Well, so much for me calling Elliott Chunky Monkey! He had his 9 month checkup yesterday. He is 29 1/2 inches long (87th percentile), and only 19 pounds 13 ounces (38th percentile!). I thought he would weigh at least 21 pounds! Got two shots yesterday and a finger poke. He actually only cried for about 30 seconds after the shots. He did well!
So since he has passed 29 inches, I am going out car seat shopping for him today. 29 inches is the maximum length for his infant car seat.
You can still call him a chunky monkey if you hold him next to Scarlett. At her 9 month appt she was 27 inches and 15 lbs, 4oz. So about the 35th for height, 3rd for weight. She's about the size my others were at 5-6 months!
Regarding the carseat, as long as the top of his head is more than an inch below the top of the seat (and of course his weight is in line with the recs), you an still use the seat. The height is a guideline, but some kids have longer legs than others, so they could be 34 inches and still fit in the seat, while others have longer torsos. Just wanted to throw it out there in case you haven't found a carseat you like, or want to shop around more for a sale or something. My BIL is a car seat tech so I get a lot of random car seat info.
We moved here on 7/26 (though our moving truck didn't arrive till 8/9) and we're still not totally unpacked either. I am really close, but we have been doing a lot of renovations so that delays things. Like I unpacked all the kids stuff for their rooms and most of the playroom, but then we pulled out all the old carpeting in those rooms and put in wood floors. So that meant all their furniture and stuff (and they have so much stuff!!) had to be repacked and moved out of their rooms into the living room. Then we did the same thing in the master bedroom. When that was finished will pulled out all of the flooring in the main living areas of the house (so the kitchen, family room, dining room, entryway, etc.) and we're installing travertine. So right now we have literally nothing in any of those rooms, it all had to be repacked and stuffed into our room, the office, the kids rooms, or the hallway to their rooms. It's crazy. And we thought they would finish Friday, but we're doing an inset to box out the dining room and the corner pieces didn't match up with the straight edges, so we are waiting for them to reorder the correct parts. Which means they can't seal the floor at all, which means no moving our stuff back. It's a huge pain, particularly with my mom visiting right now and my SIL coming on Thursday. We can only eat meals outside for the time being, which is generally okay since the weather here is really nice right now, but also kind of a pain in that it's simply inconvenient.
But once they seal the floors, all we have left to do is paint and we're pretty much set and ready to totally unpack and live here!
Flu shots: We all got them already, EXCEPT my husband, who is the #1 person in our household who should get one, but he "forgets" everyday. I am done reminding him, if he wants to get the flu then so be it. Last year he did the same thing, kept forgetting to get the flu shot at work, contracted the flu while working at Children's Hospital, then was so, so sick for days. So he should have learned his lesson. And if he gets the flu now, the kids and I are seriously going to a hotel cause even though Scarlett got the flu shot, I do not want to chance her catching it cause she's so young and already freakishly thin so I don't want her losing more weight.
I hope everyone had a great Halloween! We finished up the holiday festivities with the 4th round of trick or treating tonight. We went to a friend's house and walked with a mob of about 15-20 kids for an hour or so. We have more candy here than any of us need!
not much of a first Halloween.
