Time for Juliette’s nine month check-up today, and she got a perfect report card. She tips the scales at 8.5kg (no wonder she feels so heavy when Dad carries her into daycare each day) and measures 71cm tall.
She had her first MMR vaccination today (mumps, measles, rubella), three months ahead of schedule. They vaccinate the kids our community ahead of schedule because of the large numbers of Swiss parents who opt out of vaccinating their kids — a decision which puts their kids as well as mine at risk. We are a generation that has forgotten what these terrible diseases look like.
The doctor was amazing. She distracted Juliette with a hopping wind-up toy and a music box, and gave her the vaccination without Juliette even noticing. I’d been bracing myself for a morning of tears and soothing, and instead I got a totally contented child who acted like nothing unusual had happened.
She’s been great all day, and is clearly not bothered at all by the vaccine. She’ll be nine months old in two days; I don’t know where the time has gone. You blink and you miss it.

Juliette’s gettin’ her hair did.

Happy as can be

Standing up. Practice makes perfect!