One Year Stats

Noelle had her one year doctor's appointment today. It was a bit late due to vacation and start of the school year physicals for everyone else, but we were happy as always to get a first thing Friday morning appointment with Dr. Burke. Noelle wasn't super happy to get measured or weighed (being still isn't really her forte!) but we came home with measurements of exactly 20 pounds and 30 inches. I am pretty sure that she is a bit taller than that, but who can really tell with the way they try to measure babies! These stats put her in the 75% for height and the 30% for weight. She had been about 50% for weight and 90% for height pretty consistently, but now that she runs around all the time she has really thinned out to the perfect size!

Besides her measurements, we reviewed Noelle's other data at the doctor. She currently has 5 teeth (with several more about to cut through), eats 3 meals a day and about 2 snacks, and drinks water and whole milk. I stopped nursing Noelle just before she turned one and she has been doing great with the switch! She also eats pretty much everything (as long as you give her the veggies before the meat or fruit)! Noelle also can say about 10 words - daddy, mom, banana, doggie, book, go, ok, hi, goodbye, and stop. Yup, we thought we'd tell her stop instead of no so we didn't have an 18 month old screaming no to us in the future. Instead it looks like she is going to say stop, stop and giggle as she does it. Oh well! On the sleeping front, Noelle sleeps each night from about 7:30 until about 7 in the morning. She does usually wake up fussy at some point still but can get herself back to sleep most nights so that is a relief! We are currently having less luck with naps. She did well with naps on vacation probably because she was exhausted from the sun, but since we got back she has been trying to fight her afternoon nap. That would be ok if she would postpone and lengthen the morning nap but so far that one is a no go.

So as you can tell we think our little one is thriving and the doctor seems to agree. We did end the appt with 4 shots which weren't Noelle's favorite part of the visit, but she handled them like a champ and stopped screaming as soon as we left the room. We don't go back to the doctor til she is 18 months and we look forward to seeing what our little one is up to then!