check up

boden had his 18 month check up this week. tried to write about it earlier, but the blogger was down....

stats:
-weight: 26 pds 11 oz (60th percentile)
-height: 33 inches (75th percentile)
-head circumference: i think 50 cm??? and for the life of me i can't read the percentile marking the nurse wrote. doesn't even look like a number. maybe it is a code that his head is off the charts??? :)

so he has been holding pretty steady with the weight (btw 50-60 % since he was born), but the height has been higher. for whatever reason, it is hard for me to see it dip slightly (it has been 80-90 % since he was born). of course, he was writhing around like a wild animal as the nurse and eric tried to hold him down to get the measurement... eric thinks i'm silly. i guess i am.

if you remember, last time was quite the surprise and traumatic trip to the doctor as boden absolutely spazzed out. i guess it is the norm for this age. anyway, this time i came armed with favorite toys, books, and snacks. he still carried on (at times it was hard to even hear the doctor tell us things) and fought pretty hard (when the doctor was checking his legs full on with boden laying on his back, he kicked the doctor pretty hard a couple times. the doctor seemed sorta of surprised and laughed a little). not sure if this time was better or worse than last time. didn't seem to bother me as much though. so, maybe it wasn't as bad as last time, or i'm just getting used to boden's siren screaming. :)

we did talk to the doctor about the screaming he has been doing. which he said that all kids go thru the screaming and tantrum stage and there isn't really much we can do about it but ignore it and not give in to him and he assured us it will sometime stop.... he also said that we could start giving him short time outs for about 30 seconds at a time now if we want to. we told him we were already doing timeouts at 2 mins a crack....

overall, he checked out really well. he was doing all the things the doctor asked about (word count, throwing and kicking balls, ect.) we told him that he eats a ton of cheese or broccoli straight sometimes and then hardly nothing at all and has become quite the picky eater when it comes to trying new things (very different from when he was a baby). he said that his weight is holding just fine and we shouldn't worry.

no shots, and i think we actually don't have any until 4 or so??? can't quite remember. and we don't go back, barring sickness :), until his second birthday!!! wow! it goes so quickly!!!!!