One Year Checkup

I don't have any new pictures to go with this post but I wanted to give you all the update on Chance's one year checkup. And I will give you an old picture from before Christmas, he has such an "ah Mom" look on his face in this one. Well, we took it easy today not doing anything except a little cleaning around the house before Chance's appointment. Chance was very active in the office and wanted to crawl around everywhere. He is 26 pounds 3 ounces and 31 inches tall. Which puts him in the 95 percentile for his age. In other words he is a big baby but he is growing proportionatly for him. Everything checked out just fine and the doctor said he really paid attention to things and made really good eye contact. She said that even though he wasn't saying a lot of words he was communicating which is very important and she could see that he understood a lot of words and that was a big step to him trying to say the words for himself. He got two shots, a PPD test and a finger prick today. He cried a little with the shots and test but then was ok when I picked him up. But with the finger prick they had to get blood to fill two little circles on paper and with the first circle he was ok not even crying but when she started with the second circle he got very angry. It was as if he was saying "look I have been really good here but now you need more blood forget it!" We did get the blood though and he got a bandaid with little soccer balls on it. He looked so sad sitting there both thighs red from shots his arm red from the test and his finger in a bandaid which of course he was holding way out from the other fingers. I picked him up and gave him a big but gentle hug. He got a lead test today too that we should get back in a week or two. We are doing this one because we have lived in old houses since he was born and old houses tend to have lead paint. After his shots the visit was over and we went straight home. Usually Chance just sleeps after a visit with shots but not this time today he jsut started playing and went about the day like nothing happened. His next visit is March 24th for his 15 month checkup where he will get some more shots, poor baby.