Delaney's one year check-up

Oh how busy the last week has been! Last Tuesday Delaney went in for her one year check-up. This one appointment turned into 3 additional appointments, not to mention a sick little girl! First off her stats:

Height: 30.2 inches (75th percentile)

Weight: 21.7 pounds (50th percentile) This is where the first additional apointment came in. She has fallen from the 75th percentile to now the 50th. Just because of this fall, the doctor wants her to come in for an extra weight check in a month to make sure she isn't continuing to make a fall. If you look at her, she's still a chunky girl though!


Next, we found that she had two ear infections...poor girl. This is where the second additional appointment comes in. We have an appointment in two weeks to check to make sure her ears are better.


Finally we were all ready for her 3 shots. Well, come to find out, the state has changed the policy on this. We don't have coverage for shots so we have always gone through the state, but still with the doctor. Now, unfortunately they cannot give the shots there, I had to go to the county health office to get them. So, I lugged Makenna, Camden and Delaney onto the next appointment where instead of combining it into 3 shots, they gave her 5 shots at once!


Her poor little body did not handle this trauma very well. By the time we got home, she was running a fever of 103 and by nighttime was over 105. Even with Motrin and Tylenol round the clock, we had trouble keeping her at 103. As soon as it would begin to wear off, her fever would spike back to 105. She was this way for the next 3 days. Poor little girl was just not herself. As of Friday she was finally feeling a little better.


Anyway, one somewhat healthy girl. Here are her current interests:


Walking: She can take up to 5 steps, but only when encouraged, she's not walking as her primary mode of transportation yet. Boy is she fast at crawling though!


Food: ALL the food she can get her hands on (no picky eater here). She wants whatever she sees and lets you know.


Babbling: She constantly makes noises that we like to pretend are words, but are just her exploring language. No real words yet but she sure is expressive and cute with her own language. Oh she does hold things up in the air and say "is" for this!


Blocks: She loves stacking and knocking down towers of blocks. Makenna and Camden do not appreciate this one.

Reading: Delaney is now very into books. She likes to have books read to her...for a short period of time. Even more though, she loves looking at her own books. This has been a lifesaver in restruants.