2 Year Check Up

      Today we went for Rylee's 24 Month Physical and Check Up. We had to go to the health department since my insurance won't kick in until October, but Rylee didn't mind. She loved playing with this big toy in the lobby. She doesn't need any more shots until she's 4, but they did take some blood to check her iron levels today, which were fine. She was 23.4 lbs and 34.25 inches tall. That puts her in the 10th percentile for weight and the 75th percentile for height. She lost some weight last week because we were so busy, and she doesn't eat well when she's off her routine. I'm sure she'll gain it back soon, and the nurse said it's fine for her weight to fluctuate now that she's out of the infant stage and into the toddler stage of development.

      Rylee still has 18 teeth, but she is teething, working on her last two 2-year molars, and then she will be done with teeth for a long time. She wears size 2T clothes, but I'm buying size 3T shirts for the fall, her torso is long, and she needs bigger tops than bottoms. She wears size 6 shoes. She's in size 2T-3T Easy-Ups. We're being casual about the potty-training thing, but on days that our schedule allows us to be consistent with it, she does very well. Our final goal is to have her completely potty trained by age 3. She will DEFINITELY be trained by then!

     She is so full of life. "Terrible Two's" have hit a little. We've had 2-3 big tantrums per day, but it isn't all that terrible. She gets over them very quickly and goes back to being her cute little self. She is so smart. She knows all of her letters, capital and lowercase. She can count to 10. She knows the shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, oval, star, crescent, cross, hexagon, and octagon. She's learning her colors: she knows green, pink, and red consistently, and she's learning the others very quickly. She has a wonderful vocabulary. She picks up on new words and phrases every day. She sometimes speaks in complex 8-10 word sentences. She's slow to warm up to unfamilar situations, but once she warms up, she can be quite rambunctious. She is definitely one of a kind, and I'm so glad to be her mommy.