15 months

actually parker turns 16 months next week

but since he went to the doc yesterday

 for his 15mon well baby visit

i'll talk about him like a 15mon old...mkay?

STATS: 19lbs 8oz (below 5th perc. even father below than at 12mon)

                        29inches long (which means he grew HALF an inch in 3 months.

pretty sure his nurses suck at measuring 

because some of his clothes are actually getting smaller)

we finally put away his 9 month onsies.

still wearing all 12month clothes.

and i forget how big his head was,

but it was around the 30th percentile.

new things he does that we think are cute:

pants like a puppy

says BAA for a sheep

grunts like a pig

plays in the toilet (not so cute)

will dance and sing if you tell him to

blows kisses

body parts he can point out:

hair

belly button

feet

hands

tongue

and sometimes mixes up his eyes and nose.

new words:

papa

pizza

bubble

ball

whoa!

he says the uh part in uh-oh

bye bye

and LOTS of babbling nonsense that i think is cussing me out.

and now onto business.

of course my first concern to his doc is,

he's still not walking!

and since i whined and complained enough

and told him how much it bothers me

he agreed to look into it.

first, we had to get bloodwork done

this tests to see

if parker has any kind of muscular disorder.

can we say traumatic?!

i thought i was going to pop his elbow backwards

i was holding it so tight.

and after he already got THREE shots in his legs that morning!

talk about a no good very bad day.

he also refered us to a PT/OT

so pj will see a pediatric physical therapist next friday.

i'm not sure what to expect there 

so i'm going to just go in with an open mind and see what advice,

exercises or tips they have.

from the pediatrician's experience,

sometimes physical therapy helps

and sometimes it doesn't

and the child probably would have learned to do it on their own.

but no matter what, it isn't going to hurt anything.

and i am all for doing anything and everything

that will help my little peanut succeed.

and lastly we're getting him evaluated with first steps.

that evaluation will take place next monday.

i'm excited and nervous at the same time.

someone will come to our house

and watch parker 'perform'

and decide whether or not he qualifies.

in order to qualify he has to have the gross motor skills 

of a baby at or below half of his age,

meaning an 8 month old.

i never thought i'd be going through this with my kid

but that's how parenting goes!

 we are rolling with the punches over here at the pracht house.

and enjoying our days with a non-walking toddler

while i'm still faster than him!

p.s. i failed and forgot to take a pic of him

at the apt.

the fact that he howled literally the entire time

reaching with all his might for the door to leave

may or may not have been the cause of this.

carpe diem

SEP