9 months! Where has the time gone?!?!

Ava had her 9 month visit, where she had 2 immunizations and 1 influenza shot. Though the picture shows her all snotty-nosed and crying, she was actually a great sport. When we were walking back to the car, she spotted a puppy and just started giggling. She put on that big wide smile where she squints her eyes real small (like mama). The man walking the dog noticed and decided to let her see the puppy up close, but then she acted like she didn't have the slightest interest in either of them. She got all shy or something. Well, then he put the dog back down and started walking in front of us....and sure enough, she did it again. She went it into a giggling fit and put on that big smile. It was a riot. She ended up sleeping the whole way home, where the rest of the night went like usual until she woke up screaming around 7:30 pm later that night. We had to call the night nurse because it was unlike anything we'd ever heard before. It was an intermittent high pitched screaming every few seconds (way worse then the video below), then she'd calm down for a minute and it would start all over again. We finally got the nurse on the phone and she told us this was normal. Whew. A little less than an hour later, the screams became less and less and she finally fell asleep. Next time we will give her the preventative Tylenol, instead of waiting until it was too late.....lesson learned.

Okay, so here's the low-down, Ava weighed in at 16 lbs., putting her at about the 5th percentile!! WooHoo! Impressive eh? And here I thought she was getting beefy. The Doctor said it was okay though because she's so active with the crawling, pseudo walking, etc. So, she measures in at over 28", which puts her at the 35th percentile, and finally the head, I forgot the measurement, but it put her at the 75th percentile! So, basically, she has the proportions of a giant bobble head figure. That's my girl!

We forgot to take the happy before picture....so all we have are sad after pictures.


The next morning she was pretty much back to her normal stubborn, happy, self. Though she's started to resist feedings because she just doesn't want us spoon feeding her anymore. She'll grab the spoon right out of our hands as we approach her mouth and she has impeccable timing, as you can see.



She may end up wearing most of it, but how can we resist that face?


Our strategy now is just to wait until she laughs, smiles, or screams then we shovel in a bunch of food. And that is what we call -- feeding time.....I am sure it will get more interesting as soon as we see some TEETH!

(The Doctor says that she can see the buds on the top row -- but who knows how long it will be....but we'll have a drop cloth ready and waiting)