well baby

Adah
9 months

16 and a half lbs. (12th percentile)
head 17.5" (60th percentile)
length 29" (90th percentile)

Yesterday Adah had her first well-baby check-up since she was new.
We haven't ever taken her in because she is our first baby who actually is well! (:
With Camden it was the plagiocephaly.
Jude had extreme eczema/infections/malnutrition issues.
And Gwyneth with her Brown's Syndrome. Not to be confused with Downs Syndrome.
We learned quickly to enunciate that one very, very clearly.

But Adah has been a dream in every way.
It is such a relief to not have some major problem to worry over.

She hasn't gained any weight in over 6 months.
Not normal, but she is still very healthy. Just small.
Strange.
We've never had a small baby before! (:
She was by far the biggest at birth.

She has quite a large hemangioma on her back, next to her spine.
Not pretty.
Every other doctor has said it'll be gone by her first birthday.
Yesterday we were told not to expect it to be gone until her 4th birthday.
I'm so thankful, for Adah, that it's not on her face.

She is now bearing weight on her legs, thanks to a lot of patience on Daddy's behalf.
And most likely is just too laid back to really care enough to try, or so the Dr. says.

"What words does she understand?" the doctor asked.
"All of them." I replied.
She couldn't believe the list of vocabulary words I rattled off.
She said she has never seen such a young baby with such a large vocabulary.
And then she repeated herself. Two more times.

Then she asked, "What has she eaten so far today?"
She stopped me half way through the list to tell me she couldn't believe she ate that much, never moved, and is still so tiny.

Lucky girl.

And then Adah got quite the compliment when the doctor told her she needed to take samples so that she could be genetically reproduced. Creepy concept. But sweet non-the-less.(:

We are so thankful all is well with our little angel!