Wyatt and Aubrey had their checkups this week.
The appointments went better that we thought. Aubrey was good with the doctor listening to her heart and lungs, checking her eyes, and even let him check her ears. We got the Dr. to get the "bugs" out of Aubrey's ears. She had been telling us for about a week that she had "bugs" in her ears and he checked our her boo-boo on her finger. She hasn't mentioned either one of them since. He is a miracle worker. She even got her flu mist and didn't complain. She wasn't thrilled about the shots but when she got stickers and a dum dum everything was alright.
Wyatt checked out good. No bugs in his ears. He wasn't thrilled about the shots but he recovered quickly.
Here is the tale of the tape.
Aubrey
Height: 35.5" (+2.5" from 18 month checkup) - 90th percentile
Weight: 32lbs (+3.5lbs from 18 month checkup) - 95 percentile
She's healthy.
They don't measure her head anymore. I don't know why they just don't. I guess they just eyeball it...looks about the right size.
Wyatt
Length: 27.25" (+1.75" from 4 month appointment) - 75th percentile
Weight: 18lb 8oz (+6lb 2oz from 4 month appointment) - 50 percentile
Head: 17.25 (+.75" from 4 month appointment) - 50 percentile
For some reason, I can't find Aubrey's stats at 6 months.
I know what your thinking...it is the same thing we were thinking. He is only in the 50th percentile for weight and 75 for height. How big is a 90/95th percentile child? Let's be honest, you are really thinking - holy crap, he put on 6lbs 2oz in 2 months. When they weighed him and told us how much, LA and I looked at each other and were like wow, that's 6lbs in two months - almost a pound per week. Wyatt response was "Dont' judge me. I like to eat!". He became a little chunk almost overnight...it is all about formula vs mommy's milk. The formula will put the weight on.
Wyatt is getting busy in a hurry. He is already very grabby and into anything he can get his hands on, even Aubrey and her toys..."Wyatt is touching me", "Wyatt, that's mine". He is also almost crawling. He can get up on his hand and knees and get around. I guess it is not officially crawling but it is more than army crawling. We thought he was going to be the calm one but he is starting at about the same age when Aubrey started getting busy...everyone in the Ulmer family and Carter family has told us that child 2 was busier than child 1...God help us if that is the case for us, keep on praying for us.
Update
I had lunch with my fellow home remodeler, Danny and we were discussing Wyatt's impressive weight gain and I began to tell him that Wyatt had been demolishing his bottles the past couple of nights in record time and I attributed it to him just being hungry but as I was talking to Danny about this, I paused and the light went on - the reason he was demolishing the bottles - I told Danny "it's the nipples" and he replied "that's too much information" and I told him LA had changed the nipples on his bottles to number 3's to which Danny stared at me not fully understanding what I had told him and said "What are you talking about? You mean he's got the bottles with the vortex nipples." - that's funny. I busted out laughing and I said "Yep, now you understand". That would be a great product for a baby...if it makes Miller Lite taste better, what could it do for milk? Danny and I are going to be rich. You heard it hear first - VORTEX BABY BOTTLES in stores in early 2011. Tell all your friends.
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