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<\/p>\nI had been telling Jon that we could make fat-baby jokes only until Rosie turned one year old. So now that she has come of age, we simply have to call her The Giantess. <\/p>\n
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Photo: Big smile, big fan, big girl.<\/span><\/p>\n We had Rosie’s one-year doctor’s appointment a couple weeks ago (April 3), and we learned that her growth continues to be spectacular:<\/p>\n Height: 32″ (99th percentile) At one year, Rosie weighs over a pound more than Lucy did at her two-year<\/em>\u00a0checkup (25 lbs 8 oz). Lucy weighed herself on our bathroom scale the other day, and she is right around 30 lbs. So Rosie weighs only about 10% less than Lucy does. This is good news for Rosie, especially because she is starting to develop enough stability and resourcefulness to fend off some of Lucy’s vigorous sister-hugs. :)<\/p>\n I decided to ask Dr. Minkus about Rosie’s nighttime feedings. Since Lucy weaned herself spontaneously from night feedings when she was ten months old, we’ve been sort of waiting and hoping that the same thing would happen with Rosie. Alas, Dr. Minkus gave us a reality check. “What Lucy did is very, very rare,” he said. And he affirmed that Rosie certainly no longer needs milk in the middle of the night. He recommended that we send Papa in to comfort Rosie when she cries at night. We just started this two nights ago, and Papa and Rosie are both doing great!<\/p>\n This visit also marked the first doctor’s visit for which Jon was not available to join me (due to his new job<\/a>). One of our terrific church friends, Porter, met us at Dr. Minkus’s office to help out with the girls. Porter was a huge help, and we had a record-short visit — in and out in 45 minutes! (Perhaps that makes up for the marathon appointment<\/a> last time.) Thanks to Dora for loaning us her terrific son for that time!<\/p>\n Lucy, who is very interested in vaccinations, was a little disappointed that Rosie didn’t need any needles stuck into her flesh this time. But Lucy is excited about the next appointment — her own — and looking forward to receiving a vaccination herself. We’ve been talking about how, if she wanted, she could go to school when she grows up to learn to give vaccinations. In the meantime, she enjoys practicing on us with pieces of string or small sticks.<\/p>\n Here’s to our vigorously growing girls!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had been telling Jon that we could make fat-baby jokes only until Rosie turned one year old. So now that she has come of age, we simply have to call her The Giantess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9909,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions\/9909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWeight: 26lbs 12 oz (98th)
\nHead circumference: 47 cm (91st)<\/p>\n