Nine Month Check Up

This is several days late due to the exhaustion that followed Evan's 9 month check up. Tuesday we were at the pedi for a better portion of the morning. So his stats are: 18lbs 14 ozs, 30 in long and healthy. Due to the fact he only gained two pounds since his 6 month check up we are going to switch his reflux med from Axid to Prilosec. My thinking is that Evan is probably never going to be a "chubby" baby. He is very healthy so that is not an issue. Hopefully, we can get him eating a little more with the new medication. It tastes awful! He gags every time I give it to him. I called the pharmacy this morning and they said to bring it in and they would flavor it. They didn't originally because they weren't sure they could since it was a compounded drug. Sometimes it affects the stability of the drug. He got one vaccination this time. He did really good with that, but when it came time for the finger prick, that was a different story. They needed to check his hemoglobin and unfortunately had to do it twice. It was pretty high for his age. We will be checking it again in a month. My family is very curious about it. For those of you who don't know my Mom has polycythemia vera. I won't get into it now, but it is a rare blood disease. It is not supposed to be genetic, but the support groups say that most have second and third generation issues.
Anyway, he had a really rough night Tuesday and all day and night Wednesday. Poor thing just cried most of the night Wednesday. Last night he crashed. I put him to bed at 9pm and we didn't hear a thing out of him until 8:20am. I woke up several times and he was sleeping very peacefully. Thank the Lord! He is in good spirits today. Laughing at most everything his Daddy does! He pulls himself up very easily now and walks behind his truck that has wheels. Yesterday he tried to venture out by himself. Of course he fell flat, but he got right back up and tried again. I don't have any new pics to post, but I will get some this weekend and post.