Well child visit (15 mo)

Rose is still growing right on track! (We had her 15-month doctor's appointment on Monday.) She has definitely learned to associate the doctor's office with pain, however - getting cathed during her kidney infection will do that! - and having 3 vaccines and a blood draw today certainly didn't help the matter. Poor girl. Good thing she only has a couple more shots at 18months and then she'll be DONE for awhile!

Two months
weight:  12# 6.4 oz (85th %ile)
height:   23.5"  (86th %ile)
head:    15.5" (66th %ile)

Four months
weight:  15# 10oz (86th %ile)
height:   26"  (95th %ile)
head:    16.75"  (85th %ile)

Six months
weight:  17# 7oz (78th %ile)
height:   27.25"  (93rd %ile)
head:    17"   (72nd %ile)

Nine months
weight:  19# 9.6oz (65th %ile)
height:   28.75"  (87th %ile)
head:    17.5"   (66th %ile)

Twelve months
weight:  20# 9.6oz (61th %ile)
height:   30.5"  (89th %ile)
head:    17.75"   (55th %ile)


Fifteen months
weight:  23# (70th %ile)
height:   32.25"  (91st %ile)
head:    18.25"   (67th %ile)

In other news, I'm hard at work on BALANCE again. It seems like a pretty constant theme in my life, especially in the last year or so. And every time I think I've addressed it, I must get complacent or something because it comes right back up again!

Recently work has been taking over my life. I love my job for so many reasons, but I don't love the fact that I get about 20 emails per hour, that all my peers are checking emails at all hours of night and day (so it feels like the expectation that everyone do so), and my "to do" list is never ending.

Monday I left work an hour early for Rose's doctor's appointment, so of course it was fine that I was sending emails for about an hour and a half at night after Rose went to bed. The struggle I'm having is about all the other days that I'm at work by 6:30 or 6:45am, I'm seeing clients or in meetings every hour until 4pm, and I still come home with a laundry list of things that need to be done before the next day.

I'm building more "admin" time into my schedule, so I'll actually have time to do the work that comes up in the meetings.  I'm optimistic that will help once it eventually goes into effect. I'm also trying to be gentle with myself since I haven't exercised in about a month and I haven't had any time for quilting/baking/blogging either - yet I also know how important it is to do those things!

If only there were more hours in the day - or if only I could get by with fewer hours of sleep each night! Sadly, I have to accept that I NEED eight hours of sleep per night, or else I get sick within a couple weeks. So how do I get my sleep, and also meet my other needs, such as hobbies and exercise? Because I'm learning that those truly are needs - I can't just work and do the basics at home (groceries, dinner together), but I also NEED time to turn my mind off and relax.

I think I'm going to turn my work email off on my phone. While I like having it constantly available, it also ends up creating more work for me since I read the email once on my phone, then have to read it a second time when I finally get to a computer to type out a response (I hate typing on my phone, and my phone is also not letting me send any reply emails for some reason). Hopefully the combination of that and the built-in admin time at work will allow me to do some hobbies after Rose goes to bed (instead of more work), which will then help me sleep more restfully, which will then allow me to actually exercise in the morning (instead of sleeping in or obsessing about emails already), which will then have additional positive effects going forward.

Sigh. All I want to do is be healthy and balanced for myself, AND to set a good example for Rose.

At least Rose makes sure I slow down each night to savor milk cuddles and bath time. :)