Last visit with Dr. Lee

Daniel and Chris both had doctor appointments today. Unfortunately because of the change in insurance in January, it will be our last appointment with their doctor. We've really liked Dr. Lee and the office there. Hopefully when we decide on a new doctor, we'll like them as well.

Anyway, Chris's appointment was basically just a weight check. He now weighs 25 pounds, 10 ounces and is up to about 15% for weight. Apparently the vitamins are helping him, so yay! The doctor also checked his testicles again (mostly because he had decided to strip down completely naked in the examination room). She thinks he just has extra fluid around the one, but gave me the name of a pediatric surgeon to take him there to get checked out since it could turn into a hernia. So basically we'd take him to the surgeon to see how long we let it go before we do something about it.

Daniel had his six month check-up today. He now weighs 15 pounds, 6 ounces and is 25 inches tall, which puts him at about 15% for both. And if you've been paying attention, that's down from the 30% he was 2 months ago. Dr. Lee suggested that we start Daniel on the vitamins now too, just to see if we can prevent the same thing happening to him as happened to Chris. Of course, Chris went down rather drastically between 4 months and 6 months, only gaining one ounce rather than a little over a pound. So Daniel is already doing better than Chris did. She also suggested we take Daniel in to his new doctor for a 9 month check-up just to kind of keep an eye on that to make sure he's not dropping down. He also got his 2 shots and another oral immunization today. He did cry with the shots, but not as hard as he did the last time and stopped crying a lot sooner.

Both kids look happy and healthy. Chris and Alex were both a little crazy though. And not just running around the office like they usually do. Chris kept saying he needed a shot like Daniel and Alex wanted the doctor to check out his "pee pee" like she was doing with Chris and Daniel. Neither of them got what they wanted though. :)

Christmas Cheer

With all the things to be happy about with Christmas, I had a new one today. Well, it's not new as in never before thought of or anything like that, just a new one (and yet not new...read on and you may get that) for us.

Chris keeps wanting to be like his big brothers. They go play at Kyle's and he wants to go play at Kyle's. They start saying silly things, he wants to say silly things. They wear underpants, he wants to wear underpants. In fact, he keeps wanting the latter so much that he keeps saying that he wants to pee or poop in the potty just so that he'll get to wear them. I don't think he really gets the concept of how to use the bathroom quite yet, however. This afternoon as I was changing a poopy diaper, Chris decided he wanted to try to use the bathroom and stood there for a while and didn't do anything. I had to get them lunch and get Daniel down for his nap, so I didn't let him stand for too much longer and put another diaper on him and told him that after we got Ben from the bus, he could try again. He did manage to poop again about the time we were to go get Ben, so when we got back, I took him up and cleaned him off and told him he could go naked for a bit so he could use the potty. I put him on the floor, then I went into my bathroom for a bit, and when I came out, I found out from Chris and Alex, that Chris had run into their bathroom when I put him on the floor, stood on the stool by the toilet, lifted the lid, and actually peed in the potty! He was very, very excited about it and had us call his dad to tell him what he had done so he could get the appropriate praise from his dad, then he ran back upstairs to try again.

So my new thing to be happy about this season is having a kid who is starting to really show an interest in being potty trained (as much as I hate the whole potty training process with a passion), so that hopefully soon we'll be back down to only one kid in diapers.

Look alikes

So it's no secret that our children all look fairly similar. They definitely look related. Sometimes it surprises me how much they do look alike though, especially when they were younger. Take today, for example. I was cleaning out a drawer and found some old pictures with Chris when he was a baby and thought, "Wow, he really looks like Daniel." I showed the pictures to Alex and he said, "That's, me and Ben and Daniel." So it wasn't just me thinking they look similar.

Anyway, here are a couple of the old pictures of Chris. Tell me if you think he looks a bit like Daniel. (Of course, you don't see Daniel all the time, probably, so you may not notice as much.)

Family and stuff

So I thought it was interesting yesterday when I was talking to a woman in my ward and she has a son who had almost exactly the same thing Chris does. He started losing weight and not gaining, took really long naps, etc. He ended up having exactly the same food allergies and was also anemic. She said he grew out of his allergies by the time he was 3, but it took them about 8 months of tests and things to figure out what was wrong. She said for her, it was really hard when he got labeled with a "failure to thrive." Luckily, Chris never got that one. I just thought it was interesting that so many things were alike with them. Her son is doing really well now, so that's a good thing.

Daniel is 5 months now, which seems crazy to me. He's still not rolling over yet, but he will roll to his side and then roll back to the other side. And he really, really likes food. Except for rice cereal or vegetables. I did get him to eat carrots by mixing it with applesauce though. The poor kid was sick last night, but he's better today and I took pictures of him so I can get one printed out and put it up on the wall.


This is Daniel in his saucer


All 4 boys


Daniel's 5 months pictures

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