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Last week Gabby had her 2 year wellness check up.  We went to the new civilian doctor we had been set up with.  For days before we talked about going and practiced what the Dr would do; listen to her heart, look in eyes, ears, push on tummy, stand on scale.  She was all ready to go and said she was going to let the Dr give her a check up.  We brought our new Dr kit with us too.  We waited over an hour and a half!  This was for a 9:30am appointment, I don't know how behind you can be that early but we waited.  They FINALLY called us back, from then on Gabby clung to me and didn't want anyone to touch her.  She cried the whole time the Dr was in the room, telling us she was done.  It only lasted about 5 minutes, she got one shot and we were done.  The next day we went to get her ordered blood work (he orders it for everyone) which was a complete blood count and a lead test.  She fell asleep on the way there, Clay and I debated to wake her before we went in.  We opted for the rude awakening because they would actually have a chance at getting near her.  It worked. She woke up just as they started to draw her blood, cried a little and then was happy!  All her blood work came back normal!

At two years old Gabby weighs in at 27 lbs putting her in the 60% (just in the past 3 months has she gained 2 lbs, she was holding steady at 25 for months).  Height was measured at 35 and a half inches, meaning she is in the 90%.  How we have such a tall child is purely genetics said the Dr who was 3 inches shorter than me!

Other news, Gabby is really into speaking other languages.  Some is coming from TV shoes (Dora, Diego and Kai Lan) but others is Clay and I trying to expand on what she knows.  In Spanish she counts to 5, but knows 8 and 9 too.   In Spanish she knows how to say; happy birthday, big, little, slow, fast, long, short, lets go, help me, hello, goodbye,  ball, red, butterfly, and a few that I am forgetting.  In Chinese we say, Hi, thank you, and are working on come on and 1,2,3.  We are back to doing some sign language too.  We seemed to have stopped some where along the way when she started the CONSTANT talking.  She really likes to use her signs and we quiz each other with them.  

   Well I am off to play doctor again, this time it isn't for fun. Gabby came down with a fever while we were out to dinner to celebrate a friends birthday last night.  Clay was working his night shift so he dropped us off after dinner and went to work till 6am.  I got no sleep because I was worried and taking care of Gabby- who acted fine and was pretty happy but was burning up and had a fever of 102.