She weighed in at 19.1 pounds and measured 29 inches.
The girl who called our name from the waiting room asked us "Does she like to stand on the scale or use the baby scale?" In my mind, I was like "What? She is a BABY, of course she isn't ready for the BIG GIRL SCALE!" but instead I just walked over to the baby scale and sat her down! HAHA There will be plenty of times for her to STAND on a scale! I don't need her to be afraid of needles AND scales just yet! Another realization that she isn't a baby.
While I enjoy looking back on her infant time, I am so amazed at the little girl she is growing into and how much fun it is to see the new things she experiences every day. I strive at least once a day to see things from her perspective, to laugh just for the sake of laughing, from the inside out!
She still has her cold she got for her birthday from Grandma, but just a runny nose and sneezing really, nothing a humidifier, saline and an elevated mattress can't handle so far.
She got her Flu shot booster in one leg and Prevnar in the other. She also got a TB test in her arm. She was a trooper. I have all of her band aids from all of her shots this last year saved for her baby book, man that was a lot of shots!
She has to have a blood draw from a lab (not just a finger prick like I thought). There is a new Oakland Children's Hospital Lab in Modesto that was suggested so we will probably try that out. All should be okay.
NEWEST thing: In addition to her 125 signing vocabulary that just seems to grow daily, she has learned to play "Where did it go?" with just about anything. She will for instance take a small toy and hide it behind her back, put it in her pretend pocket, or if sitting hide it between her legs, and then put her little hands palm up and shrug her shoulders in an effort to say "Where did it go?" and you say it and look around and then she gets it out as quickly as she can and she shows it to you very proudly with her facial expression clearly saying "HERE IT IS" and then we all clap. It is HILARIOUS.
Another fun thing she is doing these days is playing pretend. Not only is it cool to see her 'feed' her dolly and teddy, but she will 'pick up' something off of the ground, the air, the table and hand it to you and then say "thank you". Her little fingers are clenched so tight holding the 'pretend' item it cracks you up. One time she picked up 'something' off the floor, and crawled over to me to give it to me, the whole time keeping her fingers together so tight on the 'pretend object' they were white on the tips.
Not a day goes by that we don't laugh and learn. Playskool has it right...PLAY LAUGH GROW.
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