Words Emmie can say

At 16+ months, she just learned her name. In addition:
Yes, no, please, up, down, more, bath, shoes, socks, walk, ball, Mama, Dada, hi, bye, one, two, duck, elbow, back, toes, teeth, blue, horse, turtle, poopoo, me, tutu, thank you (sorta), baby

Hackintosh

Yes, that is a Dell Mini 9. Yes, it is running OS X 10.5.8

No, sleep doesn't work. Everything else does. It weighs 2.2 lbs.

I am Darticus!

And so is my wife (name that cinematic joke for bonus geek cred). Not
me in the pic, that is team captain, Larrold

All I had to do was post....

and the doctor's office called. ALL of Emerson's tests came back negative. She is, in our pediatrician's own words, just a "skinny little girl. Like her parents." I didn't make that second part up, either.

Clearly our pediatrician has not seen me in my Speedo.

The waiting game

For those of you who have come along with us on the Day-carousel of Infectious Diseases, we had a little bit of a scare when Emerson was in for her 15th month checkup. Her weight had actually dropped since her 1 year checkup, which dropped her off the growth charts for weight (but she was still at the 40th percentile for height). This triggered a fair amount of medical paranoia and ass-covering, so the doctor ordered several batteries of tests to be carried out. These were to rule out some pretty scary things, including Cystic Fibrosis, celiac disease (gluten allergy), thyroid dysfunction, etc.

We took Emmie to Children's Hospital where they put electrodes on her and took blood. We are still waiting for results, but hopefully will have them soon. In the meantime, she has been eating like a champ and gaining weight. Our scale puts her a bit over 19 lbs now. That's on the charts, barely.