Update

Now that the holidays are over we are getting back into the routine of things. It was great to see the friends and family that we were able to see over the past couple weeks and to enjoy a few days off from work, but all of that has messed up Lily's schedule. I am glad that we are going to get back into our normal routine.

Lily had her 1 year well visit with the pediatrician last week. He is so happy to see her starting to walk and talk more. She is in the 11th percentile for height and only the 1st for weight. She only gained about 1/2 a pound since her 9 month check up. He said he isn't worried, but he does want to watch her weight a bit. Instead of going back in 3 months for her 15 month check up we are going to go back in 6 weeks. We are also putting her on a higher fat diet to see if we can pack on the weight. She seems to be enjoying getting cheese added to most of her meals and loves that we end dinner with dessert now (ice cream seems to be the favorite so far). Since she is eating whatever we are eating it is going to be hard for me to keep eating healthy myself and not gain a lot of weight too. I have realized that is it about portion control for me and putting the "good" stuff on Lily's plate and eating a lot of my food plain. For example, today for lunch Lily and I had hamburgers and a baked sweet potato. I made one hamburger and then cut about a third of it off for Lily, that part got cheese on it. She also got some bread to make hers a sandwich and I just cut up my burger. For the sweet potato I scooped some out for Lily and put butter and sour cream on it and my part I ate plain. While her lunch looked amazing, mine tasted really good. I know I will be able to get Lily to gain weight without gaining it myself.

I will get pictures up sometime this week. I got a new computer for my birthday and I am trying to be selective with what I put on it and where so it doesn't become a disorganized mess like my last one. This has made me a little slow at getting pictures off the camera though because I don't know exactly how I want to organize them yet