Adam will be 18 months old tomorrow so today I took him for his check-up. Here are his stats:15 months:
21 lbs. 2 oz. (10th percentile)
31.5 inches (75th percentile)
18 months:
21 lbs. 14 oz. (5th percentile)
32 inches (50th percentile)
Sigh. My child isn't growing very well! He's been decreasing in percentiles since 12 months. He likes milk, but he just doesn't drink much even though we constantly offer it to him. The doctor suggested feeding him lots of cheese, peanut butter, pasta, and butter. That is so counter- intuitive for me! I know children have much higher metabolisms than adults and need calories and fat because they are growing, but I feel like if I start stuffing him full of fat I'll wind up with an obese child who will only eat fattening things! I guess as long as I'm not filling him up on sugar, fat coming from dairy and carbs isn't all that bad. I sort of feel like I'm failing him. He's struggled with his weight since he was born and we always feed him until he refuses anymore so I guess that's all I can do. Maybe he got a mysterious skinny gene? If only I possessed such gene.
Other than his physical growth, the doctor is very happy with his development. He said with as many words ands signs as he knows (I have no idea what the count is, but it's a lot) he should be putting 2-3 word sentences together shortly. He's done it a couple times but it was more of a string of thoughts, not words. A few weeks ago he found an old car-remote-door-lock-thingy and said, "beep car bye-bye". He knows if you push the button the car beeps and that we go bye-bye in it. How cute!
My favorite thing about my 18 month old right now is how much he loves to sing. He can sing most of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" using "ba" as his consonant and gets the tone of the notes and the rhythm right. He knows ending words/sounds of some of the phrases of "I Am a Child of God", "The ABCs", and a couple of the lullabies I sing to him. While driving home from the doctor today, he started singing a song from one of his Baby Signing Time DVDs. The chorus is, "Outside, Outside" and I listened to him sing "ah-si, ah-si" over and over again with the right notes and rhythm and caught him signing the word "outside" while he sang ! I hope he has inherited his parents love of music!
I will close my bragging post. These past 18 months have flown by and I've loved it all! We have been blessed with an easy-going, happy boy and we are so lucky!
