St Patricks Day

Elektra had her 3 year well check up appointment the other day.  It took awhile because the DR's office required that her Tri Care insurance contact them to let them know that they could care for her. What a PITA it turned out to be.  But between Leonard, Michelle and I going round and round, we finally got it all figured out, and she was able to be seen.  

We waited over an HOUR for her to be seen.  I was listening to other parents while in the waiting room, and it seemed as most of them were unhappy with the continually LONG wait times.
  Also, the waiting room had nothing for children. NOTHING!  I don't know if its just Florida dr's or what, but the several we have been to, do not provide toys or books for children to keep them occupied.
 Its very frustrating. 

Our Dr in AZ had the entire waiting room child friendly and the back rooms.
Pretty paintings on the wall, lots of toys and books.
That way if you did have to wait, the children weren't so bored!
And rarely did we have to wait long.
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 Once they took us back we waited another 20 minutes.  In a childs world, that might as well be an eternity.  So, I got out my pens and we colored on the paper that covers the table. Elektra blows me away with her abilities! I would draw a heart, then she would draw a heart. I drew a flower, she drew a flower. Her small motor skills are so developed! Basically, if you show her how to do something, she will try and do it, and most of the time, she does it wonderfully!

Anyway, other than the long wait, her appt went well, and the DR feels that she is on target with everything. She is in the 51% for her height, and 5% for her weight.  Which is just fine. She is a petite little girl, but very healthy. (all my kids were always in the low percentile for weight and height.)

We had a wonderful St Patricks Day.  I put a 3lb Corned Beef in the crockpot with lots of veggies.

Although next year I need to double the size of the beef.  It was devoured!

Then we had a GREEN themed night. Pretty much the rest of dinner was GREEN.

Mike made him and I a GREEN beer. The kids had GREEN sprite.

I made a salad with only GREEN things like GREEN grapes, cucumber, GREEN onions, GREEN tomatoes and GREEN apples. We made the applesauce GREEN.

  For dessert we made GREEN vanilla milkshakes and chocolate chip cookies with GREEN frosting.

We had so much GREEN food dyes that I'm sure our insides are permanetly GREEN.

I knew the kids liked Corned Beef, but I had no idea how much. Zachary had 3 helpings!

We had leftovers of the veggies, but none of the Corned Beef.

On Friday Frank and Dave came over for the long awaited birthday dinner. 

Every time they were to come over, something else came up. Or down. Like the big rain storm last week. 

We had a wonderful evening! We had a nice dinner of lasagna and then they all played Wii.

Bro got Caleb some Jet plane lights.  Caleb as you know LOVES jets!

Christina got a box with a moon and a star.  We just gave bro some cash.

Caleb loved his lights so much he couldn't wait to hang them up.

So Mike strung them across their room.

Very cool present! Caleb wants them on every night. They are now his night light.