Natalie's stats

We decided to go ahead and go to Natalie's "well visit" even though she wasn't. So she has an officially diagnosed cold and can actually go to school tomorrow if she's not worse! Anyway, my wonderful friend Lisa offered to watch Joanna while I took Natalie (Whoo Hoo!!!!!!) so it was a pretty pleasant visit! Sweet Thing was cranky, though.
She is 17lbs 2oz; 26 1/2in long with a head circum. of 17.5in. She's proportunal, but her growth has slowed down. Doctor Harper says it's normal for babies to "adjust" as they really start moving. And boy does this girl move! She doing great developmentally (but we all knew that!) and had to have one shot. I wasn't anticipating that; I'm pretty sure Joanna did not have any shots at 9 months. Oh well.
It made her mad, to put it politely.
She also had to have blood drawn for an iron check. With Joanna, they pricked her finger and squeeeeeeezed the blood out. These days, they take it from the arm, like a grown-up! Seriously I wish I could have taken a picture! I held Natalie in a regular lab chair; she got a little tourniquet on her arm; and the phlebotomist used a tiny needle to grab a couple viles of blood. She was screaming hard, but the good news is that she didn't scream any harder when she was pricked. She was just already mad for oh so many reasons.
For your information: Natalie has good veins, just like me.

We came home and she napped, then we had a little lunch before fetching Joanna. Our friend Kim was in town from Austin with her kiddos so it there was quite a playday at Lisa's. I put Natalie in the Moby wrap so she wouldn't snot on anybody and we got to visit with everyone for a little while. There were kids everywhere! It was nice. I know Joanna had a great time. She came home wearing Vandenberge jeans so there was one accident, but who can blame a girl when there's so much going on?! Thank you so much, Lisa for giving me a 1-kid morning! You can drop yours off anytime!

Natalie is feeling better this afternoon, I'm very glad to say. Sadly she did not have much of an afternoon nap. That may be due in part to her sister spreading Vaseline all over her bedroom instead of napping and her mother hollering at aforementioned sister.

The very good news is that Matt is on his way home!!!