Mo's 9-month Check-up

That's right, time flies! Richard took Moses to his 9-month checkup today. He’s doing well, aside from the food allergies. But even with those, his eczema is improved immensely and we’re doing well at avoiding the culprit foods.

He only has 2 bottom teeth. The two top teeth should be next to come, but nothing is even brewing yet. His sisters had 4 teeth a piece with more brewing at 9 months.

He has been sitting up by himself the past couple weeks – getting better and better. He gets into the crawling position with his belly off the floor and goes up on his tippy-toes trying to move forward. Sometimes he does, by pure luck though. He tends to get frustrated and just roll his way around to where he wants to go. I think within the week he will be crawling. His sisters started crawling around 10 months, so it will happen eventually... and then the real work for us begins! Hahaha.

Here are his 9-month stats:

Weight: 23 lbs. 4 oz. (on an empty stomach no less! 94^th percentile)

Height: 29.3 inches (86^th percentile)

Head circumference: 47.5 cm (97^th percentile – right on par for our big-headed children hehe)

For comparison, his sisters weighed about that much at a year old! Granted, girls are on different charts than boys, but still… he’s a big dude.

At 9 months old, Frances weighed in at 21 lbs. 3 oz.; was 28.5 inches long; and had a 46cm head.

Grace was 21 lbs. 4 oz.; 28 inches long; and 46 cm head.

At 9 months old, cousin Ben weighed in at 22 lbs. 7 oz. and was 30 inches long.

Savannah??

Time will tell if Moses will continue to be a big boy. His sisters have thinned out considerably. In fact, Grace only weighs about 9 oz. more than she did a year ago! While Frances has gained about 2 pounds. So we shall see. Although I’m content to wait as long as possible because these kids are already growing too fast! Haha.

I forgot to mention that on April 8^th we welcomed a new baby cousin, Juliet, to the family, weighing in at a whooping 11 lbs. 9 oz.! Beating her “big” brother! Something tells me she’ll be off the charts on her well visit check-ups J.