"ONE" WELL BABY

James had his 12-month well-baby exam this morning.

He finished out his first year right around average:

Weight = 21 lbs 10 oz

Length = 30.25 in

Head Circumference = 47 cm

That's a gain of 13.6 lbs and 9.5 in! Such a big boy now:

We're still going to call him our little munchkin though... and don't mind his crazy left baby footprint - they couldn't get him to hold still (imagine that)!

In other appointment news, he passed all his milestone tests (saying 3 or more words, pulling up, and cruising - he doesn't HAVE to walk until 15-months, but we'll see, we doubt it will be much longer before he does), cried about his shots for the first time (maybe Mommy holding him didn't help... I know I always get more emotional around my mom) - of which he received only 2 (we're still splitting them up, so he'll get the rest at his 15-month and 18-month well-baby exams), had his finger pricked for another anemia test (results forthcoming, but he passed at 6-months, so we're not worried) which REALLY made him mad this time (not the finger prick itself - that he basically ignored - it was the fact that the phlebotomist wouldn't give him back his hand that made him so angry, and sad, even though it wasn't his thumb-sucking hand she stole), was diagnosed with a very mild case of thrush (it just showed up this morning, and is due to the antibiotics he was on through early last week for that ear infection - luckily, I'm not likely to get it, since this morning was our first non-nursing morning, meaning that James is basically weaned, though we'll see how the weekend goes), was told that his eczema would be an intermittent thing for a while (and to just treat with hydrocortisone as needed), and cried about both the nurse AND his pediatrician examining him (apparently the stranger-anxiety phase lasts up until 15-months for most kids, and he was NOT happy that Mommy and Daddy kept putting him down on that exam table)! Or the scale:

Crying or not, he still got a great report and the doc was quite pleased with him and the cheeser grin he was willing to give her as long as we were holding him. She said "Wow, big smiles. I can count those teeth from here!" She also said he has a mouthful of teeth for his age... Makes me wonder what our nephew's pediatrician will tell HIM (he has 11 right now, including 2 molars, with 2 more molars on the way and less than a month to go until his 1st birthday)! Luckily, we got in and out of the pediatrician's office in less than an hour and a half this time. That's so acceptable that we made sure to book his next well-baby exam for first thing on a Friday!