12 Month Check-up

Yesterday was Sawyer's 12 month check-up, and I was pretty nervous about it.

The only thing I was worried about was those dreaded percentiles, but as soon as we got in there we were handed a form to answer with all kinds of questions about what Sawyer is and isn't doing. Many of the questions we had never tried... or even thought of trying with him.  I suddenly felt like I was being given a pop quiz and was failing miserably.

That only caused my tension to rise. 

When the doc finally made his way into the examination room, he shocked the heck out of me. Sawyer now sits firmly at the 55th percentile for weight and the 48th percentile for height. WAHOO! YIPPEE! HALLELUJAH! I told the doctor how shocked I was, and he offered to re-weigh and measure Sawyer.  No thank you, I responded. I will take those stats and run gleefully away with them.

He shocked me again when he asked if Sawyer was identifying Michael and me specifically as "mama" and "dada".  He's been saying those syllables (along with many others) for months and months now, but neither of us have ever noticed him using those words to refer to us. 

Hmm..
the doctor said.

Then he said if it was ok with us, he was going to refer us to have a free speech evaluation done for Sawyer. 

huh?

My little boy who literally babbles all the day long and never stops "talking" needs a speech evaluation? really? for realz? 

I accepted the offer, though, because it's free and it isn't going to hurt anything. He said they will probably just give us some suggestions for exercises we can do with him.

It is official now, though, that Sawyer does in fact have the most hyper-vigilant doctor in the world... and I'm just fine with that.