2 Year Checkup

Asher was finally able to get his 2 year checkup yesterday.  It's been a long wait since he turned 2 in August!  We couldn't do it in August because 1) we were just about to move (again...) and 2) because we had no insurance.  And after David started his job here we had a 2 month waiting period before we could use the insurance.  David and I were discussing that it is abnormal for all three of us to have insurance at the same time, let alone on the same network!  It's a sad thought, but hopefully we're past that phase of life now!

Everything checked out great.  Asher is doing great.  And my favorite part is finding out how big he is.  For weight we managed to make it all the way up to 55th percentile!  Usually he's sitting at about 20th.  For height he is......99th percentile!  He's always been way tall.  Everyone always adds on about a year when they guess how old he is. 

One thing I brought up with the doctor was Asher's speech.  For those people that have a lot of interaction with Asher, you know that he loves to jabber!  But he hasn't learned a lot of actual words.  The doctor had me guess how many words he knew.  I guessed he has said about 50 words, but only uses about 25 regularly.  Apparently that's the minimum requirement for 2 year olds (to know 25 words and can say 2 word phrases), but he said if in 3 months Asher hasn't made any progress to look into a program where they will come evaluate your child for free in your home and see if he needs speech therapy.  My sister had her son go through a similar program in Idaho, and I've heard of other parents that have had children in it, but it's very hard to think of your own child going through it.  You don't want your child to go through hard things!  I know it will all work out, but it keeps me up at night worrying about if other kids will start to make fun of him or that other problems will come up.  I know it will be fine.  But if can keep Asher in your prayers, it would help things even more! 

Asher is such a goofy, energetic little boy!  He always seems to know just where my breaking point is because he'll be crazy and destroy everything, and then come and give me a hug or come pet my head.  It makes me laugh every time, no matter how upset I am!  He's a great little buddy and I'm very glad he chose to come to us!