5 Year Well-Check

Lucas had his well check at the end of July. He had to get a few shots but didn't shed a single tear after the nurse told him "most four year olds don't even cry" and there was no way since he is now a big strong five year old that he was going to cry. He now weighs 36.5 lbs and is 41/5 inches tall.

4 Year Well Child

This morning Lucas did not want to get out of bed. He just wanted to lay there and snuggle and every time I suggested that we get up for the day he would say "just a few more minutes." Normally it is me trying to convince Lucas to stay in bed snuggling for a few more minutes but Lucas was trying to stall because he knew he had a Doctor appointment today. He was a little nervous about going after his Dad informed him that he had to have shots. I finally convinced him to get up and got him bathed and dressed but he had to be coaxed out of the house and into the car.

Once we got to the Doctor he was fine and excited to see how big he had grown. (I guess he no longer wants to be tiny.) He now weighs 34 lbs and 38 & 3/4 inches tall. After Lucas got weighed and measured it was time to go into a room and wait to be "checked out" and get his hearing and eye test for school. I was hoping for the Pinocchio room, but no such luck.

Now I am NOT usually a superstitious person at all, but when it comes to Lucas' well check appointments I am a little bit (okay a lot.) I know it sounds CRAZY but every time we get the Pinocchio room for a checkup everything goes perfect, and anytime we get ANY other room there is always some sort of issue that usually requires a referral. I am NOT joking, and of course this time was no different.

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When it was time for Lucas' eye test they tried using the letter chart. He kept trying to get closer and uncover his eyes and kept saying "I can't know that one." So next they tried the picture chart. Again he kept trying to get closer and uncover his eye and say "I can't know that." Then he flung him self on the floor and tried to hide and threw the eye cover in frustration. I mentioned that when we are at home we are CONSTANTLY telling Lucas to not stand in front of the TV. When we went back into the room I asked Lucas to read the letters off of a poster from across the room, and he kept saying "I can't know" and when he would walk up to the poster he knew all the letters. He eventually told me that the letters looked funny from far away.

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So we now have a referral for an eye doctor because it is quite possible that Lucas is near sighted. I know not the end of the world, and if he is I'm glad that we caught it early. I'm just glad that he ended up not needing shots after all, but not as glad as Lucas.

Lucas' 3 Year Check Up

In the car on the way to the doctor we had the following conversation:

Me: "We're going to the doctor so you can get a check up."

Lucas: "Doctor listen to my heart like cookie monster?" (he has a Sesame Street Doctor set)

Me: "Yes, the doctor will listen to your heart. They will also see how much you weigh and how tall you are."

Lucas: "NO! I DON'T WANT TO GO TO THE DOCTOR!!"

Me: "Why not?"

Lucas: "I Don't want to be tall. I want to be tiny!"

Me: "Ok then they will measure how tiny you are."

Lucas "Barney is tall. Daddy is tall."

Me: "You don't want to grow up and be tall like Daddy"

Lucas "NO MOOOMMMMY! I WANT TO BE T-I-N-Y!

When we get to his appointment Lucas is fine until the nurse asks him to stand against the wall so she can see how tall he is. He throws himself into a ball while I explain the tiny thing. When she asks him to stand up so she can see how tiny he is he stands up and cooperates.

Lucas is 31 lbs (which is the 40th%) and 35.3 inches tiny (20th%)

Chinese and Donuts

Today was Lucas' 18 month well baby checkup. We had the Mickey Fantasia room(woo hoo no Lion King Room for us!) He is now 22 lbs and 30.5 inches long and he is at 10% in his height and weight percentiles. The poor little guy also has teeth coming in on the top and bottom of both sides of his mouth. The Nurse Practitioner was so happy to see him growing she started to tear up. Lucas was so excited to be at the doctor again he didn't want to leave when it was time to go. Now that his PT and OT are over I think he misses having people other than us fuss over him.

Tonight we went to Curt's mom's house for dinner. She had this great idea that each time we get together for dinner we should try making different types of cuisines. Tonight was Chinese night and Curt and his mom made all sorts of Chinese dishes while Lucas and I watched. It was a lot of fun to watch them cook together and even better I got to try food I didn't cook!

Since we were having dinner with family Lucas got a special treat... powdered sugar donuts. That kid could not lick the sugar off of his donut fast enough. He kept shoving the donuts really far back in his mouth. I think the softness felt good on his chompers.