big head = big brain?
this morning was frederick’s official 1-year appointment (don’t worry, he is over 13 months … darn pediatrician’s office).
anyway, here are his stats:
weight: 21 lbs. 6 oz. (25th percentile)
height: 29.5 inches (25th percentile)
head circumference: 19.5 inches (90th percentile)
i already knew he had a big head, and i think it is super cute. the doctor re-measured it himself, which they’ve done the last 3 times we’ve been in, because they don’t believe the nurse’s measurement. christian was at the appointment with us and the doctor looked at him and said, “do you have a big head? i think you do, i can’t tell with all that hair.” and then proceeded to measure christian’s head and conclude that he does, in fact, have a huge head, and so he isn’t one bit worried about frederick’s big head. nor am i. 🙂
13 months
at 13 months frederick is doing great. he is not walking yet but he is a major furniture cruiser and a surprisingly fast crawler. i am not too anxious for him to walk, but i was bummed to see that he scuffed the living daylights out of his new shoes on the concrete at the park the other day. tomorrow we (finally) go in for his one year check-up so i’m excited to see his stats. these days i often get “wow, he is big” after i tell people he is 13 months old. which always surprises me because i got so used to hearing the opposite when he was younger!
we had a fun trip to DC this month to visit granny zidi & grandpa bruce. we had a great time spending time with them and seeing other friends in the area. frederick was treated like a king by granny zidi, he even took bruce’s chair at the head of the table, we called it the throne.
one of his only word these days is “ball”, which is appropriate because he is obsessed with balls. if he sees anything that remotely resembles a ball (such as an apple, a pea, a circle, an olive, a bunch of grapes) or an actual ball, he starts saying “ball ball ball ball ball” until you take him to it or give it to him. it comes out more like “ba ba ba” but occasionally the l’s make it on the end. once he gets a ball he gets very excited, hugs it, holds it over his head, drop/throws it, watches it roll across the entire house (our floors are very un-level) and chases after it.
another word that i heard sometimes, but not as frequently, is “book” which comes out like “boo” (not boo as in halloween boo but boo as in book without the k sound at the end). his second love to balls is books. he loves to pull every last book from his basket of books. he tosses the less desirable (i.e. no fun flaps/textures) books to the wayside and goes straight for his favorites. he’ll sit and “read” them himself for an hour or more in the morning while i work, or sometimes he likes to bring me them to read to him while he sits on my lap.
if he sees a book with pictures of balls, you better believe the “ba ba ba”s reach a new intensity.
so because of the “ba ba ba”s i hear all day long, i decided to dress him as a sheep/lamb this year. it’s pretty darn cute, i am not going to lie.
another new trick is waking up at 5:30 sharp every morning. let me tell you, it is awesome (insert sarcasm). other than the early waking, he is a joy. the other day at dinner, christian said “every time i look at him i have a feeling of pure joy, do you think that is normal?” it is true. pure joy.
frederick is one
i realize frederick turned one almost three weeks ago, but i am a slacker just getting around to posting about it. it is hard to know what to say about such a momentous occasion so i will just say that this last year has been amazing. we couldn’t have asked for a happier, cuter, more fun kid and we are so happy for this year we’ve had with him.
on his birthday i took him to the california academy of sciences. he loved the penguins so much that i bought a membership! that night we went for thai food and he insisted on turning around in his highchair and staring at the waiter the entire time (it was not the first nor the last time he has done this). we ended the night by singing him happy birthday and letting him enjoy a banana cream cupcake from american cupcake. only about 1/10 of it made it into his mouth, but i think he still had fun. he took to ‘happy birthday’ and now it is my go-to song when he is getting fussy in the car or won’t stay still while i change his diaper.
the weekend after his birthday we had a party at kelly’s house with all of his baby friends. how lucky he is to have these little buddies all his same age (beckham and ella we missed you)! our friend fumiko in our ward made us a delicious chocolate/raspberry/buttercream cake very similar to our wedding cake which we all thoroughly enjoyed. i wasn’t feeling to inspired about decorations but i did hang up the mini bunting from his room and blew up some mini balloons to go along with the tiny theme.
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