9 months

Well today we went to the doctor for paige's 9 month check-up! She is 27inches long which is about average for her height! she is only 14.7 lbs which is really small for her age but the doctor wasn't too concerned because alex was the same way and she has been eating just fine! He said to just make sure she doesn't lose her apetite and as long as she is still gaining even just a little and growing in height then at her 12 month appointment then it's probably just genetic! I don't think her apetite is going anywhere! she eats all the time! We also asked the doctor about how to get her to take a bottle and he said that it was fine if she never even had a bottle and that she could just go straight to a sippy cup! We have been able to get her to drink out of a sippy cup but we have just been giving her the soft tip ones and all she does is bite them but stuff comes out when she does and she drinks what she gets out of it, and so he said if she's drinking out of that then that would be the best direction to go even though she's just biting it! She bite's on the bottle too but she usually just spits out what ever gets in! He also gave us some other kind of formula! We tried two different brands of formula and she threw them both up! So he gave up a kind that is supposed to be good for babies who spit up a lot! it's not soy it's just supposed to be more gentle on their stomachs! So we will try it and see how this all goes! He said that it will be a slow process so i guess i have to learn patience! He said that if we really need to wean her right away it could be done quicker but it would be harder on both of us so i guess this is the eaisier way to go it's just longer! Everything else went really well at the appointment! Everyone in the waiting room thought she was adoreable! Oh i forgot she also got a shot which she didn't like one bit but she didn't cry very long after! She was a little bit fussy later but i think that she did really well!