Fifteen Months & Nine weeks and three days

Amelia had her fifteen month check up a couple of weeks ago and the 'new kid' had it's nine week and three day appointment the previous week.

Amelia's appointment consisted of four shots and all the normal check up stuff.  She weighed 25 lbs and 15 oz which is the 75th percentile and was 32 inches tall which is the 90th percentile.  The doctor was impressed at how many words she's saying, we didn't really have a number when the nurse asked, but after adding them up we came up with about 15-20 words.  I'm not sure what's considered normal at this age, but I love to hear her talk.  She's recently learned to 'jump', which is just her bending her knees and then raising up, she can give you a high five, and she can now say 'baby' and show us where her nose and her mouth is.  She's still an excellent eater, but it's becoming more difficult because now she wants to do it on her own, without any help, at all.  I'm not talking her wants to just pick up the food and feed herself, no she wants the spoon and the plate or the bowl and she wants to do it herself, without you helping.  She and Nathan had a little power struggle in the restaurant the other day over who was feeding who.  :)  She's the light of our lives right now, such a beautiful, smart and independent little girl.

At my most recent OB appointment we were supposed to be able to hear the heartbeat, I was only nine weeks and three days and normally you don't get to hear the heartbeat until ten weeks, but Dr. Powell was going to be out of town for my 10 week appointment so we had to move it up a week.  I stressed about this before hand, I thought if they don't hear the heartbeat with the doppler then I'm going to have to wait 4 more weeks for a chance to hear it again.  So I ask the nurse, Nancy, what will happen if she isn't able to find the heartbeat and she said we'd do a quick ultrasound to see it, they wouldn't send me home without knowing something!  I was so thankful for that.  Anyways, Nancy was unable to detect the heartbeat with the doppler monitor and said she'd run down to the ultrasound tech and ask her to take a peek.  Que me about having a heart attack.  Nathan was as calm as could be and keep trying to talk to me to keep my mind off of it, but I wasn't doing so well at staying calm.  The ultrasound tech finally can and got us after 20 minutes and did an ultrasound and saw the 'new kids' heartbeat right off.  We even got to listen to it through the sonogram.  175 is what the heartbeat rate was, super fast.  We got a cute picture to hang on our frig too.  All that worrying for 20 minutes for nothing.  I have to remember God is in control and has a plan for our lives and to trust in Him.

So everything is good with both kiddos!  (That's so crazy to say.)