Thursday, January 18, 2007

My Little Social Butterfly

Bowz went out without trying to rip apart the deck this morning!! Apparently the rabbits have moved on... I hope they never come back again, but I know they will!! All of my tries to get him a good home have been in vain... as no one apparently wants a moose in their house. I guess we'll just have to continue loving him and putting up with his little quirks and annoyances. Oh well, we'd have missed him anyway!!

Bee had her 4-year-old check-up this morning. It's about a month early, but we needed to get an apointment made with a specialist at Riley Children's hospital in Indi (she has optic glioma, which in a nutshell means she has tumors growing around both of her optic nerves) soon and they wouldn't let me make the first appointment... her pediatrician has to do it... even though she's got a diagnosis and records to prove it from AL. So we made the 4 year check up a little early so we could talk to her new IN pediatrician. We've been lucky, we've been here since last June and this was the first time she's been to see the DR. and she's not even sick. The boys have seen her because of their wreck injuries, but that's all.

Bee is 40 1/2 inches tall (75 %) and 33.8 pounds (50%). I've always made little "wagers" with my kids as they're about to be weighed at the dr.'s office. I guessed she weighed 33.8 pounds, but the nurse said 29 pounds. I was right on the dot!! I was very impressed with myself. At this weight rate she's gonna be six before she weighs 40 pounds and can move out of a five-point-harness and into a booster seat. Oh well, whatever it takes to be safe, huh!!

She was a little chatter box to everyone in the office. Her pediatrician said "Well, I see she talks very well for her age." Uh, yah, no problem there!! She's not shy at all either. While I was filling out some new patient papers, the nurse took her, by herself, down the hall to check her hearing. She went without a problem, yacking up a storm all the way down the hall and all the way back.

She's very ticklish, so everytime the dr. touched her anywhere she'd laugh and squirm. It's a wonder she actually got to do the entire check-up!! The only time Bee cried was when she found out she was getting her flu vaccination!! I had to momentarily talk her down off the ceiling, but then she calmly waited for the nurse to come in. We decided that she was lucky because she's small and so is the needle they use on her and that since Bowzer is so big, that he probably has to have a very big needle when he has a shot... whatever works huh. So, at this point, she has informed every person she has come into contact with since we walked out of the office, including those in the waiting room, that she had a shot, and that they gave her a book, a sticker, a lollipop, and a cool band-aid. That's more than I ever got at the dr.'s office that's for sure.

Well, that's my day so far... chat later everyone!!

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