BUH.

From Chris, emailed to me while I was at work:

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Anna just brought her "Who Loves Baby" over to me (the one with the pictures of all of us in it) saying, "Mama." So we looked through all of the pictures and said who each person was.

When we got to Blaire, I said, "Who's that?" and she thought for a second and said, "Buh," then sort of smiled and rubbed her hands under her chin.

A little later we were going back through the book and we came to Blaire again. I said, "Who's this?" and she said "Buh" again. I said "Buh" myself, and she looked at me, quite indignantly, and said, more emphatically this time, "BUH." I replied, "Oh, BLAIRE," demonstrating that I now understood, and she was satisfied.

:-)

One-Year Checkup

First things first - This is a companion to my Twitter account (twitter.com/annajogrows). As such I don't intend to use this blog a ton, just on occasion when getting my message across would require, like, a dozen tweets.

Anna's One-Year Checkup

Overall she is just fine, the picture of health and is developing just fine. Way ahead of the curve on talking, but we knew that already. [sinful pride!] She's also right on time for walking. The only thing we are not doing a good job about is dental care - we haven't been taking good care of her teeth, although her teeth are showing no ill effects so far. We will get right on that!!

One thing that was... well, more unexpected (for us) than bad was the fact that she hasn't really gained any weight in the past three months. The doctor was not at all worried about this though - he said it's typical for this to happen when babies get more active, and that has definitely happened these past three months. Plus, he speculates that she's in between growth spurts. As she has been on this eat a ton/sleep a ton tear lately we think she's probably starting one now, so no worries. They will check her again at 15 months just to be sure.

The vaccinations? TRAUMA. There were four of them this time and thank God, she will never have this many at once again. One in each arm, one in each leg. I have never heard her cry like that. In the past, nursing her has always done the trick and calmed her down, but not this time. You know what calmed her down? She pointed towards the door... she calmed down as we got closer. Then she reached down and tried to turn the doorknob. It was her way of saying "get me the heck out of here!" She cried when I took her back to the table to get dressed but calmed down again when we left.

She got 2 kitty stickers as a reward from the doctor's office. When she and Chris got back home, she got to sit on Dada's lap and watch Elmo videos on SesameStreet.com.

I hope she's feeling alright tonight and doesn't have that fever/irritability that sometimes happens after vaccinations. An elderly woman at our church suffered a minor stroke and is in the hospital. She loves - ADORES - Anna and I know it would boost her spirits to see her. I just hope Anna is up to a visit!

All for now... if there's more news I'll post to Twitter. Love to all!