What's up Doc?

May was a month filled with visits to the doctor and dentist for the entire family.    Dr. Baker made the comment that we were helping put his daughter through college, I guess you've seen him one too many times for that one.

We started the month with Hand, Foot and Mouth disease with Hadlee and Hays.  Harper had it November '08. (and we just thought the other two had it)   At the end of the month they were still having lingering effects of it with their finger and toe nails peeling.  (Poor Hays is still having peeling of his fingers.)    Hadlee also had two visits to the dermatologist for some irregular moles.   She started out the year with one and now she has lots.    She's fine, they are just growing and are still irregularly shaped.   

Hadlee was our first one to get a terrrible virus, so she got to get the everything looks fine, just wait it out from the doctor at day four of her sickness.   On day six of high fever, Harper comes down with it, the next day Hays and then Mommy.   It was terrible for all of us.  A positive of the two weeks of sickness was Hays no longer wakes up to "hot milk".  Yes, he now gets up and pours and drinks a cold glass of milk!   Not sure if it was Mommy being sick and they had to fend for themselves but I'll take it.   After five years of heating up a glass of milk for two minutes in the microwave then a little boy wanting everything perfect....he can make his own milk!

I had made well child checkups back in March so we went to those eventhough we had already seen the Brenham Clinic three times.   The kids stats are:

Hadlee-   51 pounds;  46 1/2"
Harper-   46 pounds;  46"
Hays-   49 1/2  pounds;  47"

Hays is just barely tall enough to go down big slides at swimming pools. (you have to be 48 inches)  He's got to slide down the big yellow slide at the Aquatic Center.   He tries all the time and sometimes he slides and other times he walks down the stairs.  He had the same luck at Palm Beach last weekend.   It just depends on the lifeguard.  Hadlee got to go down the slide one time and poor Harper.....maybe next year.

We also had dentist visits for all three.   We went to a new dentist and they took all three back at the same time.  I enjoyed 45 minutes of magazine time with no interruptions.  The only time I perked up was when I heard "Ashley and Cara" talking with each other.   When I was getting the A+ report on all three, the dentist shook his head and said, "Wow, you have your hands full."     (wasn't that saying for when they were younger)