Happy Nine Month Birthday!

Happy 9-month birthday to Melanie Grace! She had a rough birthday week - she was out of daycare for 2.5 days, and pulled an all-nighter (as did her parents) on Tuesday night. She's on the mend now - she had a fever due to her teething, and she is on antibiotics for the start of an ear infection. She's getting at least one, if not two, of her top teeth - first teeth since her two bottom ones came in over her 5-month birthday weekend! She is 99.9% better now, and thankfully sleeping much better. She even took a 2-hour and a 1.5-hour nap at daycare today!!

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Mel is continuing to thrive. She stands on her own. She can get to standing without support - and she can bend down, pick something up, and stand back up all without support. She waves hello and bye-bye (not really correlated to someone coming or going, but still....) She loves to play peek-a-boo and be tickled, or have her feet kissed, and her favorite things are her silky, her rubber giraffe, and her phone. She's wearing 3-6 month clothes now - some are still a little big, but overall they fit the best. She's going to get her mattress lowered for the second time this weekend, and she's still on Level 3 nipples on her bottles (we've tried 4, but we're easing her into them). She's eating cereal in the morning and night, and during the day she has fruits, veggies, and often macaroni and cheese. She's tried peaches, mandarin oranges, and bananas. She's averaging about 22oz of formula a day. At her nine-month appointment, she was 15lbs 1oz, and 27.5 inches.

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Thank you to Grandma Doan who helped with Mel's daycare absences this week! Since I started a new job on Monday, I wasn't very flexible to take care of the little peanut!