The Chases Visit Dr. Brennan

Today the girls had doctor appointments. Norah didn't do very well last time (in CA) so I've been prepping her for a couple days about how she'd get to visit the doctor and nurses and tell them all about how she goes potty on the big girl toilet, etc. She also loves to weigh herself (um, yikes?) so I used that as an incentive too. She did much better today. No crying, and only a little bit of shy behavior.

Norah weighs 26.6 lbs. and is 35.5 inches tall. It was a sweet moment for me to see her get weighed on a normal scale and use the measuring thing they have on the wall instead of the baby scale and laying down measurement. She's growing up so fast! Norah's height is still 90th-95th percentile and her weight has gone up to almost 50th percentile. She hasn't been at that percentile since around 6 months! Dr. Brennan (or Dr. Wenneeen as Norah says) was impressed that Norah is potty trained already. Unfortunately she wouldn't say too much for him, but he took our word for it that she as an extensive and advanced vocabulary. I was pretty surprised to hear that doctors look for kids to say 2-3 word phrases at 2 years. Norah's been doing that since she was 15 months old! No shots for Norah, so overall it was a great experience for her.

Maggie weighed in at 17 lbs. today and was 27.5 inches. I was surprised by her weight since I weighed her last night at home using the extremely accurate mom and baby minus mom weighing method and she was 17.6 pounds. Oh well.... Maggie is at the 90-95th percentile mark for height also and has now dropped to about 70-75th for weight. Didn't see that coming. She sure is a chunky little thing. Maggie got three shots and one oral vaccine today. I told the nurse that she always throws up the oral one, fair warning! She did a little "trick" and Maggie actually swallowed it all and didn't throw it back up! Boy did she scream when she had the other three shots though. Maggie doesn't do well with vaccines and has been really cranky since. Her poor leg is all red and hot, and if you even look at it wrong she screams.

Both girls are doing great and we were told to "keep doing what you're doing." Thanks for the affirmation, Dr. Brennan. :)