Yesterday I finally took Rai in for his 2 year appt. Yes, he turned 2 almost 2 months ago, but we have all been sick so I had to keep rescheduling. Anyway, here's his stats:
Weight: 25 lbs (that's about the 10th percentile)
Height: 35" (50th percentile)
He is perfectly healthy. My Dr. said she is impressed with how well he's caught up for being early, and of course all preemies are said to catch up completely/level out by age 3. He can count to like 14 or 15, and we play this game where we take turns: I say 1, then he says 2, etc. And we do the same with the ABC's, though he isn't as good at that. He is a major chatterbox, and loves to repeat our prayers at bed time, nap time, dinner... sometimes when he's freaking out about something, I tell him it's time to say a prayer and once we do he calms down. The way he says, "Heavenly Father," is so cute!
It is hard to tell if he's just going to be smaller than the avg. Redford, or if it's his preemie status that is keeping him so little. I hope it's the latter. I want to finally have a tall person in my family! Not that there's anything wrong with being short, but it would be a nice change. My mom is 4'11" and my dad is about 5'8", so he probably doesn't stand a chance. Haha. However, the shortest person in Ryan's family is about 5'7", and that's his sister. So who knows.
He still barely fits into most 18 m sizes, and has only outgrown a couple of the brands in that size. So he has all of these 24 m shorts that won't fit him until winter, or later. Oh well! I have gotten used to folding them over and that seems to work for the most part. Ok I'm blabbing, but I haven't blogged about my son in a long time, so I need to keep up with the memories.
So my brother Nick came with me to the appt, and it was his first day back in town after going up to NAU for a month. Raiden was thrilled to have him back, so he was acting very happy and hyper. Which made it sad when he got two shots and screamed his head off. Then later he said, "Mama, I hurt." Which broke my heart even more. My pedi's nurse seems to be so rough with those needles. The one time Raiden didn't scream was when a different nurse gave him a shot. Even today his leg is tender and a little bruised. Poor baby!
When we got home he was already asleep, and I laid him on the couch, thinking he would wake up right away. But he slept there for like another hour. And if you know Raiden, you know that's totally unheard of. I did purposely skip his nap so he'd sleep after the shot, but he never is able to sleep anywhere aside from his bed, and sometimes the car. Anyway, it was a fun day having Nick with us and it helped Rai feel a bit better. I'll post more about Raiden's latest habits, words, fav. pastimes, etc. when I get more time. It's hard to blog now b/c my TV is my computer monitor, and someone is always watching something. Usually Thomas...or the news.
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