Logan's 9 month checkup and Isabel's little sentences

Logan weighed in at 20lb 1oz and was 28 inches long at his 9 month checkup today. That puts him 50th percentile for each. Yay! Glad his weight is on the charts this time. That's a HUGE gain in 3 months. His head was in the 75th percentile. Not exactly off the charts like Viv or Iz, but still respectable. :) Those stupid growth charts do nothing but cause anxiety in parents. He's doing fine developmentally and physically. The appointment took forever. A combination of the office being backed up, waiting for vaccinations, waiting for a lab tech for a blood test, waiting again for the doctor because Logan is borderline anemic. I'm not worried about this at all, but we'll be adding in those liquid vitamins that babies love so much to his daily routine. Gross. I'm looking forward to when he can eat a gummy vitamin like Isabel. Why do they make the Polyvisol so freaking gross? It's like eating a penny.

Isabel is being cute as ever. She's started really talking in 2 word sentences. She says 'hi mommy' and 'hi daddy' all the time. She's started saying 'big truck,' 'one more truck' and some other cute saying that I've forgotten. She's sort of obsessed with trucks.

Oh yes, how did I forget that Isabel has added 'mine' to her vocabulary. Sigh.

Busted!

Somehow Logan managed to grab the cord to his monitor and pull it out of the wall! Luckily I heard some odd sound (Logan banging the cord on the crib) and went up to check it out before he did anything too crazy. The crib is now about 2 feet from the wall. Silly boy.

Allergies

We finally made it back to the allergist for Isabel's skin test. She was tested for environmental allergens and for eggs and peanuts. She had some sort of reaction to almost everything, but not eggs. Peanuts were the worst. She did such a great job and didn't even cry. She really loves Dr. Kayser and was willing to do anything she asked. Dr. Kayser was surprised at her reactions and said that some allergists don't recommend skin testing on kids under 5 because there usually isn't a reaction. I think the only thing that didn't show a reaction was cockroach. Glad we have that figured out. We marched upstairs to get blood drawn to see if she has a protein reaction to peanuts and other tree nuts. If she doesn't show a reaction on the blood test she MIGHT only have contact reactions and might be able to eat nuts in the future. Unfortunately peanut allergies are only outgrown in 18-25% of cases. Eggs have a 75-85% rate, so it would be better if she were allergic to eggs and not peanuts. Anyway, she was a superstar getting blood drawn even though it took a LONG time because the tech had a hard time getting blood out. She got a sticker and sucker afterward, so she was pretty happy. We hit up Chipotle for lunch, so that made it even better.

The negative skin reaction to eggs was interesting. The only thing we can think of is that the few times she's had egg it was around a dish that had nuts? I know one particularly bad reaction was after eating Thai food. We're going to do the egg food challenge that involves me bringing a scrambled egg to the hospital and them giving it to her over 4-5 hours. No other food is allowed and she can only eat up to 2 hours before the testing begins. That should be a great day.

We really like her allergist, so I feel confident that Isabel is getting very good care. Dr. Kayser gave us a prescription for Allegra, but said if she's not having symptoms that it was ok to fill it and give it to her as needed otherwise she would be on an antihistamine every day with the type of allergies she had. Her skin reactions have been very minimal since we tossed everything in our house that contains nuts. I think maybe the dishes getting washed next to or near a dish with peanut butter was enough to cause a reaction.

I should have waited until the reactions really started happening, but this was a couple of minutes after they finished testing her.



After the blood draw a lollipop and Chipotle makes it all better!

Well hello there!

Logan greeted me Thursday morning by standing up and looking at me through the prison bars slats on his crib. He definitely couldn't figure out how to get back down and looked a bit worried. He likes to pull up on every random thing. He follows me and Isabel around the house but gets tired and stops to cry when he's had enough crawling.

Isabel is going through a little jealous phase and is starting to see through our ploy of 'can you help mommy/daddy get Logan's coat on him?' as a distraction technique. Now she's like 'no, YOU get Logan's coat and put it on him. I'm not your slave.' She has a Valentine's Day party on the 14th and I just spent a small fortune on stamps (yes, I'm now a Stampin' Up customer...don't judge) and other 'necessities' to make cute homemade cards for her class. I have a sinking suspicion that these cards are going to cost about $10 and take 3 hours each to make.