I had held off on posting Emilia's two year update because I was waiting for all of her doctor's visits to be completed. Overall, Dr. Walker thinks Emilia is doing just great. Her height is 33" which puts her in about the 45th percentile. Since this is the age when they predict a final height, Dr. Walker predicts Emilia will end up being between 5'3 and 5'5 (I'm 5'4).... kind of a shorty, but then again, other than my dad, there was not a lot of chance of her being tall. In terms of her weight, emilia's at 26 lbs... a bit of a drop off since her 18 month check-up, but she also runs around a whole lot and this is the age where one minute there's not enough food in the house for them to eat, and the next minute they want nothing to eat (except, apparently, catsup... Emilia will eat that plain).Faves: Emilia loves her "cole nuevo" (new school) and loves to dance and to sing. I have to remember to videotape her learning new dance moves from her Papa - truly terrifying if you've ever seen Marcus dance (think Pinnochio). We hear "Twinkle Twinkle" the "Clean Up" song (from the Y and from school), the "Hello" song, "Happy Birthday" (in English and Spanish) and the "ABCs" all the time (along with others). She also loves her new trike she got for her birthday and spending tons of time outside, even if the mosquitos like to eat her alive. We've also had lots of lunches at her new picnic table from Tia Marga. Fave foods include broccoli (yuck), catsup (on everything), whole wheat waffles (preferably with blueberry syrup from Gapa), and of course, "hummy bap" (hummus and pita).
Dislikes: She hates to wear a bib at mealtimesand hates having her diaper changed. Seriously, it's like a WWF wrestling match to change her diaper. She'll use the potty sometimes, but not on any sort of a regular basis, and I'm not interested at this point in pushing it. She also hates brushing her teeth (again, a wrestling match), but Dr. W said as long as they get a really good brushing at least 1 time a week, we're good. So we're good for a while (no more shots!) until November when Dr. W wants to see us for an asthma action plan update and we go back to the allergist/pulmonologist.
showing off some moves at the greek festival
One thing Dr. Walker did notice was that Emilia has a heart murmur. This was first heard in Ecuador by Dr. Eguiguren when he examined her because of a rash she had. I thought he was mistaken, but apparently no. This week I took her to Presbyterian Pediatric Cardiology where the wonderful Dr. Greene and his staff hooked her up to an EKG machine and did an echo of her heart. Kinda cool, but also kinda creepy and I must admit to doing a whole lot of praying while they were looking at her heart. Of course, everything came back just fine. She has what's called a "Still's murmur" which is an innocent murmur and will just need to be evaluated periodically. (Another plus, we have a cool picture of all 4 chambers of her heart... will have to scan to post at some point).
Video of some dancing *warning: the sound is VERY loud - the music was BLARING*
3 comments:
wow about the heart murmur, but so glad it turned out okay!! will watch the dance moves when kate wakes up. can't wait. love all the cute pics of emi though. tooth brushing is ridiculously hard at our house too. we have to both pin her down.
Gosh, a heart murmur, huh?! So, glad everything is fine though. I LOVE Dr. Greene - had several clients who had received their heart surgeries from him (He did a great job on all of them!) Can't wait to show Zoe the video of Emi and her dance moves!
way to get jiggy with it Emi! heart thing is crazy but I know another boy with it and really its nothing. we have all the same dislikes...funny how they are all the same and all so different at the same time:)
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