9 month checkup and ear infections

Yesterday was Noah's 9 month physical... here are the stats:

Weight: 22 lbs, 2 oz (75th percentile)
Height: 29.5 inches (75th percentile)
Head: 27.5 cm (95th percentile)

We are glad to be back down to 75th percentile for weight... I guess all the moving around has slowed down that crazy weight gain we'd seen up until now! And I think he's taking after his daddy with that head... Waylon has trouble finding hats that fit - even now! :-) Hopefully that means that he's going to take after his daddy and be very smart, too!

Unfortunately, it wasn't all fun stats during that appointment. Sunday night, Noah woke up almost every hour and when he finally got up in the morning, he was burning up. I took his temperature and he had a fever of 102.1!! I knew we had the physical that afternoon, so I just gave him tylenol and stripped him down to his diaper. I was able to get the fever down to 101.4. Later, just before we went to the appointment, it spiked to 103.0! I was nervous that it had gotten that high, but Noah was still (fairly) happy and eating well, too. The doc confirmed what I suspected and said that he had two nasty ear infections - yet again. :-( So, more antibiotics - fun fun. Our poor little man has probably forgotten what it feels like to be healthy!!

Last night, he slept all night and woke appearing to feel much better and only had a low grade fever of 100.6. We decided to try taking him to daycare and told them to call if he seemed to not feel well or just extra tired or whatever. He did fine all day and was tired tonight but still seemed to be feeling better, so that's good. His temp was down to 99.6 tonight.

Anyway, that's our health update! Otherwise, things are going well. We had a nice weekend. Noah and I helped Andrea register at Babies R Us on Saturday afternoon. It was fun picking out girly stuff for Savannah! While we were there, Waylon stayed home and installed all the cabinet door locks in the kitchen and bathrooms... the babyproofing begins! On Sunday, we had a nice get together with one of my new coworkers, Deirdre, and her family. Deirdre and her husband, Gabe, have two boys, Owen and Griffin, who are 3 years and 18 months. That was so fun!

I have no new pictures to post today, sorry! In the meantime, if you want to check out the rest of his 9 month pictures (there are 80 in total), here's the link....

www.parhampictures.shutterfly.com