One Year Check Up

We took Avery in yesterday for her one year check up.  I met Jason and both girls at the peds office after I got off work Monday morning.  Jason had said that Lily had thrown up in her sleep Sunday night.  She looked fine and was playing, but she was supposed to get her flu mist and I was a little hesitant in letting her get it.  I told the nurse that she had thrown up but she didn't have a fever so they said it would be fine.  Lily then got as white as a ghost and had diarrhea at the office, so I opted to wait until another day!  She obviously wasn't feeling well and we are still early enough into the season so we will just make another trip back to see Dr. Russell!  Lily really wasn't feeling well and was asking to go home, so Jason left with her and she threw up again in the car on the way home.  Poor kiddo! 

On to Avery...

She is healthy and happy and doing great!  Her hemangioma's on her back may be starting to fade...the upper one anyway.  It is turning a grayish blue in the middle and appears to be spreading out.  The lower one looks the same.  Avery could have gotten 5 shots (because the flu shot was an extra one this time), but I opted to only let her have 3 since she could get the rest in 3 months at her 15 month visit.  They checked her hemoglobin and lead levels with a finger stick and she didn't even flinch!  She did cry with her shots, but only for a minute until Mommy scooped her up and cuddled her!  She is babbling more and more and she sounds like she is saying "pickle, pickle, pickle"...so cute. 

Avery's One Year Stats:

~weight 20 pounds 6 ounces~36th percentile

~length 31 inches~94th percentile

She is long and skinny.  Her sister was long and chubby.  Avery is almost exactly 3 pounds smaller than Lily was at a year old and about the same length (Lily weighed 23 pounds 3 ounces and 31 1/4 inches).  I am thankful that Jason had taken the day off and was there with me.  I don't know what I would have done with a pooping, puking girl and a screaming baby after getting shots and a tired mommy who had been up since 7:00am the DAY BEFORE.  Jason had been out of town since Wednesday on a hunting trip with his brother's.  I enjoyed my time with my girls, but we all missed daddy terribly!  Each night that he was gone all three of us girls were in bed before 8:30. I looked at the clock on Friday night when I crawled into bed after putting the girls to bed and it read 8:06pm...my how the times have changed!