It rained overnight, so I thought Willa would be thrilled to put on some rainboots and go splash in the puddles. She always loves to splash in puddles and I finally thought she was big enough to fit in the boots. When I got them out of the closet, I realized that she is almost too big for them now. Oops, my bad. I hate when that happens. She was a little curious about them, but soon learned their real purpose and had a great morning. This morning she came walking into my bedroom with the boots, which she had put on by herself!!! It was so very cute and also very sad when we went outside and she was looking for all the puddles which had dried up.
That was the fun part of the day. The not fun part of the day was getting her two year-old well-visit at the doctor's. She remembers that place ever since the many appointments with her broken wrist and she does NOT like it. Lots of tears, even when all the doctor was doing was using the stethoscope. Plus, a flu shot and a finger prick.
Willa is in the 69th percentile for weight and 80th percentile for height. That was a bit of a shocker to me. The doctor said we could stop buying her whole milk and start giving her what we are drinking. I was saddened to hear this, since I have been drinking the whole milk because I was tired of having so many different gallons of milk in the fridge. Whole milk is very delicious!
I talked to the doctor about Willa's speech and she agrees that she is very behind. I didn't realize how much behind! When I count up all the words she uses regularly or semi-regularly, it is about ten or less. Yikes. The doctor said she should be using at least fifty by now! I almost always understand what Willa is trying to communicate, so there haven't been a lot of tantrums and I just didn't realize how far behind she is. She has taken longer to do other things like waving or pointing out body parts. No matter how many times I worked with her on them, I would eventually give up and then a few weeks later she would just start doing them on her own. I'm kind of expecting that to happen with the speech. I tried to teach her the sign for "more" for MONTHS and never got anything from her. I finally gave up and about two months later, she just started doing it. She seems like she's just on her own timetable for things. She doesn't like to be a performing monkey for me, unfortunately. Still, a speech therapist is going to come and evaluate her and we will have her hearing tested. I'm glad because they can identify a problem if there is one, and even if it's nothing, they can give me tips on how to work with her to get her talking more. The only words she says with regularity are mama, dada, no, bye, hi, done, night, that, and dog. She never asks for a drink or cookie or candy or anything like that.
So, that was the doctor's appointment, which wasn't bad except for the crying! The bad part of the day was later on. She was leaning off the couch and fell and bit open the inside of her lip. It bled a lot and seemed pretty bad. It also happened right before naptime, so then she wouldn't nap because it hurting :(. It puffed up a lot, but is looking normal now. She's been getting a lot of popsicles and ibuprofen and seems to be doing a little better today, but still had trouble with lots of food. It was a very sad end to the day and it has been tricky finding foods to soothe the little tummy without hurting her mouth.
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