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Happy October!

Noah is now nine months old.  It seems like he's been around forever - no wonder pregnancy seems to be never ending!  =)

We just had his check-up with his doctor, and here are the newest stats:

He is now 30 inches long and weighs 19 lbs. 12 oz.  The kid is tall and skinny (I have no idea who he gets it from.  ;-) )  The crazy thing is that he's actually dropped percentile points for both height and weight.  He's no longer off the charts for height.  Now, he's only in the 95th percentile.  He's just under 50th percentile for weight.  His head is 17 & 7/8 inches around putting him in the 50-75th percentile.

In other news, we just got two more teeth.  He had had two teeth on bottom and two teeth on top, and I was watching for the next two on top since they looked like they could pop out any time.  Well, tooth #5 turned out to be on the bottom.  Totally surprised me.  Then, the next day, tooth #6 showed up, but it's on top.   They are both on his right side so he's going to be a bit lopsided for a while.

In closing, for now, here's a recent picture of our 3/4 year old:

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