LL, no ROW

Lessons Learned

• Apollo is 38" and 40 pounds. He is small, but growing steadily along the 5-6 percentile. The dr. said I should be careful he isn't treated as someone younger than he is. That's definitely something I need to try to work on.
• There is an x-ray you can have done which tells you your bone-age. For instance, if Apollo's bone-age is 5 years, 3 months than he will always be small. But if his bone-age is younger, he may grow to a more average height. I think I'll forego the test for now.
• Query: Should you tell your kid he is getting shots before the nurse comes in with the needles? I usually tell the kids as we are waiting for the nurse to get the shots ready. Unless, they ask earlier. Like, if I say we are going to the dr. and they ask, "Am I going to have to get a shot?" I 'll say yes. Either way, they are pretty tense when the nurse walks in. The nurse and the dr. both usually use euphamisms or big words like "I'll see that the nurse has immunizations ready" instead of "shots" or "I'll come back in to get you ready for kindergarden". They always seem dissappointed when it's apparent I've already explained what exactly is going to happen (they are usually already crying). They may be crying but they're not hysterical when the nurse reveals not 1 but 3 shots, shocked that "getting ready for kindergarden" means getting poked. I think telling them what is going to happen and how many shots they are going to have is kinder than springing it on them. Am I right? Or am I just prolonging the agony?
• No ROW again this week because again Brian was gone. I think the best meal we had was waffles from the whole wheat Krusteaz mix with bacon and eggs. I did try to be thrifty/resourceful and make chili from scratch. I even soaked the beans! BTW--1 cup dried beans=2 c. cooked beans and a can of beans=~2 c. I doubled the recipe so I ended up with 2 vats of chili. Unfortunately, the kids think it is too spicy and Brian thought it was too bland, so I froze the rest and hopefully if we eat a little here and there, it'll get eaten up. It took me 2 days to make so I pretty dissappointed. All of my efforts of cooking big to eat fast later seem to be back-firing.