a week of doctor's appointments...

so this week all 3 kids had a doctor's appointment. that's a lot of money in co-pays!!! here is what is going on with them...

carter had his 6 year well appointment on monday. he is 48 1/4 inches, and 50 lbs. craig brought him, so i don't know where he was in the percentiles. i know compared to the kids in his class, he is tall and lean. he is also the only kid in his class who hasn't lost a tooth yet.

we have really been working on carter's eating habits. he has so many texture issues and i have had enough. i am back to only making one meal at dinner time. take it or leave it! also i have been using oreo ice cream as a bribe... and it works!!! so, some of the foods we have been working on don't seem like a big deal, but they are. for the love of god, carter won't eat birthday cake b/c of the frosting. anyways, back to carter's food issues. in the last 2 weeks he has tried for the first time the following foods. hot dogs, pasta (w/ butter and sauce), real chicken, cucumbers and watermelon. we have also made him eat pizza a couple of times. these all seem like basic foods that most kids love, but they are foods that carter has refused for 6 years.

our pedi gave us some great games to get carter to eat more foods... she said we could play food bingo or make a rainbow chart and have carter try to eat a new food in every color. i am planning on making the food bingo chart this weekend. i am also going to make one for mason even though he doesn't have these issues, but a little sibling rivalry may work in my favor!!!

mason has been potty trained since feb. he was doing great! and then about 2 weeks ago he started having accidents. his undies would get a little wet, like he was waiting too long. that was also around the time we stopped his naps, so i thought maybe he was just so tired. well, all of a sudden this week he started to have a ton of accidents... so i tried going back to a reward system. but it seemed like he had to go potty ALL THE TIME! yesterday we were running out to do some errands, so i had him go pee before we left. well, after a 15 minute drive we get to our first store and he says he needs to go potty. so we go, and then continue with our shopping. 20 minutes later he says he has to go again... i told him we were on our way home he could just wait. well, as i was putting the stroller in the back of the car i hear him yell in pain, says his back hurts. by the time i get to him, he is SOAKED!!! good thing i have all weather mats in my car that caught it all. i then realized he complained his back hurt when he woke up.

i called the doctor's and they wanted me to bring him in to check his urine. he was fine... no uti, kidney stones, or diabetes. all they said is to work on the reward system and to try to get him to hold it for 2 hours at a time to build up his muscles again. i am keeping my fingers crossed!!!!

and now onto miss hadley. last week i called the ENT when she got her 4th ear infection. she is so happy and content, and they don't seem to even bother her. but since mason has a history of ear infections, tubes and a speech delay, i wanted to get this taken care of earlier rather than later.

so, today she had fluid in her ears. they are not infected (yet), but she just finished her anti-biotic on sunday, and the fluid is already back. we went over the options and decided to go ahead and do the surgery and get her tubes. they want to wait until she is 6 months old, so somebody will be calling us this week to schedule the surgery. i hate the thought of it, but i know this is the best thing for her.

so, that is what's going on here!!!!