First Dentist Appointment

Today I went for my 6 month cleaning at the dentist.  Alex came along to get his first 'exam.'  There really wasn't much to it, but he paid close attention to them cleaning my teeth.  Alex enjoyed putting the little mirror in my mouth and checking out my teeth.  He also checked Baby's teeth and Billy's teeth.

I don't know if I've introduced Billy to you or not, but he is Alex's imaginary friend.  He comes and goes as he pleases.  I don't know too much about him other than he is Alex's friend and he lives close by and sometimes he gets the brunt end of things when Alex doesn't want to take responsibility for doing something wrong.

Anyway, Dr. Whiteside had Alex open his mouth and he used the mirror to look at his teeth and to count them all.  That was about it.  He did leave with a new toothbrush.  Next time we'll attempt a full fledged cleaning and exam.  Fingers crossed it goes well.  He's not a big fan of brushing his teeth so it should be interesting to see what happens.

While we were driving to the dentist, Alex told me numerous times his ear hurt.  As soon as we got to the dentist he told the lady at the front desk his ear hurt.  He's been coughing and not eating much the last few days, so this afternoon we headed to Dr's office to see what's going on.  It ends up that he doesn't have an ear infection, but the tube in his right ear has shifted around and is laying on its side.  It's still far up in the ear canal to remove it, so we'll just have to keep an eye on it.  They said he was probably felt it shifting around in his ear and that's why  it hurt.  We're going to put some ear drops in his ears for the next few days and see how things go.  Today Alexander Stephen weighed in at 38 lbs.  He really is getting tough to carry around.

While at the Dr's office we put Amelia on the scale too.  She weighed in today at 20 lbs 12 oz.  She still seems so little, but I don't understand how.  The girl can eat like a grown woman!!  Since deciding that she doesn't want to nurse my milk supply has gone down some.  I'm getting about 10 oz a day and she really needs about 16-18 oz.  I asked the Dr. today what we should be doing.  She orginally said to supplement with formula.  That killed me since neither of my kids have ever had a drop of it.  After giving me some free samples of formula she changed her mind and said go ahead and just give her whole milk mixed with my milk.  She's only got about a month until she transitions anyway.  Why does she continue to grow so fast!!  Not fast enough for us to think about having another one yet though!!