Hannah's 2.5 Year Update

The pediatrician's office recently started doing a 2.5 year well-child visit. Hannah was actually the first one to be scheduled at our office since the recommendation came out from the AAP a few days before her 2 year well child visit. So today, we went for her 2.5 year check-up. Grammy got Hannah a book a few months ago called Baby Bop Goes To The Doctor and Hannah has been asking to read it a lot. She was very excited to do all the big girl things Baby Bop did. She stood on the scale, got measured, let the doctor look in her eyes and ears, and didn't move as the doctor listened to her heartbeat. She even said "Ahhh" when the doctor asked. She did of course insist that the doctor do all these things to her doll as well so dolly also got a good check-up.

Now come all the numbers/percentages for all the family reading. Hannah is still off the charts for height at 39.5 inches. She is in the 50th-75th percentile for weight at 30lbs. She met all the standards for a 2.5 year old and impressed the doctor with her speech. The doctor said that people must think she's 3 or 4 based on her height and how well she speaks but must also be confused by her baby face and baby whispy hair. I had to laugh (and agree). We got the clean bill of health and Hannah even took her flu shot like a champ. I told her as soon as the nurse was done, she could have a sucker. The nurse stuck her and she looked like she was going to cry for about a half second and then asked "can I have a red sucker?". All the way home, she kept saying "Mommy I'm a good patient". No arguements here!

It's A ...

BABY!!! You thought I was going to annoucne the gender, didn't you? (insert evil laugh here) Actually, I would love to announce the gender to everyone but I don't know the gender. Rob and I made a deal when I was pregnant with Hannah - he really wanted to wait until the delivery room and I really wanted to know early so our deal was that we would find out early with our first (since that is when you have your baby shower) and not with our second. And he remembered. Dang. Still, I went into the ultrasound with high expectations that I might be able to steal a glance if I really paid attention but no such luck. Try as I might, baby was just too wiggly and I just couldn't get a good enough look. I thought I saw the three lines that indicates a girl and the tech stopped there to point out baby's kidneys and bladder. Then I thought I saw something else that might indicate a boy and it turns out that was where the umbilical cord went into the belly. LOL guess I'm bad at reading ultrasounds. So, yay for team green and bring on the delivery room surprise! Of course most importantly, baby looked great, he/she was measuring well with a nice strong heartbeat, and it was so neat to see him/her moving around, kicking, waving, etc.

By the way, as of today, I am officially half way done! Our laptop is broken (the part is coming next week) so a 20 week picture of me and a few ultrasound pictures are on their way soon!

Kids Say The Darndest Things

Hannah started asking "where is our house?" while we were out driving a while ago and rather than listen to that question over and over again, I made it into a game. When she asks that, I say "is that our house?" and then point to whatever random building we are near, which always gets me a laugh and "nooooooo" from her. She has recently began turning it around and randomly pointing and asking "is that our house?" while I'm driving and I reply back to her "noooo" and the game continues.

Fast forward to today in Target. Rob was with us since he had the day off. Hannah and I are walking out of the bathroom (yay potty training!) and Hannah asks "where is Daddy?". I say "I don't know, we have to find him" so she pointed to the security guard and said "is that my Daddy?" Luckily I managed to choke back my laugh so that she wouldn't continue saying it and he didn't hear. Could you imagine if you were a guy in your late teens/early 20s and a little girl came up to you with her Mommy (who you'd never seen before) a few steps behind and asked "Mommy is that my Daddy?" Ha!

Maybe it's time for a new game...