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Elise's Nine Month Check Up

She is supposed to be asleep, but she must have missed that memo.

And then came the crash!

Jonah was playing photographer again!


Elise will be 9 months on Sunday so she had a little check up today.  18 lbs 11 ounces puts her right at 50% on the charts.  She is a little longer (70%) at 28 inches.  As always I had to look up my others.  Audrey was 18-8 and 28 inches.  Wow that is similar.  They boys were 3 and 5 pounds bigger.  (I will let you guess which boy was which!) 9 month shots are not typical, but Elise didn't have her 2 month (our decision) or 6 month (she had a fever from a virus) so she is "behind."  She carried a fever when she got her 4 month so I asked if we could just do one this time and got a "YES!"  A huge thing in the DSM area where some of us feel that our parental rights are being compromised and the individual needs of our babies ignored for the sake of administration. (Yep, this whole thing gets me worked up a bit. Can you tell?) We talked her eating habits.  Elise will hardly nurse anymore, and she is a major snacker with the bottle.  I may start working with a cup and see what she thinks of that.  I also had them take a look at her legs.  She will NOT put her weight on them.  She uses them to crawl, but she will.not.stand.  Nothing I am concerned about but is on my radar.  The Dr. said the same thing: more of a personality thing than a physical thing.  I haven't been putting her in the exersaucer as much since she has been able to crawl but I need to make sure that I put her in there to stretch them everyday.
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