12 month stats

Ella's trip to the dr. was this morning. It was a LONG appointment. We were there for 2 hours! Jeez.... She now weighs 21 pounds, 13 ounces (75th percentile) and is 31 inches long/tall (97% percentile). That was the easy part. We met with the dr., which went better than our last visit. Ella is starting to get over her stranger anxiety I think, but she was still a little scared. The dr. is still concerned about her neck/head. She wants us to visit with a physical therapist to look at her neck muscles. Ella has a tendancy to hold her head to the side. The dr. isn't sure if it's due to the neck muscles or if it's an eye issue. She also wants us to meet with a pediatric eye dr. I guess we'll see....not too excited about these. Then came the dreaded shots. On top of those, Ella had to have her blood drawn (boo) because of those lovely chicken pox. They took her blood to confirm she now has the immunity to the chicken pox. We'll get the results in about a week. Hopefully she has the full immunity. If not, then Ella will have to go back and get the vaccine (yuck!). To make matters more difficult, Ella appears to be a bit dehydrated today. She's not having many wet diapers so far today, and she woke up this morning with a completely dry diaper (unusual). When they finally found Ella's little vein for her blood draw (oh man, that was NOT fun) Ella's blood just dripped ever so slowly, so it took longer than any of us wanted it to take. :( Hopefully some Pedialyte and maybe some watermelon at lunch will help.

So, that's that. Enjoy the weekend.