Natalie's 9 Year Check-Up

Okay so here are the stats on Natalie. She's 50 1/2 inches tall and weighs 68 1/2 pounds. She's a little above the 50th %tile for weight and a little under the 50th for height, but the doctor says it's all good. Natalie also had to get her chicken pox booster shot today. She did great. When the doctor was done she looked at her and looked at her arm and looked at her again smiled and said, "That's it; that didn't hurt!"

Natalie didn't do so great on her vision test and she was wearing her glasses. The doctor started to tell me that she might need to see an eye doctor and I told her that was with her glasses. She asked when was the last time they were checked and I said she just got them in January. So since insurance probably won't pay for another pair of glasses until it's been a year we'll have to wait. So she told me that if she's having problems seeing the board at school that I should talk to the teacher about it and explain that we have to wait until January. Hopefully it won't be too much trouble.

The doctor spoke to Natalie about her changing body and hormones and all that stuff. She did a nice job talking to her about all of that. She checked to see how far along in puberty she is and she said she is starting, but it's very early in. If she was further along she was going to talk to her about her period, but she's not that close I guess to getting her first period. That's good to hear. She asked me how old I was when I got mine and I was 13 and she asked about how early Joe had started going through puberty. I don't think that is something I've ever thought to ask him actually ;). I think he was older though so she said because of how late I got my 1st period and when Joe likely started puberty she probably wouldn't be going through all of this too much earlier than I did. Good because I'm not ready for this. Although we will talk to her more about that stuff.

All in all it was a good appointment except for the long wait we had (an hour and 15 minutes) in the waiting room. I'm beat and am just waiting to give CJ one more feeding before I go off to bed myself.

Tomorrow Kaitlyn is finally getting her bangs cut. They are way too long and have been bothering her. Plus we can't see her eyes. I'll try to share a before and after picture for you. We're just doing her bangs though and not the rest of her hair. With the summer and her hair always up in pony tails and all the chlorine from the pool her hair usually gets pretty brittle and breaks by the end of the summer. So we'll get a real nice cut for her to go back to school the end of August. Now I just want her to see again and to see those pretty blue eyes of hers again. I think they are still blue. I don't know it's been a while since I've actually seen them.