10 Months Old

Grace turned 10 months old on Monday (May 8th)!

1*She's pulling up everywhere. Once she gets up she wont walk along whatever she pulled up on to get to an object yet. Instead she falls and crawls to where the object is an pulls up again.
2*She loves waving bye-bye and still enjoys playing peek-a-boo.
3*Grace still only 3 teeth. But it looks like a few others may start to come in at any time.
4*As of Wednesday she is now completely off propranolol. But we're still crossing our fingers and praying that her hemangioma doesn't begin to grow again.
5*Her wonderful sleep habits have changed. It seems that her internal alarm clock has switched itself from 7am to 5:30am. Her napping isn't as good either. I think it has to do with not being on the propranolol anymore.
6*She says "Dada", "hey", "that", "duck" and a bunch of other sounds that we can't quite figure out yet!
7*She has begun to point at things.
8*Grace is wearing 6-9 month clothes. She can fit into some 9mo. clothes, but it all depends on the brand.
9*She had her first vomiting virus Wednesday night. Talk about pitiful (and a mess). I hurt just as much as she did. So glad she's beginning to feel better!
10*She still loves to read. Grace has a bucket of books and a bucket of toys and she hasn't played with her bucket of toys in a while. She heads straight for the books!

These pictures were taken on Monday. We were at Bulls Bay & I couldn't find paper and didn't have a printer to be able to make her a "10 month old" sign. But they were taken on the actual day!


Happy 10 month birthday baby girl. Guess I better get in gear planning her 1st birthday party. It will be here before we know it! :(

Worn Out!

I took these pictures a few weeks ago, but just haven't had the chance to share. I have a lot of pictures like that (you know, seem to get stuck just sitting in my computer). Since my last post Grace has turned 10 months! Woah! Two months away from a whole year! Where does time go? I will do another post soon about the whole "10 month" thing! In the meantime here's two pictures of Grace playing at Bulls Bay. We'll OK not playing but worn out from playing!

I put her in the living room to play with her toys while I packed her diaper bag for us to take my friend Bridget and her new baby Owen to the doctors. Grace had been fussy and I knew it was getting close to nap time so instead of putting her down for a nap I thought I'd wait and let her sleep in the car- well she fell asleep like this about 5 minutes before it was time to load up and leave. I just had to take a picture of her! (Can you find her amongst the toys?)

I love her to pieces!

Reading...

Update

Sorry for the slack-ness of posting in February. Just wanted to give you a few updates on our little one.

Feb 19th: Grace went for her 9 month well appointment at the pediatrician.

Height: 27.25 inches long (45th percentile)

Weight: 16.0 (10th percentile)

She did have to get one shot, but she didn't cry much. Her doctor says she is developing wonderfully.

The weekend after Grace came down with some sort of stomach bug and was sick through Tuesday. Thank goodness she's feeling much better now.

Feb. 24th: We went back to Duke for Grace's dermatologist appointment. Dr. Bellet was pleased with the looks of her hemangioma. We've decided to begin weaning Grace off of her propranolol medication. We are still in a grey window because hemangiomas can stop growing anywhere between 9mo-12mo of age. Dr. Bellet reassured us that if we go ahead and take her off of it and it begins to grow back then we can just put her back on the medication. I'm praying that it doesn't grow back because rapid growth can cause ulcers, which I definitely don't think I could handle again, especially with Grace at the age she is now. The doctor did tell us that more laser is an option later (18-24months) to clear up the spot even more, but we're just going to wait and see how things are then. We don't have another appointment until June!

We hope you all are doing well!
xoxo-

Scott, Meg, & Grace

Owen Grady Spruill

My best friend, Bridget, her husband Stephen, and her step-son Stephen Jr. welcomed a new addition to their "Spruill Clan" on February 9th. They waited to find out the sex of the baby until birth and we were all excited to welcome a baby boy! After a long day of labor and no progression he was delivered via c-section at 8:16pm, weighing 8lbs. 7oz. and was 21.5 inches long.

I just love this picture...

Proud Daddy sweeping Owen off to finally have some time with his Mommy. I didn't get to see Bridget after the c-section, so Grace and I ventured back to Edenton this morning to spend a few minutes with them before heading back to Raleigh.

9 months

Our baby girl is 3/4 of a year old and continues to amaze me every. single. day! In honor of her 9 month birthday, I thought I'd continue the facts from last month and do 9 new ones for this month!



1* Grace has a lot of non-verbal cues. She continues to blow kisses, waves sometimes, and has now begun to shakes her head no when she doesn't want something.

2*Just within the last few days she's getting up on her knees and getting her belly off of the floor. She's realized this is easier for her to reach up on things and then pull up on them. She easily gets frustrated when pulling up especially if you're right there watching her.



3*She has begun to show some signs of fear or shyness around strangers, but still very little. Usually it's a male that she tends to shy away from.

4*Her pacifier continues to be her security object.



5*We go to the doctor on the 19th for her 9 month well visit. I can't wait to see how much she's grown!

6*She prefers real food over baby food these days, but I still give her mainly baby food, those little pieces still freak me out for fear of choking, but I do let her try lots of new things. Diced apples tends to be her choice of food at the moment. She also loves those Gerber cheddar lil' crunchies.



7*She's getting the hang of going from a laying to sitting position, it still takes her a while, but she's doing it much more often now.

8*She's attracted to cords. If there is a cord in the room she'll find it (as well as any other small object that lingers). There can be tons of toys in the floor but if a cord catches her eye, she's on her way.

9*Last but not least, she loves to snuggle in the mornings and evenings after bath time. During these times she loves to read the book, God Knows All About Me. Her expressions are priceless when we read it.

Snow Day #2