By the numbers

First, shout out to all the marching band geeks who hear "by the numbers" and think about going through a facing step by step. Just me?

Anyway, Tessa's two month well-baby appointment was Monday. We've been weighing her occasionally on my parents' scale, but didn't know how accurate it was. So we were guessing somewhere between 11 and 13 pounds.

It's funny, every time I go to the pediatrician, no matter what kind of visit it is, he reminisces about Luca's early visits. He kept losing weight in the beginning and we couldn't figure out why. To the point the doc was worried he had some condition that was preventing him from gaining weight. We were in every third day doing weight checks. He didn't get back up to his birth weight until he was a month old. As can be expected, the whole thing stressed Josh and I out. I guess it was one of the biggest unexplainable weight losses the doc had seen, and it stuck with him.

How's that for scale... she's getting big!

So when we brought Tessa in when she was a couple days old and she had only lost two ounces, and when we brought her at 2 weeks and she had gained, he said he was so glad that we weren't going through the same thing again. (Us too!)

On to the numbers... Our little miss is 12 and a half pounds and two feet tall! That's the 98th percentile for height! Think she got the same genes as her cousin Adrienne! =) She's in the 74th percentile for weight. She was a sweetheart during the appointment. While the doc was checking her eyes out, he waved the instrument in front of her face and said to me "She's tracking some." I nodded. When he was done he looked at me surprised and said, "She tracked the whole time." I nodded again--I knew that was a skill she had. I didn't know that it's most commonly a skill for 4 month olds. =) He was also impressed with her leg rolls and her tiny feet. Three shots (poor thing!) and we were headed home.