Dentist + Doctor

The Monday after Spencer's birthday, on a Saturday, he had a field trip and then a dentist appointment where he got his first two fillings. Below is a picture of Jared and Miles on the left and Spencer on the right watching a movie.Spencer did great. At first he did not want to walk back to the work space but he warmed up quickly and was fine. The doctor didn't put anything to sleep or give him any gas and he did great. Only once did he squirm and that wasn't very much. The doctor must have done a good job because he's willing to go back:)

Then on Tuesday he had his 4-year-old check up. He hasn't had shots since he was two and this visit he had 5! Yowzer! He was not a fan and cried like crazy until I got out a treat. I could have spread out the shots between his 4 and 5 year check ups but I wanted to get them done all at once.

His stats were:

Height: 41 1/2" 75-90%

Weight: 42 lbs 90%

BMI: 17.1

So last year when I took him in, the doctor said his BMI was high, 17 then, but still ok. This year he fell into the "too high" area. She said I could consider putting him on skim milk and watching what he ate. I liked the way she said consider but I was still not content on her advice. Finally at the end after saying everything looked great I asked her how serious she was about me putting him on skim milk and what exactly was she wanting me to do with his diet because honestly I have no concern over this child, I'm not about to put him on skim milk, and I'm okay with him having a little fat, in fact I think kids need fat (I'm not saying eat alot of candy). She agreed with me and said even though his number is in the higher range she wasn't worried. She said kids that usually fall in that category have rolls of skin over their underwear and are chubbier in general where Spencer isn't, he's just dense. In fact at one point during the check up she said, he's got the build of a football player. So there you have it. He's a dense, big boy:)

Tight Frenulum

aka tongue tied. That's what Miles had until Thursday when I took him in and had it snipped. All they did was numb him a little bit and after it was done they brought him to me to nurse to help put pressure on it to stop the bleeding. Then after awhile they checked to see if the bleeding had stopped and sent us on our way.
We weren't sure if he was tongue tied or not because he's been eating fine and growing at a normal pace but we could see the frenulum when his tongue was down. I asked the pediatrician on Monday what she thought and she said he very well could be and looked to be tongue tied but sent us to the specialist/surgeon to confirm it and see what our options were. She wasn't sure if we'd be able to do the procedure because often they prefer to do it on 6 week or younger babies because they move even less and are smaller. But when I called in and told him his weight they said he'd be fine even though he was 9 weeks.

We decided to go ahead and do it because it's a lot easier to do now versus later if we needed to. Chris had his done in college (not necessarily needed and didn't make much a difference) in hopes of helping him roll his r's. Miles was a lot worse and could've given him speech problems or may not have. Who knows but we did it and it went well and this was our boy later in the day so he didn't even have it too bad either.

And later cuddling next to dad after a long day:)

Miles stats at two months:
11.9 pounds 50%
23 in 25%
Head 30%