May, Part 2

Well, that busy month is over!  It was lots of fun, but I would be lying if I said I wanted to do it all again.  Let's see, after Anna's birthday bash, Anna started out her week-of-appointments.  Before that, though, we got to welcome a healthy, 8 lb. 14 oz. new addition to the family on the 20th, baby Danny!  Jimmy is a big brother!  Danny is adorable and we can't wait to meet him.  Actually, Daddy already got to meet him while up in Boston for a conveniently-timed business trip on the 23rd and 24th.

But, back to Anna's traumatic week, because we are all concerned about that.  She went to the dentist on Monday the 20th and did pretty well.  She managed to hold herself together for most of the exam, until the dentist tried to look in her mouth.  Then the screams erupted.  She really did a good job for her first time in a strange place with scary equipment.  I was proud of her.  If that wasn't bad enough, she went the next morning for her 3-year checkup at the pediatrician!  I was very proud of her there because she cooperated for the height, weight, and vision screen and had a nice talk with the nurse practitioner.  She only cried when the stethoscope came out, and then managed to get herself back together.  She checked out good, weighing in at 34 lb. 2 oz. (80th percentile), 39.25" tall (93rd percentile!), and 15.6% BMI (46th).  For hardly eating anything compared to Erin, she is sure managing to grow!  Thankfully, she didn't need any shots, and we were out of there.

Erin had her yearly checkup at the developmental pediatrician that Thursday (the week-of-appointments continues) and managed to talk herself out of an actual exam.  He talked to us for a few minutes and then called me the next day.  Erin was on cloud nine the whole way home.  Sneaky!  We had pizza with our neighbor friends on Friday night, and Daddy got home later that night.

Last weekend, Daddy ran in a 5k early in the morning, then went to pick up a free play house that we snagged for Erin's class.  We girls went to the Y and the grocery store.  That evening, we went out for BBQ with neighbor friends, then to a park to run off energy from a dual-nap day.  Sunday, after church, donuts, playing outside, lunch, and rest, we went to Lake Wheeler to the playground, then rented a paddle boat!  You might guess which nature-loving kid had a ball and which mall-loving kid kept asking to leave.



Then we went to Matthew, Caroline, and Joshua's house for hot dogs, and we all went to Porter's Farm for ice cream.  Yum!  Monday morning was Mommy's long-awaited window-washing day while Daddy and the girls went to the Y, ran errands, and had lunch at Chick Fila.  We got out our kiddie pool and water table after rest time and played in the backyard.

This week was calmer with our usual things, Cole Day, etc.  Anna had her 3-year portraits done at JC Penney yesterday and did pretty well.  We ladies went to the pool after school and had a great time.  This year I can finally take them by myself, which is great.  Today was a failed playdate at a park after our trip to the Y...for some reason, Anna did not want to be there!  That rounds out our month.  We are looking forward to the next weekend or two of nothing planned...just trips to the pool and enjoying summer!