three quarters

Yesterday we went for Maggie's 9 month checkup and everything looks good, yay. This whole time we had been thinking she was a big baby but she is actually not! Here are her measurements:

height - 28" 67%
weight - 18.0 lbs 35%
head - can't remember but it was 87%

So actually her head is pretty big. She has really thinned out some though (her weight was at 75% or so at her last checkup), so from now on we will be giving her more food to fatten her up! Hehe :) Dr. Laura said she can pretty much have everything we eat now, as long as it's soft enough, except for eggs, honey, and milk. But she can have other dairy. She had some full-fat greek yogurt today which I tried and it was GOOD. Much better than the non-fat version we usually get...tastes almost like sour cream actually.

Also, her teeth are coming in! We were feeling along her bottom gums and there are some sharp things poking through there. I was surprised, because drooling and fussiness are supposed to be precursors to teeth coming in and I hadn't noticed a spike in either recently. She's definitely been drooling a lot for a while now.

So she keeps on getting more and more grabby. Yesterday at Trader Joe's she was sitting in the shopping cart and yanked down a sign from a display and started chewing on it. Also it seems like her old toys aren't as interesting to her as all these new things that she's started to notice around her. For example, at the dinner table, she'll go for the place mat, or cup, or napkin, or anything else but her little pink piggy toy which is also on the table. Go figure.

And, of course, I have to include some photos. Here's Marlon opening his Father's Day card with the girls:



And Maggie playing with a container of banana puffs :)




On the running front, still no running for me. This tendon is really taking it's time to heal...apparently it's a slow healer because it gets used just walking around so it doesn't get to rest much, but if you wear a walking boot then all the muscles around it will just atrophy and you'll end up with different problems. I've been doing some stationary biking and strength stuff at the gym in the meantime but nowhere near as much as I used to run - maybe about 30 min 3-4 times a week? Better than nothing though.