Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Harmon gets some pub
Here's Harmon doing the no-pants dance in the Detroit Free Press. Thanks, Aunt Stacey!
One-year appointment
Yesterday morning, Harmon had his one-year appointment. We knew it might be a tough day for him when he cried GETTING WEIGHED. Actually, he always cries when he gets weighed, which I don't understand. Maybe he's cold – I don't know. Anyway, he only weighed a little over 28 pounds, which Kevin and I found shocking. He weighed 25 pounds at his nine-month appointment so only a three-pound gain was a surprise to us. I guess he tapered off a bit because of all the crawling and cruising – we’ve noticed his little belly is shrinking. But, he's still in the 97th percentile in weight so we're not worried. He also measured in at about 33 inches long, in the 99th percentile. All in all, still a big boy and getting a little harder to control.
We had all kinds of questions for the doctor, mostly about milk, food and developmental milestones. Our doctor always laughs at us (in a nice way) as we come in with a list of 20 questions! The doctor felt he was doing great and noted how impressed he was with Harmon's verbal skills. Thanks to my Mom, if you say the ABCs to him, he will copy you and, most of the time, will get the sounds right. He decided to play along and show off for the doctor yesterday, which was great. I said it offset him not crawling until he was 10 ½ months old!
After all the easy stuff, it was time for the immunizations. He was slated for four immunizations, ½ flu shot and a blood draw. The doctor cut him some slack and did two immunizations, the ½ flu shot and the blood draw. He'll get the other ½ flu shot and his last immunization next month. As usual, Kevin had to hold him for his shots as I just can't handle it. I feel pretty useless as a Mom when it comes to this kind of stuff. But, as I quickly learned, the immunizations are NOTHING compared to a blood draw. We had this done in the lab and they had me lay him down with his right sleeve rolled up, just like a real, little patient. At that point, I seriously felt light-headed so Kevin had to take over. I left the room thinking for sure I was going to pass out (I have a problem with needles, you see) but was able to keep it together. The blood draw went pretty quick and he forgot it in no time. I, on the other hand, felt terrible – I really need to deal with this fear since it's not going to go away.
The rest of the day, Harmon was really sleepy so I decided to go into work (I had thought about staying home with him as I have after every other appointment). He was with Kevin, though, so all was fine. I think I was just feeling guilty. He slept most of the day and, when I got home from work, we took him to Toys R Us and got him these cool LEGO blocks for being such a good boy.
Kevin and I are taking tomorrow off and we're planning to take Harmon to see Santa at the fancy mall, the Somerset Collection. We're also hoping to keep chipping away at our Christmas shopping. On Thursday, we'll be at my Uncle Max's house for Thanksgiving and, on Friday, we're hoping to put up a lot of our Christmas decorations. On Saturday, thank God, I am finally getting a hair cut. All in all, a nice, long, relaxing holiday weekend that we can’t wait to get started.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
We had all kinds of questions for the doctor, mostly about milk, food and developmental milestones. Our doctor always laughs at us (in a nice way) as we come in with a list of 20 questions! The doctor felt he was doing great and noted how impressed he was with Harmon's verbal skills. Thanks to my Mom, if you say the ABCs to him, he will copy you and, most of the time, will get the sounds right. He decided to play along and show off for the doctor yesterday, which was great. I said it offset him not crawling until he was 10 ½ months old!
After all the easy stuff, it was time for the immunizations. He was slated for four immunizations, ½ flu shot and a blood draw. The doctor cut him some slack and did two immunizations, the ½ flu shot and the blood draw. He'll get the other ½ flu shot and his last immunization next month. As usual, Kevin had to hold him for his shots as I just can't handle it. I feel pretty useless as a Mom when it comes to this kind of stuff. But, as I quickly learned, the immunizations are NOTHING compared to a blood draw. We had this done in the lab and they had me lay him down with his right sleeve rolled up, just like a real, little patient. At that point, I seriously felt light-headed so Kevin had to take over. I left the room thinking for sure I was going to pass out (I have a problem with needles, you see) but was able to keep it together. The blood draw went pretty quick and he forgot it in no time. I, on the other hand, felt terrible – I really need to deal with this fear since it's not going to go away.
The rest of the day, Harmon was really sleepy so I decided to go into work (I had thought about staying home with him as I have after every other appointment). He was with Kevin, though, so all was fine. I think I was just feeling guilty. He slept most of the day and, when I got home from work, we took him to Toys R Us and got him these cool LEGO blocks for being such a good boy.Kevin and I are taking tomorrow off and we're planning to take Harmon to see Santa at the fancy mall, the Somerset Collection. We're also hoping to keep chipping away at our Christmas shopping. On Thursday, we'll be at my Uncle Max's house for Thanksgiving and, on Friday, we're hoping to put up a lot of our Christmas decorations. On Saturday, thank God, I am finally getting a hair cut. All in all, a nice, long, relaxing holiday weekend that we can’t wait to get started.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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