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Dear Son, Just recently, you went to the doctor’s office for your 18-month appointment.   You were two weeks away from being 19 months old, but it was the earliest we could make the appointment with Dr. Heller.   You didn’t want to stand up on the big boy scale.   Fortunately, you did sit in the baby scale.   From 15 months to 18 ½ months, you only gained 1 pound.   This bothered me, but I also remembered reading that after 15 months, babies slow down in their rate of weight, mainly because children are walking off baby fat.   In the waiting room. You grew a little… but according to the nurse, your head shrunk!   Huh?!   The doctor came back in to do another measurement.   You don’t like anything on your head, not even a tape measurer.   You cried as if someone was wrapping your head in something hot and the minute it was off, you were perfectly happy again.   The doctor said that your height, weight and head measur...

Playground at the orchard: The orchard has many different fruits growing on their lands.  In order to get people from the various places, this is how they transported us. Deanna said that she'll have to bring Burkley out here to pick Blueberries and take a picture of him.  Burkley was named after Burkley Blueberries. After picking blue berries, we went to the large playground area. At first Gregory didn't want to go through the tunnel, until  Mommy played peek a boo He loved sitting in the train.  There was a lovely breeze, he got up on the seat inside the train and stayed there for a while, just relaxing. Don't worry, Deanna is on the other side, holding on to him. From the playground area, we went in search of black berries.  At first we thought they were all picked through, but we found some gems!  The black berries ...