Being Saint Patrick's Day, the kids were dressed in green. Riley even allowed me to put a shamrock glitter tattoo on her cheek for the whole morning. She ended up taking it off right before swimming lessons. Devin had class pictures today, so he had to put his green shirt on over his school shirt so they could take it off right before pictures. While Devin's class was in the all purpose room for class pictures, a leprechaun snuck into his room and left green footprints all around the classroom and in the classroom bathroom. He also left gold coins in the children's school bags. I was cracking up when Devin told me this story with such enthusiasm. He said the leprechaun snuck out before anyone saw him and he was too fast to catch. They drew rainbows with pots of gold at the end and colored shamrocks as well.
Riley went to the pediatrician today for her 2 year old well check. I purposely made the first appointment of the day at 9:00 am (since we have 10:20 swimming lessons up the road.) We did not see the doctor until 9:40 which is SO frustrating. I also did not get out of the office until 10 am since they were going to give her two shots-one of which she already had at 15 months (MMR) and one I do not do (Hep A). So after waiting for another 10 minutes for the nurse to come in after the doctor left and seeing what shots she was to receive, we were able to head out without any. She is right on track with all development and her typical charming busy body self for the doctor. She is very well socialized and not shy, making it a must to stand in the doorway of our exam room so she could say hi and wave to all the nurses walking by. Riley weighs 22 lbs 6 oz and is 33.25 inches tall. She is in the 2nd percentile for weight and 15th for height. She is so tiny but I would rather her be little than a fatty mcfatterson or bulky like a boy. All kids are different and I know this. Some kids are just proportionately bigger and also healthy without being fat. Who knows if the fact that she was exclusively breastfed until 12 months and fed organic food almost exclusively until about 18 months and now eats very healthy is the reason she is so small. Devin is the same way and had the same diet and is skinny too. What would they have been like if they were bottle fed? Maybe it's just genetics? They do have their fare share of chicken breast nuggets and other things that have fat in them but as a whole they are not allowed candy, sugary juice (apple/powder made/juice boxes) or crappy snacks. They get certain special snacks (fruit snacks/graham cracker sticks etc) when we have picnics with friends and whatnot. You are what you eat, and I feel so badly for little kids who are chunky already and are having a picnic next to us yesterday and were eating McDonald's. Once your body makes a fat cell, you have that fat cell for a long ass time. Sigh. At least I am doing my part of not contributing to the childhood obesity epidemic.
On a different note, Riley's swimming lessons ended today and I signed Devin up for some starting next Monday. They will run Mondays and Wednesdays for 4 weeks. He has no fear of the water and does very well with water wings on. He can also bob up and down in a pool and knows how to kick to the side. If I did not have Riley with me all summer last year being a dare devil, Devin probably would be a solo swimmer. I just did not have the time to teach him to do it properly since Riley was always there and was too big for the floatie boat things and swimmies were a tad too big for her since she only weighed about 17-18 lbs. This summer is a whole different story. He hopefully will be diving down in the shallow end to retrieve dive sticks by the time the pools are warm enough to jump into. Three and a half is definitely old enough to be a full on swimmer so let's keep our fingers crossed that this goes well. Riley may join in his class if I like the way it's taught. The community center we go to is great and the facility is nice and clean as well. Here's to hoping it all goes well.
Being Saint Patrick's Day, the kids were dressed in green. Riley even allowed me to put a shamrock glitter tattoo on her cheek for the whole morning. She ended up taking it off right before swimming lessons. Devin had class pictures today, so he had to put his green shirt on over his school shirt so they could take it off right before pictures. While Devin's class was in the all purpose room for class pictures, a leprechaun snuck into his room and left green footprints all around the classroom and in the classroom bathroom. He also left gold coins in the children's school bags. I was cracking up when Devin told me this story with such enthusiasm. He said the leprechaun snuck out before anyone saw him and he was too fast to catch. They drew rainbows with pots of gold at the end and colored shamrocks as well.
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