9 Month Update

Molly had her 9 month check-up today. I can't believe she is 9 months old. That just seems so crazy. Only 3 months more and I won't have a baby anymore, but a 1 year old! Aaaaaahhh!!!

Here are the stats on her check-up.
Name: Molly
Height: 29.75 inches - 98 percentile
Weight: 20.1 lbs - 72 percentile
Head Size: 17.6 inches - 73 percentile

She's grown an inch and a half and gained three and a half pounds in the last three months. That's about 2.3 pounds per inch!

Other things worth mentioning:
Developmentally, Molly passed all of the questions Dr. Havlik asked. Some included, "Can she pass something from 1 hand to the other? Can she pick up an object between her thumb and index finger? Can she reach for something she wants?" He even took the tongue depressor out of her hand and put it in her sock. She immediately grabbed it out of her sock and kept playing with it. Dr. Havlik replied, "a problem solver!" The only questions Molly failed were about her mobility. She's perfectly content to be immobile. "Can she pull herself up to sitting? Can she crawl?" Um . . . no.

The only other thing that came out of the visit was the conclusion that Molly's ears are still infected and she needs to probably get tubes in her ears. Dr. Havlik said his criteria for tubes is 6 ear infections in 6 months. Today we got a prescription for Molly's 6th antibiotic since, I think, October. We have an appointment with an ear, nose, and throat specialist next week and depending on what he says, it seems likely that Molly will get tubes in her ears. Poor baby. She's really not that grumpy and as long as we keep her drugged, she sleeps ok (though she's woken up a lot more in the night for the last few weeks). Maybe she's just built up a tolerance to the ear pain. I don't know.

Here's a picture of the 9 month old. It was taken at West High tonight during another Ugly Betty Special. One more to go. At least we got to watch Tyrell Corbin (son of Ty Corbin) play tonight. He's really good and my mom said she thinks he's planning on playing at the Y. Too bad. Thanks to Willie's bucket at the end, Hunter at least got to 40 points. And, Willie had a great JV game ton