Check-ups

Just a fly by update of our check up appt this morning for Graham and Erica.

Graham is 22.75lbs and 30.5". He is hitting all his milestones as he should be. Doing great!

Erica is 34lbs and 39". I'm going to take her to a dermatologist for her eczema. We're doing all the typical things and it's just not clearing up. She also has a mole on her scalp, right in her hairline, that doesn't seem to be getting any bigger, but the dr. mentions it at each appt, so it's worth getting checked out too. I'm also going to be taking Erica and Natalie to a speech pathologist to get checked out. Erica is still pretty hard to understand by most people. I can get most of what she says, but it's hard sometimes. She just doesn't pronounce things right. Natalie has outgrown all of her mispronunciations except for her hard and soft th sounds. She still says them wrong and it's starting to affect her reading/spelling because she tries to spell words the way she says them. Like birthday is birfday and that is dat. Erica did get her hearing checked and she passed just fine. I was a little worried about that. She has the speech issues, she sits really close to the tv, she talks REALLY loud, and she makes us repeat ourselves a lot. Any of those things on their own I wouldn't worry about at all, she is 4 year old afterall. But all together just made me go hmmm. The dr. did say that there is more extensive hearing testing they can do, but to see what the speech pathologist has to say first.

It was a long appt, but the kids did great. Erica and Graham both got some shots, so they weren't happy campers at the end. And then they were out of lollipops!!! End of the world! I told Erica she could pick whatever she wanted for lunch and we'd get it on the way home and she said she just wanted to go home and eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Love her!