Thursday, August 20, 2009

15 month well check

Jake & Miles just had their 15 month well check this morning and they are doing great. Dr. Norton said that they are awesome (which we already knew)! Their fine motor skills are right on track as well as their speech. She was impressed with everything that they are saying (mama, dada, papa, duck, ball, baby, tractor...) and impressed with the questions they can answer (they can tell you what a snake, duck, cow and lion say...sssssss, quack, mmmmmm, and their version of a roar). She was also impressed with their eating and gave us the go ahead to try peanut butter (for some reason I thought I was supposed to wait until they were older), so that's what they'll be having for lunch. She checked their ears (Miles always seems to have fluid in one ear but it's still not infected), throat, mouths (nice looking teeth - both have ten), eyes, tummies and listened to their strong hearts. The big surprise is that my super big boys are not so super big for their age anymore. They have kind of leveled out a bit. Jake is 25 lbs (50-75%), 32 inches (75%) and Miles is 24.9 lbs (50%), 32 inches (75%). Jake still has a large noggin but she's still not worried about it because the rate of growth is totally normal. In other words, he has always had a large noggin. They each had two shots and that was definitely no fun. We are still on a modified vaccine schedule and that makes for fewer shots at a time but more frequent shots. I have to make a decision about the MMR vaccine and welcome any input that anyone has. I'm leaning towards splitting that into multiple shots...did anyone else do that?

To sum up their appointment, they are rock stars!

2 comments:

Kaija said...

you must be on the same shot schedule as kaija. we do the modified shot schedule too. I decided not to split the mmr. my doctor says the benefits outweigh the negatives and i trust her. but it's everyone's own decision.

Laura said...

Glad to hear they are on track. Isn't those animal sounds they make cute! Would love to meet them in person - they are so cute!