Doctors Visits and Adorable Children

I spent the last two days visiting with doctors, so I thought I would share the update on our kids.

Yesterday was Amelia’s 15 month checkup.  Here are her stats:

Weight: 20 lb. 8 oz.- 39th percentile
Height: 30 inches- 30th percentile
Head Circumference: 18 1/4 inches- 70th percentile
Cuteness: Off the charts

Amelia is finally growing some hair which is very exciting, but now we have the new problem of trying to figure out how to make it look a little bit less like bed head all the time.  For some reason the hair on the back of her head is always a little gnarly.  Luckily, it doesn’t seem to lessen her undeniable charm!

Amelia is just starting to communicate a little more.  She says just a few words- “Dada” is her favorite, and it is her fallback word.  She says it to be funny when we ask her to say a word and she doesn’t want to cooperate.  I enjoy seeing that funny little part of her personality starting to come out! 

Amelia can also say “Uh Oh,” “Hi,” “Ball,” “Ow,” and at least a couple of others that aren’t coming to me at the moment.  One of her favorite ways of communicating is to shake her head.  I think at this point she isn’t totally sure of what it means, but knows it answers a question.  Most of the time when she shakes her head she is actually trying to say “yes,” which I find especially entertaining.  She is so much fun to have around!

Today Adam had an appointment at The Children’s Hospital to discuss the pathology of the mole he just had removed.  It turned out to be a somewhat rare and confusing Pigmented Epithelioid Melanocytoma or Epithelioid Blue Nevus.  For some unknown reason, we had six doctors/interns/I don’t know who they all were who came to meet with us and tell us that the consensus is that it is benign and not something to worry about unless his lymph nodes start to swell, in which case it might not be benign and we’ll worry about it then.  In other words, it seems like they aren’t really sure, but we are happy to leave it at that for now and I figure that not worrying about it is always a good course of action if we can pull it off!

Dr. Delyeyiannis also said his scar should start to look a lot better within about 6 months.  Now if he could just tell us how to keep Adam’s face clean as well, I think we would be in great shape!