Today Zachary and Leah went to the doctor for their standard check-ups. Leah is 29 3/4 inches tall and weighs 20 lbs, she is 30% and 22% respectively. Zachary on the other hand is in the 50% for height and weight, which are 34 lbs and 39 1/4 inches. Oh, and they got 7 shots between them, 3 for Leah and 4 for Zachary.
Okay, now to the interesting part of our day. Both Leah and Zachary were being checked out in the same room by the same doctor. Zachary was checked out first, the doctor did the normal ears, nose, throat, groin area, etc. She looked in his left ear, right ear, and found something white in there. She thought maybe it was a bit of ear wax as she was looking, and then looked more closely with the magnifying glass and said it looked like a shell. Anyhow, she finished with Zachary and Leah's checkup before trying to fish it out.
A second doctor came in to try to help pry out the shell. No luck. Zachary was struggling too much and the shell was too deep. So she called an Ear, Nose, and Throat doctor to set up an appointment. We went to the ENT several hours later, and sure enough, when the nurse looked in his ear she thought it was a shell, tiny and pearly white. She even had me look at it. Yup, a white shell in his ear.
We moved to another room where the kids got to watch Sponge Bob while we waited. The doctor came in and looked in the ear and agreed it was a shell. Now the fun part, the assistant came in and gave Zachary Valium. He can't swallow pills so she was going to dissolve it in water, but apparently it tastes pretty disgusting, so I suggested juice. She found some bright orange V8 splash, yum! It took him two Dixie cups full of juice to get that Valium down. 15 minutes later he was good and loopy and the doctor came in with two assistants to hold him down and take out the shell that has probably been there since Pawley's last June.
The doctor took long tweezers and put them in Zach's ear and pulled; meanwhile Zachary was struggling and turning beet red. Suddenly he took out a shell like a magician pulling a coin from Zach's ear. Not a piece, but a whole shell. The assistant helped us get Zachary into the car for the ride home. He was so drugged up he couldn't walk straight and he was a little chatter box on the ride home.
As you can see, the shell is on the right of the penny.
We arrive an hour earlier than expected. But, we are all ready to be at the hotel and get our suits on. The kids are hot in those long pants. We left in 35 degree weather and arrived in 80 degree weather. Yeah, we're here!
Now we are waiting to go see the pool and beach. No swimming yet. We arrived to early so our room isn't ready.
Here's the pool area and the beach is in front of that. The pool is huge. There is also a water slide in the far right corner.
All the cousins in a teacup enjoying a snack. We had to get them all ice cream shortly after. Too much running around!
Leah watching a free range chicken.
Thursday I went to Ellicott City, MD, to visit my mom, sister, and nieces and nephew. After enjoying some lunch, we went to Clark Elioak's farm. They bring and renovate old Enchanted Forest structures and put them on the grounds for kids to play on and look at. There is also the petting zoo too. At the end of the trip we even got to witness the birth of a goat. The goat in the picture is 2 days old.
The cats have found a perch they love, the baby changing table. Leah saw them sitting there and wanted to pet them, so I lifted her up. She's pretty good with them, but the cats can only tolerate so much fur pulling. Casper leaves in that case, on the other hand, Daphne fights back just enough to make Leah stop for a second. We have been very fortunate that the cats have not bit or clawed the kids yet.
Leah holding Daphne. Daphne is considerably lighter than Casper weighing in at 6.5 lbs, while Casper is a solid 8 lbs. Anyhow, Leah can hold "Daffy."
Silly kids. They love to push each other around in this cart. This morning Leah was upset because she was not involved in the action.
Another favorite activity of Leah's, reading books! We do encourage book reading in our household. In fact, we loaned out 26 books from the Library yesterday, which may only last us a week.
In preparation for our St. Thomas trip, I got these hello kitty sunglasses for Miss Leah. She looks like she is posing for the paparazzi, my little Hollywood star!
Here he is pouring beer from the bucket to the bottles. He does it this way to avoid getting sediment in the bottles. He could make Vegemite if he wanted to.
Now he is capping the bottles. He bottled 51 beers; just over 5 gallons worth. Ask how he enjoyed his first brew and he'll say it was fun, but time consuming, and sanitizing all the equipment was a pain in the butt.
Avery, Leah, and Zachary. I gave the little devils hair cuts with the new clipper set Eli got me. It paid for itself in one sitting.
When did my baby turn into a little girl?
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