We felt very proud today as we schlepped towards the doctor's office, having scheduled Teo and Talia to have their 2 year/4 month appointments, respectively, back to back. It still took forever. We were there for two hours!
Both kids are doing great. Talia weighed in at nearly 14 pounds, which is the 50th percentile for her age. She's 24 inches long. She's a pretty mellow baby and laid very cooperatively on the table to be measured, but somehow they managed to get it wrong by two inches the first time. That is a lot on a baby! We (having chilled out considerably since child #1) didn't care too much about how long she really was, but the doctor insisted on remeasuring. I think they measured her head, too, but I forget the number. It's tracking an appropriate curve, which is the important thing.
She seems to be doing well with developmental stuff - chatting, laughing, etc. She's not really trying to roll yet, but she loves to move around and has learned how to nearly scootch out of her bouncy chair. She also likes to chat and will give a huge grin to anyone who comes within her line of sight. She got a bunch of shots and screamed her little head off, but calmed down right away once she got some boob. She didn't have any reaction at all to her first set at 2 months and we're hoping this time will go just as smoothly.
We (Sacha and I) also got shots, by the way. Flu shots. Hopefully, this will mean no flu for us. Mine was my very first flu shot ever. Since we're both working with germy kids this year, we decided it was the way to go.
Meanwhile, Teo had his first appointment with Talia's pediatrician. We just switched him to Sacha's health insurance and had to leave our original ped, who we loved so much that we almost kept him on the old insurance just so he could keep seeing her. This new lady is good, but still no comparison to doctor #1. He weighed in at 24 pounds, which is somewhere below the 10th percentile for his age, and is 35 inches tall, which is around the 30th percentile, I think. He is a little stringbean! Doubling his current height, which we think you can do at age 2 to predict adult height, would put him around 5'10", which is probably about right for his genetic stock.
The doc didn't ask too much about developmental stuff until Sacha asked her about it. She mentioned that he should be able to use two-word phrases by now, which was a little strange because he was chattering away right in front of her. He's starting to use words like "sometimes" and "hopefully" in sentences. She also said he should be able to run and that he would probably be doing parallel play with other kids for awhile.
I think that's about it. Sacha just commented that we can't say we have two kids under the age of two anymore! We do, however, as one of the nurses commented, still have our hands full! Here's hoping we all have good health and stay out of the doctor's office this winter.
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On a totally different (and short, since this is already really long) note, we had a wonderful birthday party for our little guy yesterday. We had a great, and large, group come out and it was good to see everybody. At one point, I looked across the room and noticed just how many kids were spread out playing everywhere. Before Teo was born, we knew two kids in this area - my cousins! Now, two years later, we have this amazing community of all sorts of people and families. With Thanksgiving coming up, we have much to be thankful for.
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