Gerrit's 1-Year and Kameni's 4-Year Check-ups

This last week has been a rough one. We have had pink eye and the flu for the last 10 days passed around from person to person. However, on Thursday I was able to take Gerrit and Kameni in for their yearly well check-ups. Gerrit has 12 teeth, four top and four bottom, as well as his four molars. He is currently cutting his two bottom fangs. He weighed in at 21 pounds 12 ounces and is 30 1/2 inches tall. Over the past 3 months since his last visit he only gained a few ounces, but the doctor seems to think it is due to him being so active. He doesn't hold still for nothing. In fact as the doctor was examining him, I had to hold him down because he was rolling over and trying to crawl away and everything. He is worse now that he is walking. His favorite things right now is the bathroom toilet paper...eating and pulling it out. He loves all types of food and is a really great eater. He really prefers fruits and vegetables above everything else. He is a little dare devil and I think that is why he won't crawl down the stairs backwards...he prefers to go down them head first. Our other kids have fallen down the stairs only a couple of times...Gerrit has about 30 plus times. The way our stairs are in our house, we are unable to use baby gates. I have used a barstool to block the stairs with our other kids but Gerrit has figured out how to move the barstool and go down with the stool. Sometimes it has landed on top of him. I just figured it was less harmful for him to fall by himself than with a stool. Sometimes he cries, sometimes he doesn't. It all depends how bad the fall. He loves to leap off of the couch so you have to hold him really tight. Right now he is putting his face in the water when he is in the tub. He just isn't afraid of anything. Even though Kameni is 4 now, she still acts like she is 2. She loves to be carried and always tells me her legs are broken. She is my snuggler and I love her for it. She will be starting preschool this fall and for the life of me I can't get her to write her name or anything for that fact. She tells me she is too little. She weighed in at 35 pounds 8 ounces and 41 inches long. She was average on her weight and in the 90% for her height. She loves fruits and vegetables and cheese. I craved fruits and vegetables when I was pregnant so maybe that is why she loves them. She loves to play polly pockets and loves the water. She is our little fish. She has never been afraid of the water. Two weeks ago when I took Kameni to the ENT we went to Beus Pond and I took these pictures of them for Gerrit's 1-year and Kameni's 4-year. They turned out so cute.