It's My (Pity) Party And I'll Cry If I Want To

I hate going to get my annual “women’s exam”, it is unpleasant, but it was especially unpleasant this year.  With my somewhat recent diagnosis of POF it was yet another hard dose of reality seeing all the pregnant gals in the waiting room, thinking that would have been me if things had went as planned.  To top things off I had to schedule my first bone density test at age 32.  Talk about feeling old. 

I also had to update my patient records, I was not sure if I was supposed to mark the check box for age of menopause, I had to list HRT on my list of medications and when asked when my last period was it was hard to recall.

Let’s just say I am glad this only comes around once a year, hopefully my pity party will be over soon.

I Heart Hawaii

Nate and I always hoped we would get the opportunity to take an amazing trip for our 10 year anniversary, well on our next anniversary in January we will have been married ten years.  While celebrating my tenth anniversary makes me feel a little old and also makes me realize that time goes way too fast I could not ask for a more perfect way to celebrate or a more perfect guy to celebrate with.  In just four short weeks we leave for a 10 night stay in Hawaii.  Fortunately, Nate was given the opportunity at work to travel there for a project, while I would not normally even consider tagging along to places like Texarkana or Minneapolis you don’t have to ask me twice when it comes to Hawaii.  Nate will spend about three days working on his project and then we will spend another week kid-free in paradise.  I am a little nervous though as this is by far the longest, both in time and distance that I have ever been separated from my boys and I know I will miss them so much.  But I know they will be in great hands and will have a blast visiting grandparents in GB, which in their book is just as good as Hawaii.

Life Lesson: Don’t Put Small Objects Up Nose

As I do every day when picking the boys up from school I look over their info sheets with all the important information regarding their day, what they ate, how long they napped, any injuries, bad and or good behaviors, activities they did, etc.  Taped to Carter’ sheet yesterday was a small black bead, I was a little curious but to be honest he often brings home interesting things he finds or makes throughout his day.  As I continued down the sheet I also noticed a great deal of writing in the notes section.

“Carter stuck a small bead in his nose.  He was able to get it out by blowing his nose several times.  He said he found it and stuck it in this nose... he was scared, but it finally came out and he was fine."
 
Lesson learned.

I hope so.

Five Year Milestones

Where should I begin, as always Carter was his usual talkative self at his five year check up, asking the doctor all sorts of questions.  What do you use that for? Why are you doing that?  Will I have to get a shot?  (He asked that last one like ten times and did not like the answer much either.)  He put on his brave face and did great until right before the nurse went in for the kill, then all hell broke loose.  He was however very excited to learn that it will be his last shot for a long time, I figure I would wait until later to tell him that he still has to get his flu shot come fall.  He was also elated that he is now ready for kindergarten, now if there only there was a shot to help me get ready!

 Since birth Carter has been at or near the top of the growth charts both in height and weight and he is still holding strong in the 90th percentile, at 48 pounds and 45 and ½ inches tall.  A few other milestones…

·  His two middle, lower teeth are loose, get ready tooth fairy it won’t be long now
·  He has started the process of learning to ride his bike WITHOUT training wheels
·  His writing is getting better all the time
·  Can count to 100 with a little help
·  He tells very detailed and amazing stories
·  Is becoming more independent
·  Has significantly decreased his napping, which was legendary, sometimes three to four hours on the weekends
·  Has become more helpful around the house
·  He still has his temper and we are working on the bouts of whining
·  He is a very good big brother