Bad day revisited...

So back to the big girls' 2 year appointment.  It was downright awful.  Miserable.  Terrible.  Sad.  Once we were called back to the room, we made the journey down the long hallways.  We didn't even get halfway to the room and Adalyn started saying "no, no, no" and ran the other way.  Then we get in the room, both of them are crying already.  We stripped Addi down first for her temperature, weight, height and head circumference.  You would've thought that we were breaking her arm!  She cried SO hard.  When they put the thermometer under her arm, she started yelling "owie, owie!!"  When they put her on the scale, she dang near jumped from it back into Nate's arms.  So they had to weigh Nate on a traditional scale while holding her and then weigh him alone.

Meanwhile, Alivia took off down the hallway, navigating her twists and turns almost all the way out to the waiting room.  How she remembered the maze of halls to get back to Point A is amazing.  I get her back to where we need to be and strip her down.  The chaos continues.  She cries, but not quite as hard.  But she's definitely ticked off and/or scared as well.

Did I mention that Elli is joining in on the fun and screaming her little head off?  So while Nate is trying to control Addi and I'm trying to control Livi, a poor nurse had to try to console the wee one.  I'm glad we had late appointments (on Tuesdays, the peds clinic does after hours appts) so that we weren't entirely disruptive to the entire clinic!

Okay.  So we're back in the room.  All 3 calmed down and the big girls were playing.  Dr K comes in and they're both still doing great.  We talked about our questions/concerns, etc.  The doc took a look at Livi first.  She did pretty well - she just didn't want her ears looked at!  Then the doc looked at Addi.  Yeah, she wasn't happy.  Dr K knew right off the bat that she wouldn't be sitting Addi on the end of the exam table to test her reflexes!!  The child was NOT going to sit still.

So both girls got a clean bill of health.  BUT, they still had to have their shots.  Three of them a piece.  Horrible, horrible, horrible.  I thought the shots were bad when they were little.  I was wrong.  When they actually know what pain is and somewhat understand what's going on...then it's bad!  It took forever to calm them down.  To rip my heart out even more, little Addi is screaming "all done, all done, buh-bye? buh-bye? buh-bye, please?!"  Heart-wrenching.  Anyway, so they calmed down.  But you know what?  We weren't done yet.  They still had to have a finger poke to check their hemoglobin levels (I guess it's somewhat common for kids this age to be anemic?).  So in walks the lab tech and we start the screaming, crying, pleading all over again.

Whew.  Done.  We took the girls through Hardee's on our way home and bribed them with some french fries.  They deserved it.  It was a rough hour for all of us!

Anyway.  Both of the girls are 35 inches tall putting them right at about the 85th percentile.  Adalyn weighed 26 pounds even (45%) and Alivia was 27lbs 4oz (60%).  And while we were there, we had Elli weighed simply because I'm concerned about how frequently she vomits.  I swear that I am constantly feeding and refeeding her.  I feed her, burp her, she throws up, so I refeed her (because she acts super hungry), burp her, she throws up...rinse and repeat.  Luckily, my refeeding efforts are paying off.  At one month old she weighed in at 9lbs 12oz.  What's kinda weird to me is that my little Adalyn only weighed 9lbs 10oz at TWO months old!  Of course, Elli got a nice little jump start with her birth weight!

So yeah.  It was a long, tiring, painful day.  I've decided that from here on out, Elli will NOT be going with us to the big girls' appts.  And I'm actually going to schedule the girls at different times and only take one at a time.  I'll take one before nap and then one after.  I think they played into each other too much and therefore, cried even harder, louder, and longer.  Granted, the shots hurt, but there wasn't a huge need to be crying while getting weighed or even getting undressed for that matter!

Pictures to come.  And more about little Elliana...oh, and teeth, too!