Mia's 18 month appt

Last Friday, I took Mia to her 18 month appt. She is actually going to be 19 months in a few days. I can't believe how fast it's going. She was SUCH a happy kid there. She really loves her doctor and she flirted with everyone in the waiting room. I was a bit nervous since the appointment was right during her nap time.

They have you fill out this big two page paper (front and back) asking all kinds of questions about things your child can do. One part annoyed me - it gives you activities for them to do and then see if they can do it like puting things in a clear jar and tipping them over to get them out. WELL, I'm sure she probably could do that but since I just don't HAVE a bag of tricks with me, I couldn't exactly test her. Well, they put her down as not passing those because I wrote that she probably could do them. The doctor was going to have me come back in a month or see if she was doing those. I'm thinking, "yeah, I really don't HAVE another $25 to come just to tell you my daughter can flip something upside down." SO, I said, "Do you have something we can just try it with now?" Sheeeesh! So with a bottle of their's and some crackers of mine, Mia passed with flying colors. She is actually ahead on her motor skills, which I can tell. She amazes me at how balanced she is - she doesn't get that from me! LOL!

The questionnaire asked if she can say at least 8 words. At first I was stumped. I could barely think of eight but I put down that she could. Now, after her appt I have been so much more aware of which words she says and she says way more than eight - that I can understand. She has been doing a LOT of "gibberish". I just need the little "interpretor" bubble over her head so I get it. lol. One of the only "phrases" that I understand where she puts two words together is "All gone".

Some other words she says are : daddy, mama, diddy (sissy), eat, eeeese (please), cheese, woof (what she calls the dog), owwww (meow - what she calls the cats), no, yes, up, nanna (for bannana and Nanna), she did say Kendall once. I know she says other things, but that's all I can think of right now.

She is just above 50th percentile in height - she had a growth spurt and she is at 50th percentile in weight, 24 lbs. So, I have an average kid! Which is above average for us since Keira was just a tiny little thing.

She also knows a lot of her body parts - ears, eyes, mouth, hair, toes, hands. Thank you body parts book!

Anyway, I was very relieved the appointment went well and when I take her back for her two year, she won't need any vaccines. Yea!