A Good Dose Of Sunshine

The kids had their yearly physicals last week and it seems like the sunshine in Hawaii has done them some good.  They both grew about 3 inches and gained about 5 pounds.  Esme was 60th percentile for height and weight at 41 inches and 39.6 pounds.  And that projects her to be about 5'4" to 5'5" as an adult.

Chan apparently did all his growing up front and so hasn't changed in his height since his 18 month visit.  He was still 33 inches which puts him at 25th percentile for height and 28 pounds which put him right in the middle at the 50th percentile.  I'm thinking he's due for another growth spurt soon then.

Both kids were meeting all their milestones and got good reminders from their pediatrician to eat healthy, be active, limit tv, etc.  This was the first visit that Chan didn't cry either which was nice.  It also helped that neither kid had any shots to get.  Esme can't get her routine 4 year shots until the fall because of some of the medications she took for her Kawasaki's.  The shots have to be at least a year after receiving the IVIG so we'll wait until flu shot time to get her kindergarten shots.  Chan just had to get his iron checked at the lab afterwards and that was a different story.  He actually did good for the first few seconds but when they had to wait for the blood to slowly fill up the tube then he started to cry.  He didn't fight though so that made it sort of easier.

It helped to have Esme got first so Chan got to see everything that was going on.

Afterwards he had to get a blood draw at the lab.

That really wore him out and he crashed in the car afterwards.  He refused to move his arm also.

My little goofballs!