The Campbell Family: April 2009

Friday, April 24, 2009

Grace and the Dentist

Wow, how do I start. Well last August, being very pregnant, I took Grace to a pediatric dentist. To make a long story short... They ruined the whole dentist experience for her and we will never go back there. If you live locally I will tell you do NOT go there. So today, we braved a new dentist office. She is so scarred that after an hour, we came home without getting our teeth cleaned. This pediatric dentist was much calmer with her today but she still freaked out. It seems that she is scared of the rotating brush they use to polish your teeth. Grace who held a caterpillar yesterday, jumps in the pool and swims halfway across it, who is my diva on stage is scared of the dentist. So it seems that we will continue to have appointments with the dentist until she can get used to the idea of someone going in her mouth. Tom has an appointment in about a week and I am going to send her to see the dentist clean Daddy's teeth. She seems to have a lot of the same anxieties that he does - dentists, weather, germs. I will see if I can get an appointment too. Until May 22 - the next time she goes to the dentist, she has to work on not sucking her thumb(again - thank you heart surgery) and getting used to mommy using the rotating toothbrush.... If y'all have any hints PLEASE let me know.

Lily at 7 months

Here are her stats to go along with her pictures below. She is weighing in last week at 16 pounds 11 ounces - probably closer to 17 pounds now. She eats very heartily, we can't seem to keep that belly full. She is sleeping much better at night, now that I don't have to wake her for her meds. She usually falls asleep around 10 and sleeps until almost 8. When we went to the Cardiologist on the 15th he thought that I was crazy for being so regimented on the medicine... Um hello the hospital told us every 8 hours as the doctor there prescribed. He said to relax, that it was possible that she didn't even need it anymore. Good thing since I forgot to give her a dose yesterday afternoon. She should be completely off of it by July. As for the Prevacid... I don't know, we still have good low spit days and some vomit days - the last was when we introduced peaches. She only has two more first foods to try - carrots and prunes (yuck to both). We are hoping to move to the less expensive powder formula... we'll see how that goes. She loves, loves, loves her exersaucer and bouncing herself on your legs. We are looking for a johnny jump up this weekend. She still loves her sister best of all. The first picture from yesterday is the only one she is truly smiling and that is at Grace. We are still working on the nap thing .... maybe we will get a routine one day. She is definitely a social butterfly and has enjoyed her many outings in the last month. We are looking forward to the beach this summer, Grandma Terry's house this summer and Disney for her birthday in September. Her heart stats were all so good including the holter monitor she wore a month ago that she doesn't have to go back to the cardiologist until AUGUST! For those of you who know stats - heart rate averages 130 beats a minute, oxygen level 100%, BP 92 and she is steadily growing they didn't even do a echo. I still have to count heart rate, but I feel better knowing that when she was wearing the monitor the highest reading was 151 beats a minute and I know she was screaming at that point. So all is good here - back to eating and growing with some sleeping interspersed in there.