Dr Appt

Grant reading to Alayna while waiting...

Feb 17, Alayna had her 2 year dr appt. She weighs 23lbs 10oz which is the 20th percentile and is 33.5 inches tall - the 30th percentile. This continues to follow her growth chart as in the past - so that's great! What do we have to look forward to in the next year? Well - we can switch to skim milk. Hooray. You'd think that would mean we now only need to buy one kind of milk right? WRONG - Grant is still drinking whole with Carnation Instant Breakfast for the extra calories :) Oh well! We've been buying 2 kinds for 2 years - why stop now :) What else? This summer we will need to work on learning how to pedal on a bike - which Grant learned last summer so hopefully that will go well. We also have to work on things like knowing colors and drawing circles.
She does know her alphabet, can count to 10, knows she is a girl and NOT a boy, etc. As far as colors go - she starting to be able to pick things out if I ask her to point to the red something or blue something - but if I ask "what color is this?" - the answer is likely to be blue (no matter what).

Going into the dr appt Alayna informed me she was going to cry (apparently she remembered from last time). I tried to talk her out of it, but she did in fact cry. She was very skeptical of the dr when she was checking her out, but she let her do everything she asked. HOWEVER when the nurse came back - she knew she was getting a shot. Only one shot this time, but the real bummer was the finger poke for the lead test. The finger poke was first and they literally poke her finger and then collect blood from the poke into this little tube. Well - Alayna's blood came so quickly and I believe they told me it was thin - so it wasn't collecting into the tube - it was just making a huge mess all over. The nurse had to get a 2nd tube and Alayna was just have a fit. She was so sad. Once that was over - they put a huge band aid on her finger. I think that was almost as traumatic as the poke itself. The shot in her leg was not enjoyed, it was like bad icing on top of a crummy cake, but her finger - she couldn't get over. I gave her a sucker before it all even started and she didn't eat it for over an hour. Typically they are gone in minutes - this one she held on to the whole time we were with the nurse, leaving the office, driving to Kohls and half way through our shopping excursion. When we got home we took the HUGE band aid off and put on a smaller hello kitty band aid...that seemed to make it all better :) Crazy - next time I'm going to remember to bring them along with me to the appt!

Overall - she's a healthy little 2 yr old!