5 year well visit

This morning I took Rosie to the pediatrician for her 5 yr old check up. I wish I had taken my camera because when she had her hearing tested she looked like a little rock star in a recording studio it was hilarious.

Anyhoo, the kids is as healthy as a horse and growing big, this was said with a little cough. She is finally firmly embedded on the American charts and stands in the 25th percentile for height and the 10th percentile for weight. Barbara, who is my friend, couldn't help but giggle at those stats. She still would really like her to put on a few pounds but is no longer at all concerned as Rosie is no longer frail. Not bad for a kid labelled "failure to thrive" 4 years ago.

She had to have a blood test which came back clean and clear, ditto her urinalysis. She needed a couple more catch up shots and she is a year behind on a couple of them.

Her stats at five years are as follow:

Weight 34.75 lbs
Height 41.5 inches

Last year she weighed 30. lbs and was 39.5 inches.

I could have sworn she has grown at least 4 inches but I guess she has only grown these 2 and it just looks like a lot more when I put her in clothes that are suddenly way to short.

Barbara strongly suggested a flu shot since we are leaving on a jet plane soon and heading somewhere cold. Since both the girls
were with me she suggested we do both today. Lily freaked out. For sometime now she has been very nervous about shots and I think that since this was RoRo's visit and not hers she was 100% shocked by the idea. She totally wigged and ended up in a panic over the idea. Barbara left us alone to talk and came back a few minutes later and asked me to step outside the room. They had just received a new shipment of flu shots this week but only had one left. What did I want to do. I had already told Lily she WAS getting one and but couldn't expect her to take one when it was Rosie's visit yet I couldn't back down. I said to forget and we would go back when she had more. The nurse then came in to give Rosie her DTAP and Lily just fell apart. She cried and cried and buried her face in my chest and couldn't even look and it wasn't even her getting the shot.

Barbara came back in and talked to Lily. She told her that everyone is scared of something and that it is OK but she wants to help her overcome it. So we are going to start working to get Lily over this fear. She was truly petrified and even though she knows it is completely irrational she can't control it. I spent many many years of my life being petrified of dogs, to the point I would stop breathing until I passed out, (that only happened once) so I know how she feels and I know I have to get her through this, and I will.

Back to Rosie, she decided that she would be the 1 in 4 kids who gets a nasty reaction to her shot and her arm is really swollen, red and painful and she has a fever of 103.4 so I dosed her up with M0trin and she is asleep. Brighter days ahead.