She's not talking as much as her friends, or as much as most kids her age, but while the appointment started with a brief explanation of what we'll do if she's still not really talking at 2 years (hearing and speech evaluations, possible speech therapy) as we moved through the exam and V did her standard pointing, gestures and "sound effects" version of communication/storytelling Dr. G acknowledged that "she just had an entire conversation there" and said she's "not worried about her". That's a lovely thing to be able to tell myself (and others) when we get wrapped up in worry about her language development.
She was pissed about the shots and squirmed like crazy and sobbed for about 2 minutes. then we got her dressed, including hat and sunglasses, and we headed to the store:
she flirted with the nice lady in the yogurt session and babbled at her friend B (who's an old neighborhood friend of mine) who works in the meat section and always plays with her. one of our regular checker dudes said she looked like a movie star. she was calling her agent and texting her friends the whole time.
We had not a peep out of her on the subject of her legs hurting from the shots until way later, at diaper change and bath time. and even that was more an ouchy about me pulling off the band-aid (I shoulda warned her...)
I'm struck by what a neat person she is. she makes friends and is kind and gentle with her friends (and her stuffed animals, and her blocks, and every thing else in her world) and she showers affection on us and is goofy and silly and loves to laugh. we kinda scored. she's rad.
