12 month appointment

Raegan's 12 month well check was yesterday. She's starting to change - last visit she was 50% for height and 55% for weight. This visit she was 70% for height and 40% for weight. She's only gained a pound and 5 ounces since her last visit 3 months ago. I think it's because she doesn't put up with jarred baby food for long before she wants to start feeding herself, and I know she doesn't get as much in that way. I'm not actually concerned about it, because she's developing well and she is eating a wide variety of food, so all is good.

I opted for only one vaccination this time (HepA), and we'll go back in a month or so for the MMR. I was pleased to hear that our pediatrician won't allow children to get the MMR and the varicella at the same time since they are both live viruses. That had been one of my concerns looking at the AAP vaccination schedule, and it was nice to know that our office thinks about those things too. I'm not completely convinced that I'm going to get Raegan a varicella until closer to kindergarten, because you build a much better immunity from getting chickenpox than you do from the vaccination, but we'll see. Raegan did run a low fever (100.4) last night and was terribly crabby and fussy yesterday, which I attribute to a combination of the vaccine and her cold. However, I do feel better getting them spaced out a little.

Raegan had to have her blood lead level and her iron level checked, so we had to go to the lab and have her thumb pricked. She didn't cry at the actual prick, but after a minute of having her arm held down to get blood she was less than pleased.

So Raegan is developing beautifully and we'll go back in 3 months for her 15 month appointment.

Past and Present

While puttering around on here during Raegan's nap, trying to figure out how to load a little slideshow of pics on the sidebar of my blog, I logged in to my Photobucket account. Which I haven't been in for years. It was awesome to see all these pictures of Zane when he was younger (which I don't have on my current computer because the old one crashed and I have yet to spend the money to get the hard drive off of it). I think I'm going to post some of them (from the kindergarten to first grade era) on here sometime, but for now here's a comparison picture. I cannot believe how much he's grown up. Granted, the first picture was 6 years ago, but still. :)


This is from Zane's first day of kingergarten (August 2004). Look at how little he is! I remember at the time Luke and I were talking about how big he looked, in comparison to his chubby cheeked toddler and preschool years.

I'm pretty sure I've posted this one on here already. This was Zane's last day of 5th grade, which was also his last day of elementary school. At his physical last week he was 5'1, which puts him at the 85% for height. And (MOM - lol) he's not as skinny as he used to be - his weight is up to 86 pounds, which puts him at exactly the 50%. Zane's jumped up quite a bit since his physical last November, when he was in the 30-some percentile for weight and 58 or 59% for height (if I'm remembering right).

They grow up way to quickly!