Two Year checkup

Evie has her two year checkup yesterday.  She did awesome!   She was so good the whole time.  She did exactly what the nurses asked – took off her shoes, stepped up on the scale, stood against the wall to be measured.  They took blood from her toe and she didn’t even flinch.  She was actually really fascinated watching the nurse squeeze the blood from her toe (they had to get little samples on a piece of paper to test her hemoglobin and for lead).  She weights 28lbs (around the 80th percentile) and is 33 inches tall (around the 60th percentile).  She had an eye exam that she passed with flying colors.  She’s got 16 teeth and the only ones expected to come in are the 2 year molars (yippee – can’t wait!).  She talked to the doctor and answered the doctor’s questions very well!  When the doctor said “Can I look in your ears?  Where are they?”, Evie answered “Right here!” and pointed to her ears.  The doctor was impressed by her speech and how many words she is putting together.  She said that it sounds like her speech is a little advanced, closer to that of a three year old than a two year old.  I was not surprised – we definitely have a talker!  But back to her ears – she had ANOTHER double ear infection.  She had one about a month ago too.  She came down with a cold last week and that led to an ear infection.  I had no idea – she just had a runny nose and cough, no fever at all.  This is her 4th ear infection so if it happens again, I think we may be sent to a specialist to talk about tubes.

Last, but not least, Evie got two shots.  I gave her a lollipop beforehand to distract her.  She cried for half a second and then was fine.  Evie was a rockstar for her checkup and she won’t need any more vaccinations (other than a yearly flu shot) until kindergarten.