19 Months

Yesterday was Kassi's 18 month check up with her doctor. We ended up a month behind awhile back due to their schedule, so she is actually 19 months. She got her last immunization until she starts school. She weighs 27.5 pounds and is 33 inches tall. At each of her check ups he has given her a book. When he brought it in yesterday she said please and thank you to him. I was so proud of her! We did have to laugh after this, because she also remembered that this is where she gets suckers, so as soon as he was done listening to her heart beat and looking in her eyes, ears, etc. She started to cry and said "sucker". We all laughed and he reminded us that as we could tell this age was when they start to really build a memory!



Of course he went through the normal can she do this, does she do that, and when he got all finished he said she was actually rather advanced for her age! I try not to be the parent that is always bragging, but that was really encouraging and exciting to hear! We do not have her around many other kids her age and we don't see what other toddlers are able to do or say etc. So it was nice to hear that she is actually ahead of where she needs to be.



We asked him if he had any good suggestions on when he thought it was best to transition to a toddler bed and how we should do it. He said one way to look at it was as a safety issue, you don't want her to fall out of her crib if she tried to climb out, but then you don't want her to roll out of a toddler bed either. So he asked if the side rail of the crib was to end up pushed down, or to fall down to it's lowest setting could she climb out of the crib, we said yes, she can almost climb out with it all the way up. He then said that it was time to make a change then, because that could be a big safety issue, her trying to climb out and falling. While I still have reservations about making the switch I think he is right we should do something. He also told us that what they did was just put the mattress on the floor so if she rolled off it wouldn't hurt her. He said to then watch and when we notice she is not rolling off of the mattress anymore we could put the mattress back into the toddler bed frame. Wes and I talked about it and we think we are going to make this transition very soon. I wasn't sure what Kassi would think about this so I tried it yesterday. I pulled the mattress out of her crib and laid it on the floor. She instantly ran over climbed up on it and said "night, night".