Nine-month checkup

After a nice but short visit with Sue and Kate today (school had a snow day!), we trekked through the snow to Peyton's check-up. Doc said she can pretty much eat any kind of table food, so that should be fun! Less than three months left with the bottle and formula - I can't believe it!. We're also supposed to get her off of the paci - by a year is best but by 18 months max. That will be a challenge. She's down to only needing it when she sleeps but I've only gotten her to go to bed in her crib without it one other time...and it's been a while. Here's the stats:
22 lbs 15.5 oz (95%)
28 inches (75%)
Head 43.5 cm (25-50% - she has Greg's little head!)

The doctor was looking at her teeth and asked how many teeth she had and I was about to say four, but Dr. Mayer said "there's four on the bottom". She also sees at least one lateral incisor coming in the top - maybe both. That explains why she's been gnawing on everything lately. I had thought it was still from her first two upper teeth coming in.

I also clarified what she had in her lungs and the word I was missing just stood for where the infiltrates were - she had "interstitial infiltrates". But, she is all better now and we can stop the breathing treatment! Yeah!

Oh, and she busted her lip on the TV tonight. She was playing with her activity table and wanted to get to the new gate that was leaning on the TV. Even though I was sitting right there, she managed to quickly slip and she must have cut the inside of her lip with her teeth. She had blood coming out of her mouth - I was freaking out. But, she only cried for about a minute and I gave her her mesh feeding thing with ice in it. She was fine after that. She's a tough girl!

Where did my little baby go?

Well, Peyton has been pulling up but it's always been when we put her right next to something or if she can easily move to get to the table/sofa etc. The past couple of days we've noticed that when we're not right next to her she can manage to get to things by herself. Tonight she pulled up in her crib for the first time when we weren't in there. She was talking away and when I went in to check on her, there she was looking at me! You could tell she thought she was big stuff (look at that grin).

Later, she was sitting and playing by herself in the fam room while Greg & I were cleaning up and we decided to hide in the hallway and watch her play. She went to the coffee table, which was about a foot away, pulled up and walked a few steps to the end of it. We knew she wanted to get to her activity table but thought for sure she would fall since it is about a foot away from the coffee table. But, she managed to get a hand on it and walk over to play! I tried to reinact it for the video camera but of course she wouldn't perform. I'm glad Greg put all the baby-proofing things up this weekend! This and the fact that we packed away all of her clothes she's outgrown so far today is kind of bittersweet. I'm glad she's progressing but I still sometimes miss my little baby.

Peyton is 9 months old!

What a big girl she is becoming! Peyton loves to pull up and walk around tables. She can scoot several feet to get to what she wants. She's even starting to scoot around while sitting but still not "crawling". She loves to play peek-a-boo and sing "I'm a little teapot". She says ba ba ba and still loves blowing rasberries. Her new thing is clicking her tongue. She's getting really good at feeding herself puffs/cheerios and loves her morning oatmeal. We're starting to see a little stranger anxiety.

On Monday she was 22lbs 10oz! We have her check-up on Tuesday so it will be interesting to see how much she can gain in a week. :-) Oh, and her other top tooth did come in, so that makes 4 total.

Our poor baby

We took Peyton to the doctor today because she has had an on-and-off fever, bad cough, runny nose and wheezing since Thursday night. And, she didn't want to eat very much, if you can believe that!

I kept her home Friday but by Sunday she didn't seem to be getting any better, even after giving her several breathing treatments we had left over. With that and since RSV is going around at daycare we called the doc.

We got into the doc at 8:45 this morning and didn't get home until 11:15. We ended up having to go get her x-rayed and found out she has some sort of "infiltrates" in her lungs. I'm going to ask more questions at her 9-mo checkup next week since all we really heard today was that she was going to take amoxycillan and continue with the albuterol treatments and she was going to be okay.

Now Greg, who was trying to get rid of a cold, is feeling bad again and I have a sore throat. Greg and I are ready to take her out of that darn daycare. Good thing is that this afternoon she was back to playing like normal and almost has her appetite back.

Our latest accomplishment

Peyton has been climbing all over for a while now but always wants our help to pull up. She's really been working on pulling up on her own and tonight I saw her do it all by herself for the first time using a laundry basket. It made her so happy. She just kept banging on the basket and waving her little butterfly. She even made a little walking trip down one side of the basket. If she could stand during all of her waking hours she would be perfectly content. Now I just need to get her to realize that when she lets go with both hands she's going to fall down!

Update on the crawling...she hated the thing we brought home from daycare. But, she is starting to scoot like an inch worm.