Ashton's Stats

Ol' Ashton had his 4 year old appt today and he is still small... not alarmingly so, but compared to his brothers and his parents he is the small fry of the family. He continues to grow but his percentiles go down a bit each year- his doctor is not concerned and said he looked great. The doc gives the height prediction at 5'10". However, he (and I) both think that he will hit a late growth spurt. I will go ahead and throw out my prediction that he will hit 6' based on my brothers (especially Zach) were never the tall guys growing up, but they are both over 6' 2" now.

As you can see below

Height- 39.75" (38%)

Weight- 33.2 lbs (26%)

And just for fun, Hunter's stats at 4 were - height 42.75" (93%) and weight 42 lbs (89%). Hunter hit the 33 lb weight mark at his 2 year old check up... ha ha, talk about different genes!

Another thing about the appt that made me chuckle was on one of the vaccination sheets they give you. Ashton got 2 shots today (though in my opinion it is really 4 since they combine the MMR and chicken pox into one shot and they combine the DTP and polio into one shot.) That sure does sound like a lot of disease (live or not) running around into a small system... anyway... some may remember that Ashton got a bad rash on mostly his face from the first round of the chicken pox vax. I would call it a small case of chicken pox though most doctors say it is not the actual chicken pox.
I thought this side effect was humorous.

Doesn't that "mild rash" that is potentially contagious kind of sound like something? Oh yeah, CHICKEN POX. Love the way doctors word things.

Anyway, Ashton did a great job. He did cry over the shots and whimpered over the finger prick but he did everything the doctor told him to do and politely answered his questions. Hopefully, over the next year, we can pack some meat on those bones of his and keep those percentiles from falling.