9 month check up

Today is a busy busy day. Vaughn-elise had her nine month check up. She is perfect! She is really slimming down and back into most of her 9-12 month clothes instead of 12-18 month so i was excited to see what she weighed. She was 21 pounds...only gained a pound in a half in 3 months and she is 29.5 inches long!! Thats a 3 inch growth in 3 months. Aunt mimi is right, she is tall and thin. She has hit all of the elements they had hoped for by this point. She said her digestive track still seems slightly lacking in comparison to others her age but she was not worried. She said the only difference will be that we will have to keep her on baby food longer and she will not be able to switch to soy milk at a year like the rest of the kids...once she gets her swallowing technique better she will be able to slowly increase her solids and decrease her liquids. She is still eating roughly half of the solid foods she sh ould be and twice as much bottles...but the doctor said there is a wide range of normal at this age and she is just fine. She said to take our time, which is what i am doing. It was strange that before I left she wished Vaughn-elise a happy 1 year early as she will not see her until a few days after her 1 year apt. That was so strange to me! She is almost a year old!!!

I am home with her today as I could not get ahold of Rudy when I went to drop her off so I had to call in to work. Thats always a bummer to use unneccessary PTO time but its nice to be home with her.She is naping now and I have another apt with the physical therapist this afternoon and then an apt with a financial planner (hopefully he's not too rough on me!) so she will be going to Deena's again this afternoon for a few hours. I am so thankful that we have her to watch Vaughn-elise. It is nice that she is able to have the one on one attention and has another sweet baby girl close to her age to grow with. Deena got a new mini weiner that Vaughn just loves! She is so great with her...no worries when she is there....what a relief for a mother!

Today does not seem like a friday....it seems like a Wednesday. I have so many things to do and no time to get them done so i best be getting some of those things marked off while Vaughn is asleep.