1-year stats

Today the boys went to the doctor for their 1-year-old check-up. Caleb is in the 40th percentile for weight at 21 lbs. 4 oz. He is in the 90th percentile for length at 31.5 inches, and the 70th percentile for head circumference at 18.5 inches. Joshua is also in the 40th percentile for weight at 21 lbs. 6 oz. He is in the 75th percentile for length at 30.5 inches, and the 50th percentile for head circumference at 18.25 inches. We take the length and head measurements with a grain of salt, however, since it's not easy to get a baby to lie perfectly still while being measured.

Both boys are perfectly healthy, aside from a cold that they're just now getting over. They went their entire first year of life without a cold, then caught one on their birthday!

The doctor (not our usual doc) made what we thought was a rather silly comment about the boys' skin color. She said "I can tell they like to eat yellow vegetables b/c their skin is yellow." We responded, "well, actually they're a quarter Korean- that's why they're yellow". But the doctor insisted that their Korean heritage had nothing to do with this skin color. We didn't feel like arguing, but it's obvious that their skin has always been slightly yellow, long before they ever tasted a yellow vegetable. Like when they were born and Caleb was diagnosed w/ jaundice, the hospital staff was perplexed b/c his skin looked a lot "worse" than the biliruben levels indicated. Let's face it- a yellowish complexion is the only Korean feature that these blue-eyed, fair-haired boys got! And they eat just as many if not more green veggies than yellow ones. Anyway, we just thought that was a really silly thing for the doctor to say!