12 Month Check Up.

Jack had his 12month check up on Friday. He got a stay of execution on the shots until the 23rd - since he wasn't technically a year old we had to wait! John lucked out on missing that part of the visit! The boy got a clean bill of health once again! He is now 30 and 3/4 inches tall (up from 30 and 1/4 at nine months) and weighs in at 23lbs 6.6oz (up from 21lbs 14oz at nine months). The new stats put him in the 75th for height and 50th in weight (down from the 95th and 75th respectively) so there has been a slight decrease in the growth rate, but our dr. assures us there's nothing to be concerned about there! So, maybe all the predictions of Jack being taller than me by Kindergarten will be wrong after all!!
We got the okay to turn his car seat around so Jack is now riding forward facing and loving it! He thinks it's great to be able to see out the windows, but more importantly to be able to see us! He got the go ahead to drink real milk and so far it hasn't been a huge hit. He will, however, drink it from a straw so we're having a little success with that.
Not to much to report on our end... Uncle Ben came over on Sunday for lunch and Jack had the best time reading the paper with him (he was trying so hard to be just like Ben - so cute!!) and Sunday night we had dinner at Carole and Doug's where Jack learned how to go DOWN the stairs!! That was a big accomplishment - of course it's brought the fascination back into the stairs so we've been doing a lot of up and down over the last two days...
As for the week ahead, Jack's b-day celebration of course!! John's taking off work on the Big Day (Friday) and we're going to go get Jack's pictures taken and then of course Sat. is the big party... We'll have all the details next week! Check the photosite for some updated pictures!