Three Year Well-Child Check-Up

Today Rainah went in for her yearly well-child exam.  The appointment went great, and everything is good with her.  She had to get a flu shot, but other than that, no other pokes.  The nurse who gave it to her felt so bad when Rainah started crying and saying, "that hurts".  I held her for a few seconds, then put her down and the nurse asked her if she was ok.  Rainah replied, "I'm ok", with her little bottom lip quivering.  Then the nurse asked if she could give her five and Rainah got a big smile on her face and gave the nurse a high five.
Rainah weighed in at 35.2 pounds and was 38.25 inches tall.

2 Year Well-Child Appointment

This morning we took Rainah for her 2 year well child visit with the amazing Dr. Bultje.  It was pretty quick and easy, and she weighed in at 30.4 pounds and measured 35 inches tall.  She only had to get one shot and she took it like a trooper- now she's all done with those until school.  Dr. B said she is looking great and her next well child won't need to be until she's 3.  

I was only able to get a couple shots, but here they are:

18 Month Stats

Today we took Rainah to her 18 month doctor appointment. When the nurse called us in she commented, "Oh, Rainah's gone blonde!". Everyone is commenting on how light her hair has gotten. I'm not sure if it's the sun or if it's just changing.
She didn't need any shots, so that was a good thing! The nurse weighed her on the baby scale and it showed 23 pounds. Later I put her on the standing scale and 3 times it came to 25.4 pounds, so I'm calling it that! Her height came to 33 inches, which puts her in the 90th percentile in height. We didn't get to see our regular doctor, but were told that everything looks great with her. She won't go back for another well visit until she is two and she'll have to get another shot then. Otherwise, they recommend she get a flu shot in October.
Here are the few photos I got:








And to compare her to one year ago...

Swim Lessons, Doctor's Appointments, Baths, and a Big Fat Lip

Rainah had quite a day today! It started out with our first swimming lesson; I thought we'd try it out and see how she did with it. She LOVES her baths, and seemed to really the pool we played in last summer in Arizona. It's just a 30 minute class for 6 weeks. We got there a little early and there was another class going on so we watched for a little while. Then we got in... and as soon as I got to the bottom step, she started screaming. And she cried and cried and cried. And clung to me like she's never clung before. The arms around my neck and legs wrapped around my waist. She went under a few times, which made her even less happy. So we'll see how this goes. :) Unfortunately since I was in the pool, there are no photographs from this class; hopefully Don will be able to come watch a class or two and get some shots. They'd just be of her crying, anyway.

So when that was over, we went and had a quick girls' lunch at Chilis since her doctors appointment was at 12:45 and there was no point in going all the way home. Her appointment went well and everything looks and sounds good. She weighed in at 23.8 pounds and 31 inches tall (which I think was off by an inch or two- Don and I measured her later and came up with between 29-30 inches). We thought we were gonna have an easy appointment with no shots, but she ended up having to get two. Don left for that part. She just cried for a minute, though, and was running up and down the hall a few minutes later.


In the waiting room


Kisses from Rainah :)








Rainah is SOOOO big

She crashed in the car and I put her down for her nap when we got home. Did our usual thing, had dinner, then it was bath time.








Look at that TANK!!!!





As we were walking down the hall getting ready to come downstairs, I didn't realize that she was right on my right side and I ran into her, sending her falling right into the corner of her doorway. She started screaming and I picked her up to see blood coming out of her mouth. I cleaned it up and she calmed down pretty quickly considering, but her top lip just continued to swell up through the evening. I feel sooo horrible.







So as I was soothing her, of course she wanted to read. She has 2 sets of little alphabet books; one for each letter. She pulled some out and the one on top was the letter "N". She stood up and came over to me and pointed at my necklace. Now, the other set that she didn't have out, does have a cartoon picture of a necklace for the letter "N". This one didn't, but she didn't even open it up. I couldn't believe it. Then we get to the letter "S" and one of the pictures is a snowman. She gets up and starts walking into the kitchen, so I figured she was done reading, but then I saw her standing at the kitchen table pointing to her place. Then I realized, she has a placemat with snowmen on it. CRAZY!!
Oh, and she also said, "Mama" a bunch of times tonight. She's never even tried to say it. Not sure if she knew what she was saying, but I'd like to think she did. Maybe that knock in the head made her a genius.

12 Month Stats (better late than never!)

Rainah's 12 month appointment was originally back at the beginning of the month, but our doctor called in sick (can they DO that????). So we were rescheduled to today... Rainah weighed in at 19 pounds, 10 ounces and 29.5 inches. That's a lotta growin in 12 months! She started out at just 7 pounds 2 ounces and 20.5 inches long. Doctor said she looks great! She had to get 5 shots today :( but she was a trooper and only cried until I picked her up. After that she was fine and walked out of the office all on her own!




And this isn't even the part that hurts!!


Just a comparison


Whatever keeps 'em quiet and happy while waiting!