guy, couldn't imagine life without him and are so thankful every day that God has blessed and entrusted us with this little man.

I read a book that said when your kid starts reaching for your food, then it's time for them to eat.  Well, Asher is ready.  I sat him on my lap and could barely restrain him from grabbing all the food off of Calvin's plate, so we decided it was time for him to get some too.  As of now, he's tried banana, oatmeal and peas...the only he didn't like was oatmeal, but I don't blame him because it was mixed with formula and well, it didn't look appealing to me either.

He now crawls...mostly an army crawl, but he will get up on all fours and take one step forward.  He can now sit like a flowerpot, but since he crawls he doesn't stay in that position for very long.  He also does a very nice downward dog.

Here is the little man.

And for those of you who never see the little guy upset...it does happen, just not a lot...but when it does...

Crawling

It's official...wobbly, but official, the little man can crawl.  Yikes, a few days short of 6 months...this boy is on the move and trying to catch up to his brother and sister fast!

Great Grandma

Asher and I went on a trip for the past few days to visit my grandmother, the kids great-grandmother, and several aunts and uncles in North Dakota.  I didn't know how we were going to do on the airplane, but I was confident it would be ok with just he and I.  Daddy held down the fort at home with the other two munchkins while I got a much needed vacation.  These days I'm just feeling so burnt out and exhausted, trying to sort out parenting as best as we can...wanting to raise kids that just aren't obedient because they fear the consequences, but rather are obedient because they want to make the right choice.  It is a battle.  So, these past few days away were so good for me and it was so nice to see family that I haven't seen in awhile and I loved that they got to meet Asher.

He did so well on the flights, everyone on the planes adored him.  Everyone who sat beside me was ok with having a baby next to them, in fact, several people were excited that they got to be by the baby on the plane.  Well, he is rather cute, so I didn't blame them for that.  On one of our flights we had a younger stewardess...she was very pretty with blonde hair and a gorgeous smile...Asher thought so too, every time she walked by he would start cooing at her.  And as soon as she was gone, he would stop.  It was rather amusing actually.

We just enjoyed a relaxing time with family for a few days before it was time to come back home.  :)

Great Grandma, Asher and I

Roland (a friend of the family) and Asher

Words, words, and more words...

I was thinking back to about 3 years ago, before Mia was speaking...when we sat down with her neurologist at one of her regular check-ups and he told me that he didn't think Mia would ever be able to speak.  Fast forward to our speech therapy visit last week on Thursday and her speech therapist is telling me how it is time for her to graduate because she "has all of her sounds".  All of her sounds!  Praise God, what a miracle...really.  The fact that she can produce all of the sounds is amazing.  Sometimes when she is talking really fast she will not enunciate clear enough, but if you ask her to slow down, you can understand her so well, it is amazing.  What a journey!  Thank you Lord for so much progress with our little girl.  So grateful.