Anna's two year check-up was this morning, and she's coloring in the corner now, fully recovered from the trauma of it all. You would have thought from all the yelling and crying that she'd be scarred for life, but no. Coloring ponies makes everything better. Oh, the resiliency of kids!
The doc declared her super healthy, which is good to know, and he also said her tantrums are normal, even though they are on the more extreme side in terms of how frequent she has them and how suddenly they pop up and then disappear. He said to just keep doing what we're doing and gave us a handout on some loving discipline techniques to try. I have to say again, I really, really like Dr. Kuskie. He's very down-to-earth, straightforward and comforting in his lack of drama, hype or judgement.
Anna really is a stingbean, too! Her head circumference is in the 90th percentile, her height (she grew 2.5 inches!!!!) is in the 75th percentile and her weight... well, at 24 pounds, she's in the 12th percentile. She's so skinny! She's built like her daddy, long and lean. I was worried she hadn't gained more weight, but the doc said that it's obvious from her big height growth that she's getting enough calories, so that's okay. He was proud of her walking, too, but in such a way as make me feel he always knew she was going to walk and be just fine. She had two shots, poor girl, but seems fine now, so it was only a brief bit of terror for her. And that's all! Next time I see him it will be for my NEXT baby's first check-ups in February. That's a mind-blower!
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