One year checkup

Hot on the heels of learning that Ryan is going to be a Duck soon (the rooms at daycare are named after animals, and that’s one of the toddlers’ divisions,) it was time to take Ryan to his favorite place: the pediatrician’s! Though he normally cries on contact with the examining room, he was in a pretty jolly mood for the doctor. He weighs a respectable 23 and a half pounds and is 31 and a half inches tall, and got a clean bill of health except for some fluid in his ear.

He had to have four more immunizations, including the measles/mumps/rubella shot. I was a little nervous about that one since I’d heard that some kids have bad reactions to it, like fevers and rashes. But Ryan, being a tough guy, took the four jabs to his legs like a pro and stopped crying as soon as I picked him up. It’s been two days since he got them and he seems fine. More shots in another three months.

Our pediatrician, like our daycare’s staff, is pushing us to ditch Ryan’s bottles and packaged baby food. We’re supposed to be offering him nothing but sippy cups and table food at this point. But we’re bucking the system and trying to ease him into the transition. We think it’s a conspiracy to make our baby grow up!