Miss M is 15 months old

We went to the doctor yesterday for Miss M's 15 month check-up and shots.

It wasn't a pleasant experience for anyone.  Miss M screamed from the time the doctor walked in and touched her stethoscope until the time the nurse left after stabbing her in the leg twice.  It was miserable.  Doctor appointments usually aren't fun but this seemed worse than usual.

We got home from Florida on Saturday and Miss M has just been completely out of sorts. She's more whiny, clingy, tired, and miserable.  I don't know if there is something actually wrong with her or if she's still struggling with getting back into a routine and missing all the people who were around for a week.  I need my kid back.  Quick.

Miss M's 15 month stats:

Weight: 21 lbs & 12 ozs. - 50%
Height: 31.34 inches - 90%
Head circumference: 48.5 - 95%

She's consistently staying in the same percentiles.  We didn't see our regular doctor due to a re-schedule of appointments.  The doctor noted the largeness of Miss M's head.  She did mention that my head didn't look particularly large therefore Miss M's dad must have a large head.  I don't think Andrew's head is larger than normal.  I can think of a few family members with noggins that might be considered larger than normal.

At the end of each routine visit to the doctor's office we receive a developmental screening checklist.  This checklist asks questions regarding Miss M's ability to do things from her current age through 16 months.  This checklist can be aggravating because I feel like Miss M can do a lot but not necessarily all the things on the list.  I realize I have six more weeks before the checklist has to be turned in but I like to get the survey done and be done with it.  Here's how she stands.

Miss M's gross motor skills (walking, climbing) are fine.

Miss M's fine motor skills (throwing a ball, turning book pages, drawing) are fine in my opinion.  I can't say she can stack three small blocks on top of each other but that's because we don't play with blocks.

Her problem solving skills appear to pass the test.

Her personal-social skills are fine although when she looks at herself in the mirror she does not offer a toy to her own image. I would guess that the fact that she doesn't offer a toy to her image makes her smart since she knows that person is her and not someone who will take a toy but I don't design the test.

The interesting part is the communication area.  She has a lot to learn before the survey gets sent in.  I don't know that she knows 8 or more words outside of "mama" and "dada".  I can think of the following (which aren't always very clear rather I just know what she's talking about) hot, dog, and ball.  The survey also asks if she imitates two word sentences...maybe...if I understood her.  There are times when I feel like she says "i do it". I guess I should pay more attention.  Then the last question says "can you understand most of what your child says?".  Is that a joke? I hope they don't mean verbally. I can usually figure out what she wants.

She's working on learning new body parts i.e. chin and cheeks.  She knows her main body parts.  We are working on animal noises/actions.  She's just learned the action/noise of a monkey and we're working on a sheep.  She doesn't really repeat or try to mimic noises/sounds that we make to her.

I think we're on the right track. Or well enough that we don't fail the test yet.

Until the next one...