Another 'Well-child' Visit Done for Jane and Alyss

For this one I went all by myself with both girls. Alyss had to go for her 9 months check-up and Jane for her 2 year's one. It was probably funny to watch me and the nurse trying to hold one baby while taking the vitals of the other. Alyss was pretty easy, as she still didn't fully understand what was happening but Jane put up a pretty big fight. She did not want to stand on the scale so we had to use the scale for infants and measure her the way you'd measure an infant too. Both girls' stats are excellent though. Alyss, as usual, is in the 50th percentile for everything and Jane, just as usual for her, is in the 90th percentile. They are both very proportionate and healthy and the doctor was happy with the way they look. I told him that Alyss didn't sit up until almost 7 months but he wasn't concerned. She also still doesn't crawl, just scoots everywhere but he wasn't concerned about that either. She does get up on her knees and rocks back and forth and even pulls herself up on short things around the house, to the point where she would be standing next to whatever she is leaning up against, but she doesn't want to crawl. We are not forcing her in any way; not that we could do that anyway, and are sure that she will get to the next milestone in her own due time. She is more laid back than Jane was and is just content the way things are right now. She is a talker though. Says and waves 'bye-bye' and claps her hands while saying 'bravo', she waves hello, dances on music and loves "Itsy bitsy spider". We went to Christmas around the World, the show put up by the folk dance department at BYU, and Alyss sat very attentively and quietly through almost the entire 2 hour show. Jane just wanted to be outside and run around but Alyss loved to watch the dances. I was pretty impressed with how good she was. I remember Jane being ok and sleeping through movies when she was little but we never took her to a concert at that age so don't know if she would have been as interested as Alyss was. It was fun watching Alyss and it made me proud and hopeful that she might like music and dance. Another thing that Alyss loves is to eat our food and would not even touch baby purees anymore. She still eats breast milk and I'll do my best to have her on that at least until she's 10 months old, if not up to one year. Jane on the other hand only wants to eat a handful of things: bananas, grapes, apples, pasta from soup, cereal, milk, cheese and fries. She also loves pizza and gummy bears. I'm happy that at least she takes her daily multivitamin since it is in the shape of gummies. For the past couple of months Jane has started talking quite a bit. She uses both English and Romanian so far and man, does she have a personality. She just yells at us or Alyss, points her index finger and just says 'no'! She also scratches, pushes or hits Alyss if she is upset with her or just plainly upset. I have to put her in time out a few times a day but she still doesn't seen to get it. I would be telling her not to do something and she would look me straight in the eye and do it anyway. She's quite a fighter. I hope she will learn to channel that strength into useful things, which I will try to provide for her. She is not a bad girl, though. She helps with Alyss, gives her a bottle or the binky when she cries, brings me Alyss' diaper and wipes, covers her if she is asleep and covers her lips with her index finger saying 'shhh', and calls her in the sweetest voice 'baby Alyss'. I just love how she says that. I gotta record it because it melts my heart whenever she says it.
Well, I'm glad that my girls are doing so well and growing healthy. I sometimes think about how only a year ago Jane was just like Alyss, a baby, and now she runs and talks and tells me what she wants or needs. I think about Alyss, being already almost 10 months old and about how in another 7 months or so another little one will join our family. It's a little overwhelming to think about all these things and about where our life's taken us. We are so happy though. We have beautiful babies and we have each other no matter what. I love my family and I don't envy other families one bit because I pretty much know and feel that my family is the best thing that could have happened to me.