What's Bethany Doing this Month?

One of the many things I appreciate about our adoption agency is that we receive Well Baby Clinics (WBC) every month. We received Bethany's nine month WBC today and it's the fifth one we've received since her referral.

As per the latest WBC, Bethany is 17.6 pounds and 26.6 inches. Poor baby is wheezing though because she has bronchiolitis (again). She is 9 months old but was assessed developmentally as 8 months. I'm not too concerned about that since I know everyone develops at different rates, especially at this age. In fact, Austin was always a late bloomer but look at him now. :)

Here's what Bethany's been doing lately:

• rolls over
• crawls
• sits briefly
• reaches out for and grasps large objects
• transfers objects from hand to hand
• rakes at raisin
• prefers foster mother
• responds to sound of her name
• plays peek-a-boo
• says single syllables
• imitates speech sound

I wish I were there to witness all of these things for myself, but for now I am thankful to have a small glimpse into her life every month.

Our stroller and car seats arrived yesterday. Our poor UPS man had to lug all of that in the pouring rain. This pattern was not my first choice but you couldn't beat the price. These were more than a hundred dollars cheaper than the ones I wanted so this time frugalness won out over fashion. Our little girl will be surrounded by pink but I guess I'm just making up for all those years of going without pink.

So while Bethany is developing steadily, this is what her big brother has been up to. I was folding laundry and heard Austin repeating "More weight, more weight." I walked over and this is what I found.

He was doing push ups with two backpacks on and wanted me to add on more weight. Why? "I'm doing basic training". :) Oh Bethany, you are going to love your big brother!!!