Today Katie went in for her 12 month well-check and it went well. She got up at 7 on the dot again-it is like the 5th time in the past 6 days she has gotten up right at 7...I don't mind-it is actually a decent time, considering she could be getting up at 5 or 6am. Yesterday she got up at 8:30-lucky mommy and daddy got to sleep in. I got ready real quick and then got her up and threw her in the bath-which of course she did not want to get out of. She her clean and was in the car by 8:10am for her appointment at 8:30am. I am getting better at being on time...although I did have to grab her milk and a banana for breakfast-lol. She did not mind-actually now that I think about it-she did get up at 5:15am and had a bottle, so I was not too concerned that she would be starving. We got there and checked in and then was off to see Nurse Anna. She told me to strip her down and we were off to the scale to measure and weigh. She weighed in a whopping (not really) 23.8lbs which is the 85% for her age and she was 31.5" long 97% for her age. Still on the top 15% of the charts. I guess she is still growing.

Dr Brian then came in (oh boy-someone was soooo shy and could not even look at him-hee hee-I tell you she has a mad crush on him) and went over all her stats and all-he said that she is doing really, really well. He was amazed at her vocabulary and her physical ability. I think he thought I was joking when I said that she has AT LEAST a 25 word vocabulary. I guess I am just used to her talking and saying all sorts of things. Things that I have no idea how she knows what it is....for example, tonight, we were playing with a toy and it had a "bee" on it. I never even noticed the bee before, but she pointed right at it and said "bee"...hmmmm. Maybe daddy is working with her too. strange, huh?

Here are some of her words: bee, book, bubble, ball, apple, dog, mama, dada, up, all done, El-mo-mo (elmo), more, no, bike, birdie, clock, gram-ma, papa, nose, eye, shoe, toes....there are more, but I can't even think....

She had 3 shots, the first was in her leg-no problem. The second was in her left arm...Ahhh and the third was in her right arm...BBBAAAAAHHHHHH! That was it, she lost it and screamed her head off. I think she would have gotten over it faster if they did not put the pee-pee bag on her to check her kidneys. That was horrible and completely wrong to do to a 1 year old....made taking her band-aids off a piece of cake.

After we were done, I ran back home and met my sister who was going to watch Katie-who of course did not make it home before she was taking her nap...but she woke up right as I opened.closed the garage door so Melanie was able to play with her...ha ha. I had to go to the Podiatrist to get another Cortisone shot in my ankle...ouch-but it is so much better now! That stuff is magic I tell ya.

After I got home, Matt and I went to get some groceries and then it was back home to pack up all her baby stuff. This included clothes, all my pumping stuff, her old bottles, boppy, swing, mini-gyms and a ton of other stuff that she may have used when she was a baby-made me want to cry...I miss my little baby.

I will admit, it was SOOOO nice to get rid of all the clutter that was just taking up space and needed to be put away.

I am really tired so I am going to call it a night and go night-night (that is another word she LOVES to say- until she realized what it means....lol).

Here is a picture Nicholas took of Katie and I-hee hee.