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    Hi! I'm Traci. I'm a Registered Nurse who loves quilting, knitting, cross stitch, and the great outdoors. In my pre-scrubs life, I owned Real Photography, and you can still see my old wedding and portrait photography site here .

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Ellie’s 15 month check

Raise your hand if you knew that you saw the pediatrician at 15 months for a well baby check. 

My hand would not have been raised for that one.  So we saw her at almost 17 months for a hybrid 15/18 month check (I’m not-so-secretly thrilled to have skipped out on a well baby check—I do not love spending an hour at the doctor’s office—seriously.  60 minutes—45 of that was waiting around.) 

She’s certainly attempting to catch up to her brother as the tall kid in the classroom!

Height: 96th percentile (the highest she’s ever been—usually she hovers around the 90th percentile)

Weight:  19th percentile (woot!  That’s the highest she’s been since her 8 day checkup.)

Head:  92nd percentile.  (I’m hoping it’s the brains rattling around in there.)