Maddox's '15' month check up

On Thursday we went to see Dr. Anderson for Maddox's 15month check up, a little late. We are always a little behind on her check ups ( just how the scheduling has gone from her first 2 week check up). But, Eric and I had to postpone it even more when we ended up being out of town visiting family when her original appointment was. Oh well. It doesn't hurt. She passed everything with flying colors. She is up to 21 pounds and is 31 inches long. She is still chuggin' right along in the 25th percentile for weight ( where she has been since she was born) and about the 50th percentile for height, maybe actually a little above average but Dr. Anderson didn't give us a specific percentile. He was happy with how she looked, checked her ears given our recent double ear infection, checked her teeth ( all 4 of them) watched her walk and gave her 3 shots! OUCH. Her ears looked good and he wasn't worried that she still only has 4 teeth, in fact he thought the gums where her molars are going to come in were looking a little swollen and he thought maybe she'd get those before her regular teeth??? which he thought was fine. So we go back in April for her 18month check up and if all goes well we won't return to the Dr office for any other sicknesses before then :) We have been relaxin' a bit this weekend. Maddox has been in a great mood, laughing, carryin' on, wrestlin' with dad. She is REALLY good at knowing exactly what we are saying. She knows a ton of body parts and can point to them on herself now.....eyes nose ear hair head mouth tongue teeth feet hand arm tummy belly button. We are working on elbow and knee. She isn't able to say many of them....but we are working on that a lot too. She is really good about repeating what we ask her to sayalthough it isn't always exactly like the word, but close. She is really good at saying Mama and Dada. Her 'P' sound is more like blowing raspberries except for in 'UP'. She CAN say UP pretty good. We ask her to say PIZZA and she has the 'ZA' part down really well but needs work on the PI part. You can tell when she watches you she really wants to say the word so I know she is trying. Dr. Anderson didn't even mention anything about her speech and said she shouldn't need to be saying words right now as long as she is chattering away which she is. But, the overachiever in me wants her to be able to communicate more. She is really good at signing but still the same things as in the past milk, grape, more, cookie. However even her coordination to do those 4 is much better now with her hand. She didn't used to do cookie quite right but I knew what she wanted. Now she has it spot on. She is really fun at this age. We haven't been in the picture mood lately after all the pics from Christmas but I'll try to get one for you later today. We wore her suede cowgirl boots to the mall yesterday that I had posted about on the last blog. She is getting good now at walking in them. So CUTE! PS>......there is talk of going to get her hair cut this week!!! Stay tuned. It is getting so long. I swear it grows everytime I talk about getting it cut! Luckily she doesn't seem to mind it in her face all the time.