Despite numerous colds, Matilda somehow managed to stay healthy enough that she hadn't seen her pediatrician since the last well-child check-up in March. M was highly anticipating our visit to Dr. K yesterday and did great for all the prodding and poking. Matilda always becomes so still while with Dr. K, observing her every move and soaking it all in and quietly doing whatever is asked of her for the exam. Matilda even took her flu shot like a pro, just sitting still and watching as the nurse inserted the syringe into her arm, but never cried or got upset. It was astounding to witness. As we left the office, M recounted it all many times and stated it hurt, but never really complained.
Current Stats for our big, tall girl:
Weight: 29 lbs; 4.2 pounds more than in March, 50 percentile weight for age. The extra weight seems most apparent to me when pushing the jogging stroller lately.
Height: 36"; 3" taller than March, 50 percentile height for age. This means she can now ride the kiddie coaster at Disney! Her height seems to show most in the tee shirt department as they all look too short to me recently, like mid-drift shirts.
Other random bits I want to remember about Matilda lately:
- Tim & I have clearly done a good job of providing praise and positive feedback to this kid. She is so self-congratulatory and will declare, "Good job, Matilda! Yay, Matilda!" after even the smallest achievement. She is getting really good at writing the letter M but after each one, legible or not, she will point to it and say "Perfect M!"
- She is overly concerned with everyone's emotional state recently. She'll ask multiple times a day, "Mama's feeling happy? Daddy's feeling sad?" This has been going on for a few weeks now, but this past week it has moved beyond just Tim & I and she asks about other family and friends now at random. I am somehow always compelled to call whoever she seems to think is feeling sad, as if M has some psychic connection I need to verify.
- Matilda started to sing this month. She has always loved music and we listen to music throughout everyday but until recently she would never singalong. It is so fun now to finally hear her little voice singing in the backseat or joining us for bedtime songs. Many of the songs she'll sing she knows in their entirety. It makes me feel like she's already a little type A perfectionist who wouldn't sing until she had it all worked out in her head.
- Spanish has been more and more of interest to Matilda lately. Not only does she want to know more Spanish words, but she can accurately identify when someone else is speaking Spanish. The funnier part is that she will also claim someone is speaking Spanish if she hears them speaking accented English, any kind of accent. When Martin & Kamay arrived last week, speaking British English, she immediately accused Kamay of speaking Spanish.
- She still speaks in the 3rd person. "Matilda do it by her own self" is her mantra of late.
Matilda decided she wanted to eat the white chocolate sign on my cake today and we said, "Why not?" She's been sick with a little cold and we figured anything to keep her happy while all the company was here. In no time flat she had devoured the entire chocolate piece and we are still trying to settle her for bed now, three hours later. She has been all charged up and is currently cracking up to a bedtime story Slinky Malinky, her new favorite book from Martin & Kamay.
Picking her first apple. 
Sharing a bite with Daddy. We all ate too many apples to count while in the orchard.
So happy with her haul. She was also quite pleased to see turkeys and butterflies and to pick lots of goldenrod in the orchard. A perfect outing in Matilda's mind I think. 
We capped it all off with a big cheers for delicious, fresh, unpasteurized apple cider.
Woo hoo! They did it! Congrats again, guys. Note Matilda's proximity to the action; she was really concerned with when we would finally get to eat the cake.
marshmallow-y s'more alternative with peaches, butter and cinnamon) in empty, cut beer can bottoms is if you've forgotten your tin foil. Fancy chocolate is usually best, but when camping, Hershey's is the gold standard for s'mores. 
She took a yoga painting break mid-session. 
At one point she decided that she would rather paint herself, which led to a very purple ring around the tub for our post-painting bath. 
