Miles' 1 year Well Baby Appt

All of Miles' bandaids from his Drs appt.

And yet that smile remains on his face...what a sweetie pie!

Miles' 1 year well baby appointment went well.  He is still a skinny, peanut headed, long boy.  LOL!

Weight:  19pds (6th percentile...omg!)
Height:  30.8"  (86th percentile...big boy!)
HC:  17.5 (8th percentile...giggle giggle)

Dr. H says he looks great and he's developing just as he should be!

Poor little guy had to have 3 shots AND they had to draw blood to ensure that his hep B shots took...and it took 3 attempts.  Ugh.  It was horrible.  I was so close to going into my Angry Asian mode by the time they were done because each time they'd stick him...they'd move the needle around so much to try to find blood.  It's almost like they just stick it in and go fishing.  Rediculous.  The same thing happened with Max, but they got it in the 2nd try with him.  Poor Miles just hollared...and it was so hard for me because he cries so rarely.  I had to help hold him down and I just kissed him and tried to comfort him the best I could and he just looked up at me with those big beautiful eyes all full of tears.  Tore my heart out!  Naturally he's got bruises in both arms from all that pin poking action, but he doesn't seem bothered at all today.  I gave him tylenol yesterday as I'm sure his little arms were tender.

What a little peanut we have though!  He's still a pound under the requirement to switch him to forward facing in his carseat by law.  Goodness.  I told him he needs to get up on the food, so we can switch him like his big bro!  I switched him to whole milk as soon as he hit 1 year and he's doing ok with it.  He prefers it room temperature still, so I started nuking it for a tiny bit....but he's doing pretty good with it in his sippy cups.  Usually he chucks the sippy after a sip when it's right out of the fridge, but after awhile he gulps it right down.

Other than that...he just seems to grow daily with new things.  He isn't saying too many words yet.  He says, "Mama" (naturally! and he knows what it means) and he says "eye" (which is is hi and bye...and he waves) and he'll sometimes try to mimick what your saying.  Usually more by the notation in your voice than the actual word.  He's getting really good at copying what we are doing though.  He loves to giggle....it's so adorable!  It's amazing to see the personalities that emerge from your children.  Every day is new and exciting!