Next year, I won't schedule the kids' annual checkups for the first week of December.
I didn't do it this year. Initially, I scheduled them in October (I hate to schedule them while the weather might still be nice. Who wants to mess up a beautiful day with a well-child checkup?) But then the doctor was out of the office and we thought maybe we had chicken pox briefly, so they got rescheduled until now.
It's amazing how much of the week a simple checkup can eat up. (Well, OK, three simple checkups. Duchess is on the off-year.) My hat is off to mothers who must do regular doctor and therapy visits.
It's also amazing how differently different children react. The conversations went like this.
QOC: Deux, we're going to go to the doctor this week. He's just going to check you to see how you are growing. You don't need a shot or anything this time. There's a really fun car rug in the waiting room.
Deux: Nooooo! I don't want to. Do we have to go?
QOC: Dash, we're going to the doctor this week. You're going to get a shot, which means the doctor will poke you with a needle that will help keep you from getting sick. It will hurt.
Dash: Yay! I love getting shot!
However, we all survived. I actually really like taking the kids to the doctor, because I really like their doctor, who is very sensible and similar in philosophy and had four kids of his own (some time ago, I would guess). We swap book and movie recommendations. He always makes the boys laugh. (Dot pulled a princess and refused to be amused.)
Dot continues to insist that she never got her shot, that it has been indefinitely postponed. Perhaps she was disappointed that it did not, as she had hoped, turn her teeth pink.
Anyway, adding to that a dinner party, two playdates, the usual shopping, a couple of extra necessary trips out, and the beginning of Advent, and trying to keep on track to finish school in time for Christmas break, and it has been a very long week. At least this week we don't have to go to the doctor. I hope.
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If and when Princess Dot does get the shot that turns her teeth pink, please promise that you will post pictures!
I hope you have a peaceful week.
I foolishly set up all the well child checkups and the adult physicals over the summer "when we have time." Doh! I won't do that again, a whole week of summer wasted!
We have three kids in regular therapy, and had two with other doctor visit intensive issues this past year and it does stink in the beginning, but you adapt and God provides.
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