Well Child Checkups (a month late)

We've been a bit busy lately, so we just got around to getting the girls in for their annual check ups.  Annie got to do an eye check and everything for Kindergarten, and she got her blood pressure taken.   Ellie didn't.  She was pretty miffed about it.  Ellie helped Annie cheat on the eye exam though, by yelling out one of the shapes (on the second to bottom row) that Annie couldn't quite make out.   Looks like Ellie's vision is in good shape too.  :-)   I had to drag her down the hall another several feet to prevent her from further throwing off the results.

Everything looks good healthwise with both kids.  The doctor suggested never ever mentioning potty training to Ellie (the most stubborn child ever) and just wait for the day she comes walking out of the bathroom in underwear.  She took Ellie aside and told her she's a big girl now, and nobody can tell her when or where to go to the bathroom, that only she can decide that.  BUT, that preschool was starting soon and reminded Ellie she can't go to preschool in diapers.  Please, don't let this backfire.  :-) 

Turns out we were a bit premature taking Ellie on the Matterhorn, since she measure at 34.5" (1/2" shorter than the height requirement at Disneyland), but this is up to  4% on the charts!  (She was 2% last year).  As far as weight goes, she's actually put on 3 lbs. in the last several months and finally cracked 29 lbs (fully dressed, but still.)  This actually put her up to a whole 33% on the charts.  Of course, this all meant that her BMI went up.  According to those oh-so-accurate charts, she's amazingly overweight and borderline obese.  I would've never guessed Ellie was so grossly overweight, what with the fact she's three years old and we can't find any 24 month old pants that'll stay up on her diapered butt.  I keep worrying that when we do get her in underwear, we'll have to put her back in 18 months shorts or just put her in dresses all the time :-)  The doctor laughed when she saw the charts and said Ellie's the furthest thing she's seen from overweight, and commented on her amazingly muscular build for a girl so small -- she guessed it had something to do with the fact Ellie had not stopped RUNNING FROM ONE SIDE OF THE ROOM TO THE OTHER for the whole 20 minutes we'd been in there.  Annie also checked out great -- a bit taller on the charts than she's been before, up to 21% (from 13% last year) and her weight stayed about the same around the 65th percentile.  Annie was also tested on her ability to hop on one foot, write her name, drawing a picture of a person, and Annie threw in reading the "Medical Office Building" sign, just to show off.  My children were passed off as talented, adorable and healthy.  And nobody had to get shots.

We're done for another year.