Visiting the Doctors'

Last week Cairo went and visited several doctors.

Since day one, Cairo's hips have clicked. As a precaution, Erik and I were referred to a children's orthopedist to make sure everything was a-okay. Cairo had x-rays done and all was clear. She is just VERY flexible (future ballerina or gymnast?). Cairo also paid a visit to the dentist to get her two teeth checked out. Grandma, who works at the dentist office, held Cairo during the examination. To get a good view of her entire mouth, Grandma had to enable the much loved "upside down baby" routine. Cairo does a good job brushing her teeth (morning and night) and had healthy mouth of gums. Her third tooth (upper left) is going to pop through any day now.



Cairo made one more visit- to the pediatrician. She has had a cough on and off for a few weeks. Erik took her in to get that looked at, as well as her one year check-up (the shots will have to wait until after her first birthday and we are up north). To our surprise, Cairo had the start of an ear infection. So, Cairo has very happily been taking her pink bubble gum medicine twice a day and seems to be healing well. While we were there, we discovered that we have a baby who is starting to get really long and not so heavy. At almost one year, Cairo is 20 pounds, 4 ounces (50th percentile) and almost 30 inches long (80th percentile). Her head is huge and still up in the 90th percentile.... maybe that is why balancing isn't coming easy to her. She is still a ways from walking.