15month Check-up Report

Ella's emo look. Playing sad is new game. She can't do it for more than a few seconds before she starts laughing.

Self-portrait

Jeff sent this picture to his Grandma who has been in the hospital.

In the bounce house at Brooke's Birthday party.

Ella trying to feed Charlie puffs.

Ella had her 15 month check up last Friday. The stats are: 21.7lbs (32%) and 32in (92%). So she's even more tall and skinny than last time. I think she actually lost a little weight when she was sick the week before last, so hopefully she'll put that back on. The main point of the visit was to check milestones. She did great. She was ahead of the curve on her fine motor skills, gross motor skills and verbal skills. She did not like being there this time though. Jeff said she had a hard time with the visit when she was sick, so maybe she was a little traumatized by that. Dr. Sweet said she did look like she was getting over another upper respiratory infection- she was still pretty gunky and had some fluid in one of her ears, but everything was resolving. She's still coughing, mostly at night now, but it's getting better.

She's saying new words every day. I can't even keep count any more although she only uses a few consistently. She's been very into s sounds lately. I hear "shoe" and "sock" a million times a day. Yesterday, her daddy added a new four-letter s word to her vocabulary.... She's been walking around all day today saying "oh, $h!t". I'm trying to ignore her or say "shoe?" and point to a shoe, but it's really hard not to laugh. Guess it's time to clean it up!