go vikings!

maya coming for the camera

kalia in hendrickson family vikings cheerleader outfit
all uncle tim's neices have worn this!

she was really getting into it, although she has no idea what a cheerleader is

So maya had her 9 month appointment and she is 18 lbs. 11 oz and 28 1/2 inches. I just checked and kalia was 16 lbs. 8 oz. and 27 3/4 inches. Maya was incredible at the drs. appointment- she had barely napped and didn't cry, even when they gave her the flu shot! She barely fussed when they squeezed 3 viles of blood out of her finger, more because she wanted the lady to let go of her hand, she didn't cry when they poked her, just frustrated by the 3rd vile. Maya is hard core!

The reason why maya hardly had a morning nap is because the appointment was on thursday and thursday is my mommy surf date with friend adrienne. We both have an older child in pre-school and then we trade off our babies on the beach and we've surfed 3 weeks in a row. It's so great to get in the water and we both are much happier mommies afterwards. Plus, both our baby #2s are much more agreeable to having somebody else watch them. So I couldn't ruin the rhythm by skipping a week, so we dropped kids off a little early to pre-school and went straight to surf, then i went straight to doctors. But maya usually falls asleep on the way down there, but she wouldn't and was up for almost 4 1/2 hours, of course she fell asleep on the 3 minutes drive to the drs. appointment.

So our pediatrician (who will go nameless) told us last time absolutely no fruit and that maya should be having only 8 - 12 oz. of formula by 9 months. I went in to this appointment telling myself just take whatever he says with a grain of salt - don't let myself question him- just nod and do my own thing, but then he said that she should be only having 3 meals a day - no snacks at all! I totally broke - no snacks? It was because he doesn't want her to snack all day, but eat at meal time. I told him that she eats her meals even with snacks and he said, "what, you want her to be fat, don't bring her to me when she gets fat - I can't make her skinny." Anyway, that was pretty funny. Darn, I guess maya's skinny baby modeling career is totally out. And I so wanted to be a stage mom. I should clarify that after I told him that usually she has tofu, fruit or veggie bits for snack, he said that might be OK. No snacks? Ha, he obviously doesn't know me, no snacks, I mean what else is there to live for? I'm snacking right now.

So i'm pretty sure that maya is getting her 4th tooth - upper #2. Same as a couple weeks ago, waking up at night or really early AM and hard time settling for naps, very fussy. Of course maya is still go, go, go. But checks in with me a lot more and sucking her thumb a lot. She literally almost fell off kalia's bed today. I was trying to read kalia stories before her nap and maya was so quick, luckily I caught her by the ankle- she was 1 1/2 inches from the ground and loving the freefall. She was totally smiling.