General catch-up post
I've been remiss, as I often am. I'll do an update now.
We took Zoë to the pediatrician a few weeks ago, and the doctor was very pleased with Zoë's progress. She did order a couple more tests for things (just to be on the safe side), but she told us that we don't need to come back unless we feel there's a problem for which Zoë needs to be seen!
As for those tests, one was a blood test (Zoë was very brave) and the other tested her urine. I was wondering how on earth I was going to get a urine sample, but it proved to be fairly straightforward. Zoë was quite amazed by having her wee in a jar! She kept saying "You got Zoë's wee!" and when Daddy and Zoë got to the lab for the testing, Zoë got hold of a "customer satisfaction form" and a pencil and sat down and wrote on the card: Zoe wee (naturally, I've kept the card).
The tests were all perfectly normal, by the way. She hasn't got any genetic or metabolic disorders. We knew this, but as the pediatrician says, it's better to check and be sure than to have the child suffer because we didn't check and she does have the problem.
Generally speaking, she's doing well, although as she develops more language, she's turning into a real smart alec. Her latest is to tell people to "be quiet!" when she doesn't want to listen, or telling people to "SSSH!" or, if she's being scolded, telling me, "No, not Zoë! Miranda!" (meaning: don't tell me off, tell off Miranda). It's actually quite rude and extremely frustrating for us. She has no sense at all that she should NOT be speaking to us that way. I keep telling her it's naughty and rude, so perhaps she'll eventually work it out. She'd better, that's all I can say!
In other matters, Zoë was infected with head lice, which she got from her sister (who got it from some random kid at school). Zoë has been very good and patient with letting me treat her hair, including sitting around for two hours with a plastic cap and medicated cream on her hair! She let me comb her hair with a fine tooth comb and everything, she was very good. She said "I have itchy nits" and "I have bugs in my hair" and "Nits are naughty!" so she very clearly understood what was making her itch!
School holidays are about 75% over (thank goodness). She goes back on Monday. She's really needed the rest, but now she's getting bored and therefore turning into a troublemaker. She's gotten into things she absolutely KNOWS she's supposed to leave alone, and she's frequently fighting with Miranda, much to my great annoyance.
So anyway, Zoë is doing well, growing properly, speech is developing slowly but definitely, and she's doing so well that she no longer needs to see her pediatrician (just our local family doctor for routine things). Oh, and she's got another wiggly tooth...
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