K's 12 Month Check-Up

We visited Z for Kayley’s 12 month check-up today and received a great report! Like at her 9 month check-up, she was recorded to be tall, lean and healthy. Here are her 12 month stats:

Weight: 19lbs and 13ozs (25-50%)

Height: 30 and ½ inch (90-95%)

Head circumference: 18inch (50-75%)

She’s a tall one for someone her age. No wonder why people always guess she’s older than what she is. Z was impressed with how mobile she is, and her list of words and specific sounds she does for things; mama, dada, uh-oh, hi, and she recently started saying “ga” for books, and something that sounds like “woof woof” for dogs. Though she doesn’t do them all the time, she has those down pretty darn well.

She also can point at her nose when asked and her foot too. She also knocks when asked, claps, and she can “shake it baby shake it,” which is what we say when she has a shaker toy. There are a few other things she does when asked (like, “please give that to mommy,” and “can you share?”), but she’s still grabbing the concept of those. Today I actually asked her if she could “knock knock knock” while we were in the living room. She thus walked down the hall to the hall bathroom and knocked on the door. I was very impressed since she hadn’t done that before.

Anyway! Back to her doctor appointment! So Kayley is doing great for a little one her age. I told Z that Kayley had been fighting a temperature for about 4 days, and that when it went away her whole body broke out in a rash that doesn’t seem to both her at all. I was told this is very normal for little ones and not to worry about it and that it should be gone in a few days. I forgot what she said it was called, but it’s very common for 6 month to 2 year olds to get. So yay for being nothing else!

While at the doctors Kayley got three shots, one in her leg and one in the back of each arm. Oh I hate hearing her cry about it. =( I wish there was some way to explain to her that even though it hurts it’s to help keep her from getting sick. She recovered quite quickly though, though a pouty look was left on her face for a while. Before we left to go home, I let her have some time watching the fish so she could relax a bit more before being strapped into her car seat. That seemed to help. But she still had this look when I strapped her into her car seat:

Kayley's disapproving look

It seems very disapproving… Well, her next visit to see Z is when she is 15 months old.