Before I forget

We took Evelyn in for her nine-month appointment this week. The doctors pronounced her a healthy little girl. And so, of course, we wanted to record her stats (probably no one cares about these but us, but since this blog also doubles as our family journal, here they are). She weighed in at just shy of 20 lbs (19.13) and was 28.5 inches long (although the nurse initially entered 18.5 inches into the computer which, as it was shorter than she was when she was born, led to printouts suggesting that our poor baby was more than unusually fat). Her head circumference, in true Collings fashion, was 18.5 inches, or in the 99.2th percentile. Since the rest of her hovers around the 75-80th percentile, this means she has one bonefide big head. Aside from her abysmal sleeping at night, she really is a charming baby. We'll keep her. (Although we may--to my dismay--be up to sleep training her again next week, at our pediatrician's suggestion. Waking up 4 times (or more!) between 8-6 is unexceptable in a 9 month old! She surely doesn't need to eat every two hours at night, not at her weight!)