So yesterdy Chloe had her official 2 year check up. She is doing awesome!
She is 36 inches tall and weighs 34 1/2 lbs.
We had a lot of time to kill in the waiting area of the doctors office so some interesting things happened. It turned out to be a two hour wait! Man! I hate Dr's offices. Luckily neither Barry or I had to work that day.
For a couple days before the appointment, we'd explain that she was going to go see Doctor Gonzales to make sure she was alright. She was going to listen to her heart (so we taught Chloe where her heart was), weigh her, and make sure she was all healthy. She sounded ok with all that. I'd ask her "where are we going tomorrow" and she'd say "see doctor".
While waiting for our appointment, Chloe chatted with some other kids. She looked around whe we first got there and chimmed up "hi, peoples!" There were various toys around that she played with. Sometimes she took turns, other times she barged up to toys while other kids were playing with them. She's usually really, really good about taking turns with things or sharing.
There was this one big square toy that had different activities on each side of it--like a maze with a large bb- type thing in it that you worked to get to the center, a wire thing on top where you worked different shapes over the wires, and various other things.
Five kids were playing at this station. Chloe, three other girls and a little boy. This cute little boy sneezed really loudly and directly onto this prissy little girl that was standing beside him. The little girl burst into tears and started violently brushing off her sleeve where the boy had sneezed. It was really hard not to laugh. She made a bee-line for her Mom and didn't come back over to the playstation for quite a while.
Chloe met another cute little boy. At first when she saw him, she rubbed her hand over his hair. I don't know why. A little while later she hugged him! and hugged him. and hugged him. It went on for quite a while. She just stood there holding him. He took it well. Then they went back to playing. He was probably 4 or so.
Chloe was flitting around the lobby looking at other kids and showing them her belly button, or playing with this large mirror that warps your appearance. A couple of the Mom's in the waiting room had been watching her. She was playing with one particularly little boy that was really tiny, when the Mom chimmed up and asked me how old Chloe was. I told them she was two, and then they asked when she turned two. It was one of those "size up the compitition" kinda things. I was kinda laughing inside. She told me her little boy was on the upside of two-closer to three. Both Barry and I talked afterwards and thought he as a much younger little boy. He had beautiful light blond hair and big blue eyes with these neat wire framed sliver glasses. He was sure cute, but very little.
Chloe again saw the little boy that she had been hugging on earlier and went up to him really quickly. All the sudden they were both on the floor...she wouldn't let go! Down they went! He started crying, and crying!! He wasn't hurt at all and neither was Chloe. Again, I probably shouldn't have laughed, but I did. I told her to appologize and she said 'sorry', but I don't think she understood why she was appologizing. But we can't very well have out little amazon knocking down cute little boys due to hugs and kisses.
We finally got back to see Dr. Gonzales. We asked her about the odd patch of skin right by Chloe's right eye (just a birthmark), the possibility of her having asthma (not worried...at this age, kids lungs aren't up to capacity when they are running about full tilt).
Then the Doctor said that Chloe needed a shot for her immunizations. I was worried about this. She asked Chloe what kind of lollipop she wanted, cherry, lemon, orange, or chocolate. Chloe stated she wanted orange. We were really impressed. That meant she had listened to what was available, and rationally thought about what flavor she wanted...she didn't choose the first or the last flavors offered. She wanted orange.
So she got the shot. She wasn't happy at all about being held down. She only cried when the plunger of the needle sent the medicine into her thigh. Seconds after that she had stopped crying and was fine.
The doctor came back in with Chloe's orange lollipop. She told us how impressed with Chloe's vocabularly she was. In fact, I do believe she used the words "amazed" at Chloe's vocabularly. As the doctor was leaving, Chloe said "thank you, doctor". She asked if we'd made her do that (which we didn't...we'd explained about what a doctor was and all). Yep, the doctor was pretty impressed with Chloe.
Now every once in a while Chloe will chime up with "go see Doctor? Go see Doctor?" I don't know if it because she really wants to go back or have another lollipop!
