1st Year Check Up! (12/20/2013)

For your first year check up you weighed in at 18 pounds and 15 ounces (15th percentile) you are 28.35 inches long (4th percentile) and your head is 18 inches in circumference (29th percentile).  This puts you somewhere around the 10th percentile in total. 

The doctor was very pleased with your size and your development and saw no real delays as the result of being born at 33 weeks.  This was sooo great to hear as mommy and daddy are sometimes worried about this just because you were born so early and there can be so many delays as a result.  To say that we are beyond thankful for how healthy you are is an understatement.  It is a bonus that you are the cutest and happiest baby in the world :-). 

Right now you haven't quite started walking but you are so very close.  You will take a couple steps here and there but you haven't quite worked up the courage to full on walk.  You are a very physical little boy though and your gross motor skills and fine motor skills are all average to above average.  Your verbal skills are a little below average but this is not atypical for boys.  You don't quite say mommy and daddy yet but you are working on it and we hope to hear both words frequently and soon.