Alison had her 18 month checkup yesterday. For the most part, things are great. She's weighing in at 23 lbs 5 oz, which puts her in the 45 percentile. She's now a whopping 32 inches tall, in the 50 percentile (but her legs are still too short for most of her pants!!), and her head circumference is holding steady at 18 3/4, unchanged for the last 9 months (yay!), so it's now in the 90 percentile. The doctor was very impressed with her vocabulary. He said he could tell we read to her.

As seems to be the case with just about every checkup, there is good and there is bad. This time, at least, we were aware of the "bad" ahead of time. We noticed the other night that Alison seems kind of "crooked" when she walks. It's not real noticeable when she has her clothes on, but when she's in just a diaper you can see that her spine kind of curves a little bit. For once, the doctor didn't get all freaked out and start ordering x-rays and things like that. He thinks it's probably something that can be handled with PT/OT, but is comfortable waiting to see what her Dr. Barr thinks when he sees her next month. He's planning to call him and give him a heads up, though. He checked her out thoroughly and said her legs and hips/pelvis look to be good and straight and we've all come to the conclusion that her right foot turns in because of muscle weakness in her ankle and not because she's bowlegged.

We're to keep her on Pulmicort twice a day until the middle of April and then drop her back to once a day for a week and then stop it completely and see how it goes from there. Hopefully everything will be fine and we'll be done with that for good.