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Raise your hand if you knew that you saw the pediatrician at 15 months for a well baby check. 

My hand would not have been raised for that one.  So we saw her at almost 17 months for a hybrid 15/18 month check (I’m not-so-secretly thrilled to have skipped out on a well baby check—I do not love spending an hour at the doctor’s office—seriously.  60 minutes—45 of that was waiting around.) 

She’s certainly attempting to catch up to her brother as the tall kid in the classroom!

Height: 96th percentile (the highest she’s ever been—usually she hovers around the 90th percentile)

Weight:  19th percentile (woot!  That’s the highest she’s been since her 8 day checkup.)

Head:  92nd percentile.  (I’m hoping it’s the brains rattling around in there.)

Ellie is squirming on my lap trying to get to the mouse. All arms and legs and twisting and irritating.
Me: Excuse me, Miss. Can I help you with something?
Ellie, stops wiggling, looks and me and says: Yeah.

Ellie began signing and saying ‘outside’ this week.  Every day the ‘outside’ becomes clearer and better (in the beginning I could only get it because she was also signing it [badly, it’s a hard sign, but a poorly signed sign and a poorly pronounced word together create understanding).  It’s an important word for her because she LOVES to go outside.  It’s miserably windy right now, but there she is, in her sandbox, all alone while I stand here folding laundry and watching her.  She has always loved to be outside!

Her ‘word’ roundup right now:

hi

hello

bye

numma numma

eat eat

daddy

mommy

kitty

doggy

outside

woah

yeah

uh-oh (something fell)

uh-oh-eeee (her pacifier)

She also signs:

milk

eat

mom

dad

outside

help

potty

hat

brush teeth

signing time

all done

car

more

bath

She puts “hi” together with other words like “hi daddy” “hi kitty” and this week she started putting signs together like “more food” saying “eat eat” while signing “more” and “eat.”  It’s amazing to watch the words come together into phrases!

Had a really rough night with Ellie so I had a 5 hour energy this morning on an empty stomach and without thinking carried on to have my normal cup of tea.  5 hour energy + tea + empty stomach = no good apparently.  I feel like I’m going to throw up, pass  out, die of anxiety, or spin around like a top and shoot off into the atmsophere like a rocket.  Being a zombie would have been better than this.