4th Check-up

Today was Summer's 6 month checkup.  She got 4 shots, one of which was the flu shot.  She has to go back in a month for a 2nd flu shot because they said the first one does not make them completely immune to the flu.  Clint held her today while she was getting her shots...and not enjoying it I must say.  I was video taping and Clint was smiling while he was holding her.  I got that on tape, so one day she will see her dad smiling at the same time she is screaming her head off.  Well, it is still attached, but you know what I mean.  She weighed 17 lb. 2 oz. (75 percentile) and was 27 1/4" tall (85 percentile).  So, she is big for her age, but her body is well proportioned so she is growing well.  The doctor said Summer is developmentally a month ahead of where she should be right now.  She said she thinks Summer may walk early....YIKES!!!  I am NOT ready for that.  I still have to find one of those fence things for my living room which neither Wal-Mart nor Target carry so I am not sure where to get one....hmmmm...any ideas?  Oh yeah, the paper that they put on the table/place where the patient sits during an exam (I am drawing a blank on what it is called) was Summer's favorite thing about her visit today.  The stethoscope was a close second.  Anyway, Summer was ripping the paper and trying to eat it.  She made a big mess and we finally had to get rid of it all together and just put her on the table without the paper.  She is all about paper right now.  If she sees it, she wants it.  When we were in the waiting room, Clint was holding her and trying to read a magazine.  Summer got a hold of one of the pages and ripped it out.  Lucky for us, she did not pitch too much of a fit when we took it away from her.  She was pretty good during the whole visit, but at the end she got a little cranky.  I don't know if she sensed that the shots were coming or what, but she got restless.  She did not cry for that long after the shots and was all better by the time I got her clothes back on. 

After that, we took her to the mall to get her ears pierced.  It took the girl a while to get the dots on her ears even because every time she started to do it, Summer would turn her head and get fussy.  We finally got them straight and got ready for the actual piercing.  Clint was manning the video camera while I held Summer.  The piercing actually went much smoother than the placement of the dots on the ears.  She did get a little more upset when the earrings went in....go figure.  It was all over in a few minutes and she was finished crying before we even paid for it.  Well, my computer is about to die so I better save this.  I'll add pics later.