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May 30 2011

Not Bad for a Doctor’s Office (One Year Later)

“This is the worst (day/night/car ride/etc.) ever!”
— A Lucy “go to” quote when she’s not having fun.

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The kid was feeling a little under the weather so we made a visit to the doctor. (She’s feeling better now.) While meeting with the doctor, she brought up Lucy’s records and was surprised to discover that we’d brought the kid in exactly one year earlier, to the day.

When I got home I checked the blog and sure enough, I’d made a post about our previous visit.

Lucy’s favorite part about visiting the doctor is the neat “waiting area”, a little playground with a pirate’s motif. Here are a few pics of of Lucy playing. Pics on the left are from last year, pics on the right from this past weekend.

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Once we were called in to see the doctor, the experience went about as well as one could expect, much better than our visit one year before. Lucy got her measurements taken:

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…and got a ‘Princess’ sticker and lollypop for her trouble.

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By mike • by Mike, The Kid, Time Capsule • 1 • Tags: , , , ,

May 30 2010

Not Bad for a Doctor’s Office

The kid had a doctor appointment on Friday. Though it wasn’t a great day for her, it was made slightly less stressful when she discovered the cool pirate ship playground that was located right outside the doctor office.

The kid loves it when her parents tell her pirate stories (usually starring the kid as the captain and Wubert as her fuzzy first mate.) Imagine her glee when she saw this “real” pirate ship!

Yes, she ultimately did have to see the doctor and yes, there was a bit of crying involved. However, before and after the appointment she got to roam the seven seas in her pirate ship, a much better prospect than sitting in a cold sterile office for an appointment she didn’t really want to keep anyway.

She also got to ride three seals, (whom she dubbed “Larry”, “Daisy”, and “Mickey Mouse”) point out starfish and crabs, follow footprints in the sand, and do a lot of climbing, jumping, and running around. Not bad for an afternoon at the doctor’s office.

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Sep 1 2008

Language explosion

Lucy had a semi-annual checkup recently, at which her doc mentioned that she would be having a ‘language explosion’ in the next 6 months.

Lucy must have really taken what her doc said to heart, because that afternoon, she began talking in a different way than she had. Not so much her usual lazy ‘eh, eh, eh,’ and point, she started adding ‘doodle diddle womble wah…’ and making more of an effort to get some cool sounds out there.

She already has her stash of useful words that we recognize (‘mam,’ ‘dad’, ‘yeah,’ ‘cat,’ ‘dug’ [=dog], ‘gamaw’ [=grandma], ‘gampaw’ [=grandpa], ‘yum,’ ‘dat,’ and the like) and has been adding to them rapidly these past few weeks since she got the doctors orders. New words I’ve noticed include, ahem, ‘boob,’ ‘gookie’ [=cookie], and ‘denku’ =[thank you]. The words are getting a little more complex than before…

‘Gookie’ reminds me of a book both her daddy and I loved when we were kids, ‘The Hungry Thing,‘ in which a hungry thing comes to town and asks for various things, but uses rhyming nonsense words, so a little boy has to translate for him. (Here is a great primary school website about this book.)

Until I get some good talking video to add to this post, that will be our blog photo. And maybe we will let her handle one of our fragile copies of that old book!

p.s. she did really well at the doctor this time,  a lot less crying, she is growing up, my big girl!

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