18 months and counting . . .

This is a little late but we didn’t go to the doc for her check-up until last Thursday and as many of you know Claire and I have been sick ever since. We have whatever is going around that Daddy brought home from the hospital a week or so ago. It has hung on longer than I was expecting. Poor little Claire just coughs until she is red sometimes but it doesn’t seem to have gotten her down. She is just running around playing as much as usual. She does take some breaks and *gasp* actually cuddles with me for a little while. Be still my heart. I hope we both get well soon but I could certainly get used to the snuggling. Anyway on to the Doctor’s Report -

She hasn’t gained any weight since the last appointment according to the doctor’s scale. She is still at 25 pounds which is the 59% (I weighed her at home more than once before the appointment at 26) and the Doctor was not concerned at all. She did grow an inch which brings her to 32 inches tall which is 55%. And her noggin is in the 95 percentile. Gee I wonder where she gets that . . . blessed from both sides and hopefully it means lots of brains!

On other notes she was ahead of what she was expected to do at this age. She should be able to point to two body parts and she can do twelve. She should be able to stack two blocks and she can do six. Being able to do a puzzle is way ahead of the game for her age. She does a lot of pretend play and follow directions really well. She is on track for speech the doctor said even though we were concerned. She easily has a dozen or so words and she should be between 5 to 20 at this point. Dr. I said they don’t have to be very clear but saying the same thing when talking about something. Just in the past couple of days she said More, Zebra and Ducky. Otherwise we are on track, she needs to drink more milk – last time we were feeding her too much – guess we overcorrected. All in all a good 18 month check-up.