May 27, 2008
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Whew. I had a long weekend. I took off Friday to take the
kids in to the doctors. They were due for their annual exam, shots & what
not.We learned that Georgia is small & thin, in the 28% for height
& weight in her age group. She is ahead of her peers in learning her
shapes. The doctor was impressed with her answers to his questions. We talked about preschool & how to get into
the magnet program in town. There is an elementary school that I would*love* my
kids to attend, as it teaches all of the students to be bilingual in English &
Spanish. Which I think will be hugely valuable in the future, hell I wish I
were better at speaking Spanish after take 4 years of it myself. Apparently, there is a lottery to get into the
school, which the doctor did not win for his children. I will be putting
Georgia’s name in the lottery and praying that she wins. One thing that may
work in our favor, is that the elementary school feeds into a middle school
right down the street from us, so technically the school is in our zone. At anyrate… back to the doctor visit. We found out that Dylan is less than a pound
lighter that Georgia and 2 inches shorter. He is 94% for height & weight in
his age group, tall & heavy. I don’t think I needed the doctor to tell us
this, but it was still interesting. I
told the doctor about Dylan’s lisp that has gone unchanged for 6 months now. He
referred us to a free speech assessment group here in town that conducts
testing on kids under the age of 3 to preemptively stop speech impediments.
Then we talked about Dylan’s knees and how his left leg is turned in at the
knee. The doctor said that he would probably out grow it, but referred us to
Shiner’s to be on the safe side. I know that
he may grow out of it and still continue to have poor alignment. If there is a chance to put a brace on him
now that will prevent a knee replacement when he is in his 60’s why not?? It really made me feel better that the issues
got addressed. They were weighing on my mind. Next were the shots. UG. I hate this part. If
there is one thing that I truly HATE it is going with the kids to get their shots.
I usually make Dwayne do it. We started
with Georgia first, she had to get the shots in her arms, so I held her on my
lap and held on to her arms so that they would move. Then the two nurses whipped out the needles
& Georgia started to cry, then they plunged those needles into her arms and
she wailed like they were cutting her arms off. Then when they squirted the
vaccine into her arms there was another wail and then Mommy cried. I held her, we rocked and we cried. It was aweful, I am
tearing up thinking about it. Dylan had been sitting on the little couch alone,
watching. By this time he had slid off the couch and was standing at my feet
looking at us with concern. I am not sure
if he has ever seen me cry. Then Georgie
got a treat and moved out of the way for Dylan to have his turn. He sat on my
lap with his head resting on my chest, legs out just as comfortable as can be.
He was not afraid. The nurses whipped out the needles and he looked at both of
them as they zeroed in on his thighs, the stabbed his legs and he sat there. It
felt like hours past, but a second later they plunged the vaccine into his body
and then Dylan let out a little whimper, and that was it. Mammy cried again, if
not for me but for Dylan that didn’t cry. The picked out treats and we left.We went to Lowes & bought some flowers & garden
stakes. I also bought some tomatoes to replace the ones that Savannah crushed
chasing squirrels. The dogs gets sooooo excited chasing squirrels, I am not
sure what she would do if she actually caught one. When we got home we did a little gardening
and the kids slept. Saturday the kids
& I went yard-sale-ing, it was a lot
of fun. I found a bunch of great stuff for cheap! There was a yard sale that
had all of these Men’s clothes; apparently the man having the sale is a
clothing store manager, so most of it was new, with tags. I got my brother a bunch of button downs
& some work clothes. He really needed them.
I found some cute things for Georgia and that was about it. Sarah had
gone to free clothing give-away at a local church but apparently couldn’t get
much because there were so many people there. I also went up to Lowes & bought Dwayne an
early birthday present. A weed eater with different attachments, since it was
Memorial day, they gave away an edger attachment and I bought an extra pole saw
attachment. He promptly weeded the whole yard then cut off a bunch of limbs
that were hanging over my garden. It was GREAT! Sunday, I prepped salads & such for our
cook out on Monday. I made: seasoned hamburgers with cheese in them, potato
salad, cucumber & onion salad, seasoned corn on the cob & an ice cream
cake. We also had watermelon, as well as some hotdogs. Sarah & Ben came over, Ben wearing one of
his new shirts. He looked really good! Sarah will definitely post pictures on
myspace. Sarah’s friend Nikki, who recently moved to Kentucky, came over with
her daughter Nadia. Reece & Shuron with little Kyon came over in spite of
Shuron’s hard day with her grandfather passing on this day several years ago. Debbie from next door came over & got her
husband a plate, as he had foot surgery and is bed-ridden. Mike came over too.
Over all, it was a really nice weekend
