First up, Amelia had her 9 month check-up, bright and early this morning. She weighed in at 15lbs 6ozs (up 2lbs 6ozs from her 6 month check), putting her in the 2% still. She is now 26.75" long (up 1.25" from her 6 month check), putting her in the 19%...however, I know her length was not the most accurate reading because she was being quite the wiggle worm, and the nurse didn't really wait for her to calm down. So, she's still a teeny tiny little thing. However, for the first time ever, the doctor told me flat out he's not worried any longer. At this point, she's been following the 2-5% curve for quite some time, and she's developing well, so he said he's pretty certain that she's just genetically small. The check up went well overall. I did chat with him about her breathing for a while. She's had very nasally breathing ever since she was born, and it's just not going away. Almost like she's trying to catch her breath half the time. Originally he'd thought it was an environmental thing, and he still thinks it could be, but it is strange that she's not growing out of it. Right now, we're just going to use saline nose drops regularly to see if that helps. If not, we'll start giving her Benedryl before bed to see if that helps. And, if she's still not getting better, we'll have to do an overnight in the hospital so they can monitor her sleep. This could be a big reason she still wakes during the night...her snoring and breathing is waking her up. After the hospital, they'll either say she's fine, and just has these breathing issues, or they'll know if something needs to be removed or anything. So, we'll see what happens over the next few months with that.
After the appointment, we stopped at Target to get a few things. Mainly, we are kicking off potty training with Olivia this weekend, so we needed to get some necessities for that...underwear, M&M's, stickers...all that good stuff. After a trip through Target, we got some Taco Bell for lunch (our usual post-doctor lunch), ran home to eat some lunch, then the girls were down for their nap. We've been pretty good about getting the girls to nap together, but not for a good, long amount of time. One of them always wakes up, waking the other, and then it's all over.
So, after naps, Potty Training began. Olivia was pretty excited about it. I showed her the jar of M&M's, her sticker sheet and we just spent the night on the potty pretty much. She ended up going #1 three times (with one TINY accident, that happened on her way to the potty) and even went #2 on there! I was so excited. I know it's just the beginning, but we're off to a great start, and I'm SUPER excited at the idea of no more two in diapers! We put her to bed with a diaper, as we will for a little while, so we'll start back up in the morning. Fingers crossed!
Here are some potty training photos, including one that's actually from Sunday (sneak peek at how well she did over the weekend)! YAY!!!
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