We trekked the girls into the city for their five year old check ups yesterday. We continue to see our "special baby" doctor who we started with five years ago. At the time, we needed a doctor that was familiar with one pound babies and all their tubes and monitors. While we aren't such a special case any more, we have earned a bit of a celebrity status at the office and feel that driving over and hour each direction is worth it. Before we could even check in, our doctor came out to the waiting room to see the girls as well as three nurses and a nurse practitioner. This is a city pediatric clinic that is packed all day long. How they remember us from year to year, I will never know.
Miss Adeline was very nervous for her appointment. Medical establishments still shake her to her core. She talked Nurse Robin out of the squeezy squeezy (blood pressure cuff) and only had to produce a height and weight. Here are her stats. . . (and a picture of her from her Halloween party at school today.)
Adeline is 32 pounds and has dropped below the 5th percentile. She is going to be petite - not real shocking news. Adeline is 3 feet 5 inches tall and is working hard to hang onto the 25th percentile for height. Not bad, considering her start. We talked about calories and growth and the consensus is that she has laid her foundation in the height and weight department. There isn't a lot we can do to change the fact that she is so tiny. Dr. McNett offered up a new Pediasure that has more calories and we plan to make the switch since it is Adeline's breakfast. She goes until lunch without anything else in her tummy.
I should note that I LOVE how tiny she is. She is so easy to hold, so cute with her mature face yet very tiny body, and best of all, she still fits! She fell asleep on me tonight. I love that she can snuggle right into my lap.
Lila Grace checked in much bigger and braver. She hopped up for the blood pressure cuff and didn't cry when getting her flu shot. That was a shocker! Lila enjoyed telling everyone that she was five and fed right into the celebrity status I mentioned.
Here are Miss Grace's stats. . .(and a picture of my current fever queen!)
Lila weighed 37 pounds! Yes, that is five pounds more than her sister. She hangs at the 25th percentile for weight and at the 50th percentile for her height of 3 feet 7 inches. All three of my girls are long and skinny! Not such a bad thing.
We left the office over two hours later. The girls were super stars since we were well into the dinner hour when leaving. Dr. McNett had nothing but good things to say about the girls. Their outcome continues to amaze me and their doctors. The girls are social, happy, sweet, loving, cute and, so far, hanging with their peers academically. Did I mention that Lila is up to 70 on her number ring!
We are so darn lucky!
