Maddox's 18 Month Checkup

Maddox and I went to Dr. Anderson's office on Monday for her 18 month checkup. She was very good and loved trotting up and down the hallway looking at all the paintings and pictures in his office. She is up to 23lbs and is 33 1/4 inches long. Still hanging out at the 25th percentile for weight but she jumped up to the 75th percentile for height. I could have sworn she weighed more like 30lbs. She seems SOOOO heavy lately, but it must be the extra weight I'm carrying with baby Kies. I was actually shocked she wasn't closer to 25lbs....I guess we get to stop for more ice cream Maddox :) He was happy with how she looked and said keep on with the prunes and the vitamins we give her. We can switch her off of whole milk when she turns 2 to...well I"m not sure what kind of milk, I didn't ask. We'll have to call when we get closer. He said we could try prune juice instead of prunes and see how those work to keep her poo poo soft! He definitely doesn't want it hard. I asked about the fact that her teeth are coming in sort of NOT in the right order and he wasn't too concerned. He thinks that as she gets more of the canines and molars those little ones in front that are still missing on the bottom will come in. And he said if they're not there by the time we come for her 2 year check up he'll have us go to the dentist for an x ray to make sure her permanent teeth are down in her gums.....he said she just might not have baby teeth but unlikely and he didn't seem concerned at all indicating they'd probably be up by the time we returned in September. She is getting really smart!! I can't even keep track of how many words she can saw and/or knows. She'll say something completely out of the blue sometimes that I haven't even been coaching her on...like GLASSES. She woke up Sunday AM and literally the first thing she said to me, while pointing her little finger right onto the lens, was GLASSES. It was so funny. I had no idea she even knew that word! Her coordination is getting better too. She still trots with her arms out to steady herself, which Dr. Anderson said was ok for 19 months. But, today we went to this park we had gone to about 3 weeks ago and she needed my hand to step up onto the playground platform but today she could do it totally solo. AND SHE KNEW IT because actually stepping up and down this little step was her favorite thing to do the entire time we were there...not necessarily playing on the playground equipment itself. Funny girl. She is just starting to say 2 word phrases but they are very basic such as HI MAMA. She loves saying HI to anyone and everyone who will listen and given BUMPS to anyone and everyone who will take them. She is a little social butterfly. She made friends with a large family at a rest stop on our way home from St. Louis on Sunday. She was bumping and saying hi to them repeatedly....they thought is was funny. WE need to work on her using her spoon more and we need to get her coloring and or starting to think about holding pencil/crayon etc. This weekend is the big weekend to do the bed switch. Not sure how that is going to go but we'll see! Enjoy the park pictures.