Below Average

No, I'm not getting lazy, we've just been super busy. The big move is this weekend and I'm ashamed to say we're still not halfway packed! Arghhh......................

Anyway, we took Kayla to the doc's today for her shots and as usual, she wasn't happy. She cried before we entered the building, then cried some more after we went into the doctor's office and continued crying when they gave her her shots. We chose to stagger the shots so she wouldn't be in so much pain.

She also got her regular checkup and here's the report: Head (bigger than average), height (25 percentile, shorter than average - uh oh!), weight (she's dropped below 25 percentile but the doc doesn't seem too concerned.) In a nutshell, we have a tiny baby with a big head.

But here's the funny part: The doc was asking what I assume was the usual string of questions (is she drinking whole milk? from a cup? started walking?) and when it came to: "Has she started talking? How many words can she say?", Mike, the over-enthusiastic Daddy replied in a very matter-of-factly manner: About a hundred. And the doc thought he was joking. I quickly corrected Mikey and said, "Not a hundred, probably 50." Still the doc thought we were kidding.

"Babies at this age usually say only three to four words," he mumbled. And we left it at that. No point trying to prove our point when all Kayla would do in front of him is cry. :)

But we did make a list of all the words she knows, just so Mikey can prove that he was right about 100. And guess what, he's right. Her vocabulary's about 120-strong right now. Something tells me she's gonna be a real chatterbox!