Avery's 18 month check-up

Today was Avery's 18 month check-up. It was pretty uneventful, which is good. I stripped Avery down to a diaper (standard procedure) when we first got there so they could weigh and measure her. We left the check-up room to go to the scale and Avery could hear a baby crying down the hallway. She looked up at me with these big eyes and just froze in her place. After some gentle tugging on her hand I finally got her to follow me down the hall. But Avery was still kind of freaked out and wouldn't stand on the scale, so we had to put her on the baby scale. Normally this isn't a problem, but that other baby crying had set Avery off and she started to cry. She tried to climb off the scale, but the nurse put her back in and Avery weighed in at 23 pounds, 11 ounces.

Then the nurse had to measure her, which caused more big eyes and protesting, but she finally got the job done and Avery measured in at 31 1/2 inches. Her head (more whimpering) came in at 46.5 cm.

By this time the other baby had stopped crying and so Avery calmed down. We saw the doctor and everything checked out fine. Avery only had to have one shot today, but it is a tetanus shot, kind of a bad one. So the nurse had me give Avery tylenol right away and said that there would probably be a fever and some swelling. This made me feel bad since Avery just got over her other fever, but I know this one won't be as high and won't last as long.

Avery's weight puts her in the 35th-40th percentile and her height puts her in the 40th-50th percentile. I guess she's slowing down a little bit on her growth and is no longer "tall" for her age. She doesn't have her next check-up until she is 2! The time is going by so fast. As Al said the other night, she isn't a baby anymore :(