9 Month Stats

Monkey had his nine month check up on Monday and here are his new stats:

15 lbs, 12 oz
~26 inches long

Yeah. That puts him at the bottom of the 3rd percentile for height and weight. But his head is holding strong in the 10th! This wasn't much of a surprise as he wore his 3-6 month size outfit to the doctor's office, but still. The doctor readily accepted our explanation of Monkey's dramatic increase in mobility as a huge calorie burner since he was walking all over the exam room (with fingers, of course) and showing her his most excellent boat pose while she was trying to check him out. She would like us to keep our follow up appointment at Prestigious Children's Hospital just to make sure that our ongoing food issues (puking and/or screaming all night with certain foods) aren't keeping him from growing like he should. We are thinking that we may request a different doctor, since we did not enjoy our last experience there. She did say that he is gorgeous and perfect in every other way, and if we weren't still having food issues she would just say he is small and leave it at that. So, the saga continues. He is staying on his acid reflux medicine until we get his food allergies worked out.

In the meantime, Monkey is the proud (but possessive and shy) owner of two new teeth. TWO! AT ONCE! Photo evidence will be provided as soon as he cooperates.