Double-Duty Doctor Time!

Last week we went to visit Dr. Hood for Addie's four-year checkup and Landon's 15-month. I figured I'd better go ahead and post about it, since we're leaving for the beach tomorrow, and hopefully I'll have lots of fun beach-related posts when we return. Anyway, I love well-baby visits. I love to see how much the kids have grown and if they're doing what they're "supposed" to be doing. All was well, and Dr. Hood was pleased with their growth and impressed with their development. What can I say? Baby geniuses, I tell ya! ;) Hehe.

Here are the stats (and some extra mommy commentary for my memory):

Addie:
* 3 feet, 1 3/4 inches (10-25%)
* 32 pounds (25%)
* "normal" body mass index
* almost in a size 7 shoe (munchkin feet!)
* wears 3T and 4 clothes
* goes to bed a little past 8 p.m., wakes up around 7:30 or 8 (on the weekends; we wake her up around 6:30 on weekdays)
* has an AMAZING vocabulary
* still loves art and is quite talented
* loves to spend time outside
* still obsessed with wearing dresses!
* becoming a little more of a morning person (thank goodness)
* makes up hilarious stories and "games"

Some Addie-isms:
* "ungrella" for umbrella
* "oskritch" for "ostrich"
* "becation" for "vacation" (I may have blogged that one before - still one of my favorites :))
* She was trying to get ready to go swimming and when her underwear were caught around her foot, she said, "Get off of me, panties, I need to be nekkid!" (Wow.)
* Is increasingly excited about July coming up because she'll "get to throw candy in the parade!" (Huh?)
* Honestly, she has us practically in tears from laughing at least once a day. I need to be better at writing this stuff down...


Landon:
* 30 1/4 inches (20-25%)
* 23 pounds (25-30%)
* size 4 shoe
* is getting four molars at once - three have broken through!
* size 4 diaper
* starting to run instead of walk everywhere!
* has LOTS of words and a few phrases: "dee-do" for "thank you" (unprompted!); bye-bye, ball, baby, hi, cheese ("sees!"), dog ("daw!"), diaper (biper), Addie ('Dee or Addie), Papa, Nana, banana (both "nana" :)), Mama, Dada, Mimi, PawPaw (BawPaw), milk ("me"), more ("ma"), shoe ("boof"), Dagny (a classmate), cookie ("doot-dee"), Mickey ("mimmey"), probably some more...
* has started playing hide-and-seek when we come to pick him up
* every single day has a note on his daycare sheet about how much his teachers love him and how sweet and cute he is
* is still a good baby, but of course he is getting quite skilled at the tantrums :)
* still a Daddy's boy!

Sweet pea.


Just-as-sweet pea.

Zoo time!

We have actually done lots of fun things in the past few weeks, but one super-fun thing we did was take a whirlwind trip to Memphis this past weekend with the D'Amicos and the McCaskeys! We left Friday after work and stayed the evening in Germantown, then got up and hit the zoo bright and early (okay, not really, but we got there a little bit after it opened at 9 a.m., which was impressive for three families of little ones!). We had a great time and all the kids were really good! Addie and Holland (and Quinn, a lot of the time) ran around and checked out all the exhibits. Landon and Britain stayed in their strollers for the most part - Landon hasn't been 100% for the past week or so (teething? tummy bug? cold? who knows?) and Brit isn't big enough to walk yet :)

After the zoo we headed to Rendezvous Ribs and we were so glad we did! YUMMY! I know there were plenty of other awesome restaurants that we didn't get the chance to check out, but maybe next time. It was a great trip!

He woke up with an upset tummy but was rarin' to go after finding this chair - ha!



Look at those adorable cheeks! Love this kiddo!
(Britain and Skye)


Thinking hard about where to go next...hmmm...


Carousel fun time



HAHAHAHAHA!