Last Friday I brought Taylor in to the pediatrician for her 6 month checkup. Usually she’s pretty mellow until we get to the time for shots, but not this time. Almost as soon as we got into the examining room, she started to let me know that she did not want to be there. She fussed and cried and by the time the guy came around to give her her shots, she was crying real tears. She’s becoming so in tune with her surroundings, I think she’s finally able to associate the doctor’s office with discomfort. Her doctor is wonderful, though, and she said that T.J. is doing just fine. Her head seems to be growing pretty rapidly, so we just have to keep an eye on it to make sure that nothing’s wrong. Otherwise, she’s doing great!
Taylor’s got about three moves in her repertoire that she utilizes to get her around. One is simply rolling, the second is the backwards scoot and the third move is sort of a rotating twist. It’s remarkable how much territory she can cover with just these three maneuvers. This week, she had a new development. I dropped her off with her babysitter and when I went to pick her up, Elizabeth said to me, “I didn’t know that Taylor’s sitting up on her own now”. She said that she laid Taylor and Cameron down on their tummies facing each other and she left the room for a minute and when she came back T.J. was sitting up! I was pretty shocked…she’s never done that at home. She must have been trying to impress Cameron, because we haven’t seen her do it since. At first Zach didn’t believe that it actually happened, but he kept pointing out how close she was to actually sitting up, so now he’s resigned himself to the fact that she did sit up, but it was probably a fluke.
