Longer, Leaner, and Quite the Screamer

Chewing on Sophie's ear

After her 2-month check up, I wrote that Fi is long and lean.  Well after her 4-month appointment I can say she is longer and leaner!  Fi is 25.5 inches long (in the 82nd percentile) and 12 pounds 2 ounces (in the 11th percentile).  The doctor says she is just fine though (for those of you worrying that she is too skinny), since she started out around the same weight percentile and has exceeded her birth length percentile.  Fiona did not handle her shots as well as she did last time though.  She was a little wiggly and fussy leading into the shots, and then came the blood curling scream when they stuck her.  I think the pain from the shots plus pain from teething put her over the top.  The doctor said she can't feel her teeth yet, but she doesn't doubt that Fione is hurting.  Tim came home with a Sophie giraffe to help ease her pain since it has lots of different smaller nobs for her to chew on like the ear and legs.  She seemed to be taking to it well.  Tim and I were initially skeptical of Sophie.  As Tim said when he was taking the package off: "Oh my God, I just bought my daughter a $25 squeeky toy."  But if that squeeky toy makes our Fiona pup happy, I think it was worth it.