Category: Asher

Asher’s 1st birthday events

We’re throwing a birthday party for Asher. on October 5th! The evite went out and here’s a link, we also decided to have a virtual webcast of the ceremonial portion of his first birthday, and for that there’s another evite.  If you’d like to come, please sign up on the evite for the party at our place, or the google hangout webcast!

The party at our home will start at 4 pm and go until about 8.  The webcast will start at 6 pm and I’d expect it to last no more than 15 minutes.  We intend to broadcast and record the ceremonial portion.

I’m going to use Google Hangout.  You’ll need a gmail account (I think) to join.

I’m looking forward to it.

Asher’s first day walking

Today Asher walked on no less than a half dozen occasions. The first was at Thad Hostetlers house. We went over to visit before Thad and his family return to Vietnam tomorrow. When we came through the front door and introduced Asher, I set him down on the floor offering him my finger to use for balance. Thad’s mother noted that he’s about ready to walk and I replied, as I have each time we’ve visited friends in the last couple weeks, he’s really close, today could be the day.

Less than 30 minutes later Asher pulled off his first unassisted walking moment. He let his grip of my leg go and stood for 10-15 seconds teetering and tottering a little, but generally calm. Then he struck out and took 6 or 7 baby steps forward before dropping down to catch himself on the floor. A few minutes later, Thad’s wife Cha enticed him with a balloon. I caught this one on video!

We treated ourselves and Asher to dinner out at Dove Vivi where we had a great salad, one of their awesome corn crust pizzas and Old German beer “The World Knows No Finer”.

When we got home, we parked in front of Collin and Emily and their 20-month old Francis. They came out to visit and like a good, proud father, I offered them to see Asher walk. I set him down, got him balanced, let him go and encouraged him to move forward. He responded with a few steps before I caught him as he lost his way. The next person to stop by was Amanda, then Pete, and then Mike. All got to see some form and occurence of Asher walking for the first day.

We’ll call it official. August 20th, 2013. 320 days old. About 10 1/2 months.

Asher’s first steps

While this isn’t the best example of Asher’s first steps, it is the best of what I recorded.

The last time Asher was in San Diego, the end of April, he learned how to crawl. Commando crawl we’ll call it. He just slithered on the ground following the carrot his cousin Allie led him around the table with, which was some kind of toy on a string. Since then he has mastered crawling, so I’ll make the guess that it will be about 2 months until he is an independent infant.

I want to go on record that I predicted that he’d walk in San Diego. He waited until the last day, but he proved his papa right. He and I will have a successful career of prognosticator and achiever, I’m sure.

Just an observation, but his sleep patterns were very different in the days leading up to this breakthrough. We hope his brain has recorded and stored it and allows him to go back to a more regular sleep pattern.

Congratulations to Asher for his breakthrough!

http://youtu.be/A-8J86LFEy0

Asher’s 9 month wellness check

Today we visited Dr. Breeze at the North Portland Providence Medical Group offices and it was a breeze. Our doctor has an 18 month old and is a well informed pediatrician keeping him always ahead of our Asher’s stages. We love Dr. Breeze.

Today Asher weighed in at 21 lbs. 13 oz. which is 82nd percentile. His height was measured at 29.4 inches which is 86th percentile and his head circumference was measured at 18 inches, which is 67th percentile.

His car seat is good until 30 inches in length, so were gonna go get him the upgrade.

We’re disappointed that there is a shortage of pentacel. Pentacel is 3 immunizations in one, and we’d rather do a single shot than 3, however we’re going to visit in August and do the individual shots. He still hasn’t had his 6 month Pentacel and we can’t afford to get to far behind.

Overall Asher is healthy and doing wonderfully.

Our pre-walking infant

Asher has mastered his car, crawling, sleeping in his own bed (!), pulling up, sitting down, climbing stairs, eating with his hands, loving everything we feed him and being a generally adorable pre-walking infant.

Here’s a cool video of him being industrious, excited and fast.