Kindergarten checkup

The kids had their kindergarten check up last Tuesday. It was a marathon, as usual. Each kid had an exam with the doctor, urine test, blood draw, hearing test, vision test, weight and height and 4 shots (chicken pox, polio, MMR and DTaP)! We were there for almost 2 hours. All in all, we have healthy kids, here are some specifics.

Will was 42 lbs (54th percentile) and 42" tall (also 54th percentile). His eyes/ears are fine and we're happy with how his asthma is under control. His blood and urine tests were fine, except that his cholesterol came back a little high (more on that issue later).

Xander was 46 lbs (77th percentile) and 45" tall (85th percentile). He was also normal on everything else, all his tests came back normal. I happened to mention that he is pretty stubborn and Dr. Swisher noted that on his form "behavior problem in child, stubborn and resistant". I hope the school doesn't see that and label him, expecting a little terror. He's really only like that at home, he'll be fine at school. (He won't even talk at school!)

Grace was  a whopping 36 lbs (19th percentile) and 43" (53rd percentile). Everything else on her was also fine, except her cholesterol came back high at 175. They like for kids to be 100 - 169. The doctor only sent a note about it with some pamphlets about healthy eating and exercise (which kind of offended me, since our kids do eat extremely healthy and that little girl never stops bouncing around!). They said they'd test again in a few years. However, some people we've talked to about it have urged me to be a little more worried about it. I am probably going to call the dr. this week and we may go in and talk about it more. The one thing that is concerning is that they did the test without her fasting. Adults will never have a cholesterol test without fasting, so we wonder why they didn't make the kids fast. All in all, the cause of the high cholesterol is most likely family history (Hoefs family genetics strike again!) and we will probably follow up on it this week. I'll keep you posted.  Will's cholesterol is borderline high at 164, so I'll need to talk to the doctor about that, too.

All the kids were good as gold at their appointment. They did everything as the dr. and nurse asked (although Xander was a little wierded out about peeing in a cup!) they were even super brave for their shots! Until we got to the blood draw.......Grace had a major melt-down. We (me and the phlebotomist) ended up holding her down and forcing her hand up to do the finger prick. She screamed like she was dying! It ended our almost perfectly behaved dr. appointment!

In other Grace news, she started feeling yucky Saturday night and by Sunday was fully sick. As Sunday went on, her eyes got water, red and goopy. You guessed it, pink eye! We got her some drops Sunday afternoon and after we spent 10 minutes talking her into taking them, she is on the mend. (And as you already know, she's not the best patient when she's scared about what's happening to her). However, no school for her tomorrow, which means she'll miss the field trip to the fire station.

So, that's about all our news for now. We have a fun week planned with the fire station and we're going to the Shrine Circus on Thursday. I'll post pictures of those this week!