9 month appointment
Today was Hazel’s 9 month well-baby appointment. Her weight gain has slowed down considerably- she has moved from the 75th percentile to the 50th percentile for weight, and is still around the 50th percentile for length. She is growing perfectly for her age- it’s a little strange for us not to have a really chubby baby anymore. Ever since Hazel started crawling and cruising she has thinned out so much! Her head, however, is still in the extremely large category- 85th percentile!! It takes a lot of noggin to snap and clap and cruise around. Hazel is growing extremely well and even impressed the nurses and doctor with her snapping, waving, babbling and general excitement.
In other exciting news, we bought plane tickets today and Hazel and I will be making a trip to the passport office next week. My dissertation research has been accepted as a paper presentation at the Association for Moral Education’s annual conference in Utrecht this July. We will be flying to Amsterdam at the end of June and spending two weeks in Europe!! It was a major decision, but after talking it through today we decided this would be one of the last times we would have a real excuse to go to Europe- and we both realized how much easier it will be to travel with just one baby, once there are other little ones around we may not even consider traveling long distances for quite some time. So we are going to Europe! We are traveling with Hazel in our laps since a child’s ticket costs the same as an adult ticket and we are already flying in high season- but we got great flights. We will be flying into Amsterdam, attending the conference the 1st-4th of July and then driving or taking the train to Germany where we will visit my mom’s side of the family, staying with my Oma. We also plan to do a few day trips and Heidelberg is definitely on the agenda. July will be here before we know it and we still have plenty of details to iron out, but we are incredibly excited to take Hazel back to where Jered and I first met. How appropriate that we are going back to visit, this March marks the tenth year Jered and I have been together- hard to believe how quickly time passes.
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