Doctor Visit

Wow, I am quite the blogger this month, huh? I think it's the fact I am so miserably bored with winter and am trying to find things to pass the time until we can be OUTSIDE! It is so miserably cold here . . . Alex is able to answer the question, "What does the wind say?" ("Whoosh" in case you weren't sure).

Alex had his 18 month well visit today. Here are some things he did NOT enjoy:
1. When the nurse called him out of the waiting room. He screamed, threw himself on the floor, and crawled away from her.
2. When they measured his head circumference.
3. When they took his temperature.
4. When they listened to his heart.
5. When they looked in his ears.
6. When they checked his reflexes.
7. When he had to sit on the scale (that was REALLY bad I guess).
8. When they measured his height.
9. When they checked his belly/diaper area/legs.
10. When they gave him a shot.

ALL of those things made him scream! He was NOT a happy patient!

He was pretty on track developmentally, though. They asked me . . .
1. Does he say 4-10 words? Yes.
2. Can he throw/kick a ball? Well, he can throw (kind of) and I've never seen him try to kick.
3. Can he climb stairs standing up if you hold his hand? Yes.
4. Does he try to eat with a fork and spoon? Yes, he uses them all the time.
5. Can he point to at least 3 body parts that you name? Um, let's see, I think he can do three . . . he knows hair, head, eyes, nose, cheeks, ears, teeth, lips, tongue, mouth, arms, hands, fingers, belly, legs, feet, toes. Anything else and we're going internal, or to certain things I am not ready to discuss yet.

Oh, by the way, here's something you can file under the category, "Why didn't I think of this sooner?" Scenario: me -- tired, freezing cold. Alex -- getting bored. Me: "Alexander, mommy wants to take a bath. Do you want to play upstairs while mommy takes a bath?" Alex: "Yeah!" So, I put the gate up at the top of the stairs, take a bath with the door open, and he gets lambie out of the crib and runs around up there. Genius.

And that was my day on Boomerang Drive!

-- Holly