One year appointment

Rachel had her one year check up yesterday and everything seems great! She is 29 inches long/tall and not quite 21 lbs (20lbs 14oz). She's hardly gained any weight since her last check up but she has grown a few inches so that's good. The rest of her checkup was fine and she goes back on the 16th to get her one year needles. The good news with that date is that Grandma will have the pleasure of taking her to that appointment since I'll be back to work!

Speaking of back to work - I have one week left. ONE WEEK! And let me tell you - it's going to be a busy week at that! I have a hair appointment on Tuesday (cut & colour), Rachel gets her pictures taken on the Wednesday, then on Thursday I have a pedicure scheduled and then Friday we take Rachel to see Dr. Jain in Cambridge to see if he knows what these brown marks are on her legs & chest. Then Saturday I'll be busy all day getting ready for her party on Sunday! Sunday will be a BUSY day but I expect it will be a blast, too. A perfect way to end my year off work. *sigh*

Rachel is doing very well with her 'walking'. She takes between 8-10 steps now on her own and she's standing for considerable amounts of time, too. It's just so weird to look over at her and she's standing all by herself. She's definitely not a baby anymore! I'm still hopeful that she'll be walking by her birthday. Everyday she seems to get more and more confident.

I think that's about it for now. We're hoping to go to the Hot Air Balloon Festival this weekend downtown. It seems like we'll have to wake Rachel up early in the morning to see them take off though (they take off at 6:30am). They also take off at 6:30pm but that's cutting it too close to her bedtime and we have learned the hard way that she needs to be in bed by 7:30 or else we pay the price (she's overtired and cries and whines - just not worth it). We'll see what happens though - getting up early is going to be tough..buuuuutttt, I guess I'll need to get used to that. UGH