Doctors, doctors, doctors

18 Month Check-Up

This week Brody has been busy going to his doctors' appointments... just for check-ups! Our first doctor appointment this week was for his 18 month check-up. Brody is in the 50th percentile for his height (32 in) and weight (25 lbs). His head is in the 95th percentile... yes folks he still has his big noodle head. We all still have concerns about Brody's calcium intake or lack there of.... every time he eats just a serving of go-gurt he has a terrible diaper (you get what I am trying to say). So, we have scheduled an appointment to go and meet with a Pediatric GI doctor from Stanford next month. I will keep everyone up dated with the results of that appointment. Brody did receive his last shot and he was a trooper.

1st Dentist Appointment

Yesterday I took Brody to his first Dentist appointment. I did not have concerns about his teeth, I just wanted to him to start getting used to going to the dentist. He did great! The dentist office was straight out of the movie "Finding Nemo." The fish tank with the dental chair behind...yup it was there! They even had all of the same fish in the tank. The office was accessorized with plush fish on the benches and jelly-fish hanging from the ceiling.

Brody received a new penguin tooth brush, a picture, a sticker and a baseball to remember his trip to the dentist. The dentist told me to be expecting a book in the mail about taking care of teeth. In the book I will be able to put his picture and add his sticker. I can't wait to see this book! I was very impressed with Brody's new dentist. She was super nice and we are looking forward to seeing her in August!

While we waiting for the dentist, Brody showed the dentist how we brush his teeth. I then asked the dental assistant to help take pictures of Brody first trip to the dentist. The assistant took some great pictures and had no fear about putting the camera right into Brody's face.

Brody sat backwards on my lap and then we leaned him back so the dentist

could examine his teeth.

Brush... brush... brush...

Counting teeth... 1...2...3... 16!

You have 16 teeth!

Words can not express how much I love this picture....

I think his eyes say it all!

An afternoon at San Francisco Zoo

The San Fransisco Zoo is a quaint little zoo nestled right next to the Pacific Ocean. The zoo itself feels vintage, almost like a walk back into the 1930's Art Deco time period. In the back of the park, there is a small steam engine "choo-choo" train. This was Brody's first train ride.

Getting a little nervous waiting to ride the train....

it is so loud and scary....

guys I don't know about this train thing....

This is a view of the back part of the park. The cypress trees are so cool.

Walking my Puppy...

Brody loves dogs. Our two dogs, dogs we see at the park, his stuffed pup dog he sleeps with and this little plastic puppy with his red string.

He loves to place this pup all over the apartment. He also loves to walk the pup... oh I mean drag him around. So I captured a few pics of Brody "walking of the dog."

Come on puppy let's go this way.....

Wwwweeeee!

The poor puppy looks exhausted!

I Love my iPOD

Brody loves everything technology. Well let's face it he sees Mommy and Daddy playing with lots of fun "techy" things.... it is only fitting that Brody would love these things too! So, I found my iPOD video and gave it to Brody. He loved clicking the button and watching the videos.

Then I handed him my ear-buds. He already knows to hold them to his ears to listen to the music. (The volume is turned down low as not to damage his his hearing.) Brody walks around the apartment carrying his iPOD with the ear-buds in tow. So CUTE!!!! He has been busy trying to plug the chord into the iPOD. I love watching his face while trying to do this because he looks so determined.... Enjoy the pics!

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I Love the Slide.... weeeeeeee!

Brody has become very independent at the park. He will climb up the stairs on his own and slide down the slide. He will sit on his bottom and scoot, scoot, scoot to lip of the slide (all while screaming weeeeeeee) and then he slides. I love that he feels safe enough to do these things on his own. He is so BIG!

Brody loves to walk across this bridge and stop in the middle. We then sing "Stomp your feet like a dinosaur.. stomp...stomp....stomp....stomp!"

Brody also really loves to play in sand. So we bring our sand pails, shovels and spoons to play in the sand. Moomy like when Brody uses the shovels and spoons so he can work on his fine motor skills. During this time the sand is flying and we both are very dirty.

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