Weighing In At...

We finally had his one year appointment today. Reeves weighs in at 20 pounds, 13 ounces and 31 1/2 inches long, 20th and 90th percentiles respectively. I was guessing he weighed at least 22 pounds (35 after holding him for 20 minutes), but it looks like we have just barely made it to the "turning the seat around" weight. Good thing, since I had that thing flipped the morning of his birthday! Everything is going great with him. She was impressed with the moisture in his skin - something we are very cogniscent of given his atopic dermatitis. He is pretty much solely on finger food.

He takes two bottles a day - soy milk, not formula. She said to try to ween this down to one. Shouldn't be too hard as he wanted nothing to do with his bottle tonight. She wants us to work on making the paci a bedtime, naptime thing only. This is going to be hard! He loves that thing. Any suggestions would be welcome. Normally, this appointment requires three vaccinations, however, due to Reeves' egg allergy, the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) will be given to him at his allergist's appointment which I will make tomorrow for sometime in the end of August. So he got away today with only having his Chicken Pox and Hepatitis A shots. He also had to have blood drawn from his finger. They needed a good bit of blood, and amazingly, he didn't cry through any of it, the pricking or the squeezing. The shots, a different story. he screamed. I don't know, maybe I'm callous or maybe we've hardened ourselves to it after all the testing and IV'ing we had to do when he was little, little, but my heart doesn't break when he gets his shots. I hate to see him cry like that, but it never brings tears to my eyes. And he recovers so quickly. Just a quick scoop up and hug from Mama, and he's OK. He's such a trooper. So, that's where we stand healthwise with the BooBoo. All's well. Now, if we can just get him to control that temper....