1 Year Check Up

Austin went for his one year check up today..Ears all cleared, YAY !!! I thought he was getting another infection in his right ear, he keeps banging his head and saying "echy echy"..I finally figured out that meant ouchy, ouchy..so I assumed he was getting another infection, NOPE..ALL CLEAR !!! Let's keep our fingers crossed that he is done with them..Other than that all is good..She said to get him off the bottle soon, which we have already started. He only get a bottle with formula when he goes down to sleep. She said to put him on whole milk, but I am going to keep him on 2% for now. When we are completely done with the formula, I will see if he needs the little extra. It's been a very busy year for him..

• His official weight is 24lbs. 1.6 oz (that's with only a diaper on)
• His official height is 2' 7.5 inches tall (which translates to 31.5 inches..WOW)
• Head circumfrence is 19.49" (which puts him WAY above the 100% percentile..lol..the doc showed me the graph and he isn't even near a line, but his growth follows the same curve of the line so he is fine)
• He has learned a few new tricks lately. He now has an opinion..shocked?!?! I tried giving him apple juice, not interested, he wants his milk. So I hold both of them out and ask him which one he wants, he points to the milk and says "mil"..when it's snack time I give him two choices and he picks one..and no he's not just pointing..he changes his choice each time.
• Pointing..we are soooo into pointing..He is pointing at everything..If he doesn't know what it is, then we tell him and he points to something else. Almost like he is asking what it is.
• Pointing again, if he wants something and he doesn't remember the name we get the pointing with "that"..yes he has learned that word (no pun intended)
• The other day he put two words together..he jumped off my lap and went to Shane and said "sit Daddy" and put his arms up
• His vocabulary has jumped soo much..he stopped saying Keira for some reason..he is saying two new words that I don't know, which is irritating bcuz normally I can get them pretty quick..I finally figured out one is "ouchy", the other, no clue!
• He has added door, open, close, in, out, cracker, chicken, thank you (I was not the only one to hear this, but it has only been a few times) and I am sure there are more that I just can't remember right now
• He has gotten into the whole getting dressed thing..don't get me wrong he WANTS to be NAKED, but when I do get clothes on him, he loves to help..He pushes his arms through the holes and then kicks his feet so I can't get the socks on..lol..once the socks do go on he grabs his shoes and tells me on
• He loves to go bye bye..ask him if he wants to go and he will grab his jacket and run for the door..Reaching for the handle and trying to turn it the whole time. Thank God we don't have those lever handles, bcuz he has managed to get out of the doc's room twice bcuz of those handles..

I am sure there are many other things, but I can't list them all..All in all he has turned into this little person. I love my daughter dearly and don't want to "compare" them, but he has so much more personality at this age then she did. Don't get me wrong, she has really made up for it..ha ha ha..The doctor is very pleased with his growth, his abilities and  his progress...I don't care about the percentiles, all I care about is my kids are happy, healthy, well rounded kids..you just have to look at them to know that..Even the doc told me "you have such beautiful children"..She doesn't have to tell me that..lol..I have seen some of the kids in that place..you know the ones that make you say..ohhhhh such a pretty..uhm outfit...