Apollo XIV {Eight Months}

You know you have a large family when...

...your children feel sorry for families with only six or seven children.
...people ask if you're competing with the Duggars.
...even your friends aren't sure how many children you have.
...your family no longer fits in a 15 passenger van.
..complete strangers feel welcome to comment on your fertility and contraceptive methods.
...two of your daughters go for a walk...and get asked by a neighbor if they're foster kids.
...you have to carry three health insurance cards in your wallet- because that's how many it takes to fit everyone's name.
...you take the wrong child to the dentist...simply because your handwriting on the calendar was messy and both started with a "j".
...grocery shopping for 30 children and 12 adults for a two day camp constitutes a "small" shopping trip for you.
You find yourself relating some small incident to your husband and starting with the words, "Well, I only boiled twenty-six eggs for breakfast..."
...you buy a 40 pound box of bananas intending to make banana bread and freeze a bunch for smoothies...but your children eat them all first.
...you find an afternoon root canal relaxing.
...it takes you twenty-three minutes on the phone to schedule your children's dental appointments.
...you've given up on using your toaster entirely and make all of your toast under the broiler in you oven.
...you are seriously tempted by the stacking cribs you see at Goodwill for $19.99.
...you find yourself thinking, "Wow, the house is so quiet and peaceful with only nine children".
...you have enough children to constitute not one, but TWO large families.
...you have a laundry basket devoted entirely to lonely socks seeking their mate.
...when you got to buy your children those cool "spin toothbrushes" because you think they get their teeth so much cleaner...but the store doesn't carry enough styles/colors for your children to each have a different toothbrush.
...when you can't take all of your children to the doctor's office at the same time because the waiting room has only 10 seats.
...when you still have seven children that are required by law to sit in a carseat or booster seat.
...you call the doctor to get your children tetnus shots, and they tell you they don't have enough in the office and need to order more from the health department.
...you take up more than one entire pew in church.
...you take only half of your children to the library, and STILL get asked if they're all yours.
...you go to fill your children's flouride prescription at the phamacy and you clean them out of every pill they have...and it's still not enough.
...you spend sixty dollars on socks...and not everyone gets new socks.
...you go shopping at Costco and the cashier asks if you're having a soccer barbecue.

February 26, 2011

Weight: 15 pounds 5 ounces

That's a gain of one pound three ounces in the last month. Go, Apollo! He is now back on the charts, in the second percentile! Last month he wasn't even on the charts. He is having more good nights that bad ones now. A good night for Apollo means one stretch of four or five hours. I am still under doctor's orders to nurse him at night. And really, with a face like that, who could resist?

He's had lots of new milestones this month. He loves to stick his tongue out. He doesn't babble, but squeaks and squeals and blows bubbles. He commando crawls everywhere. Now that he can pull himself up, he does it on every surface including pulling himself up in his crib.

Apollo got his first tooth this month. It simply appeared one day, no fussiness or pain. One of Apollo's new tricks is fake crying. He will whine and pretend to cry, then look around to make sure we notice. As cute as it is at this age, we are trying to discourage it...

Apollo is learning the names of all his siblings. If you say "Judah" or "Tilly" he'll scan the room until he finds the right person. His favorite sibling at the moment is Keziah.

Nothing can stop this boy when he sees his beloved Keziah. He will crawl across a toy strewn living room and dirty dining room floor to get to his true love. It is simply adorable!

And speaking of crawling, he loves to be chased. If you crawl after him on the floor and say, "I'm gonna get you, Apollo" he will crawl away as fast as he can, looking back every so often to see of you are still chasing him.

He grows cuter and more cherished every day.

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