Yearly Checkups

Piper and Pennington had their one year and two year checkups today. It is pretty awesome that we can do them together.

Our biggest concern related to Piper was the fact she doesn't sleep. Dr. Booth gave us some ideas on how to get her to sleep. Nothing that we haven't already heard but hopefully hearing it again will help.

Our biggest concern related to Pennington was the fact that he isn't talking much. As I expect Dr. Booth isn't concerned at all. He said we can worry about it when he is three or f0ur if he doesn't make any progress over the next year or so.

Overall Dr. Booth thought they both looked great.

Below are the stats:

Pennington

Height: 34 1/4 inches (50th percentile)

Weight: 26 pounds (30th percentile)

Piper

Height: 29 1/2 inches (70th percentile)

Weight: 19 pounds (20th percentile)

The stats about Pennington didn't surprise me much. Pretty exactly where he has always been.

The stats about Piper did surprise me some. I can't believe she is in the 70th percentile for height. I guess my little girl is taller than I thought. I also really thought her weight was already 20 pounds. I guess I can't turn her car seat around yet. By the way, they are recommending now that you don't turn the car seat around until they are 2. It isn't law but rather a recommendation based on statistics. I have to be honest that I don't know if that is really going to work for us. Piper is close to not fitting into her infant car seat anymore which we use in Johnny's car (Element). She hardly still fits in it right now. The Element is really hard to use a rear facing car seat in. Basically instead of putting the child in from the side like you would in a normal car in the Element (due to the placement of the doors) you would have to put the child in over the top of the car seat which is really tricky and frankly probably would hurt the child since you would just have to hope they landed in the right spot. So the moral of the story is that when Piper hits 20 pounds we are going to put her in a forward facing car seat in the Element. I think in my car (Volvo) we will probably try to keep her rear facing for a while longer. If there is anything I have learned as a mom it is that recommendations change all the time (tummy or back to sleep, no bummers in cribs, rear facing car seats until they turn 2, ect.) At the end of the day if it isn't illegal you just have to do what works best for you and your child.