If he had only wanted to be Frankenstein's Monster for Halloween...Abnormal skin cells zapped last Friday gave this little guy six stitches. It certainly will leave a mark. Nicholas went with him to the doctor, and when his dad asked if he was going to be okay, Nicholas replied by shaking his head, "No." But he was. And he was very brave to hear the tale told. I wouldn't know I had the girls at the pediatrician getting flu shots. They nearly cried more being put in the bucket to get weighed than they did for the shots. The good girls are up to 24 pounds 12 ounces (Alida) and 24 pounds 7 ounces (Elaine), which put them back to the 25th percentile. Normally we could care less about their growth chart, but they fell below some magic line at their 2-year appointment last summer. I guess all of the chocolate milk did the trick. And the stitches come out on Wednesday morning. Now if we could just fix Nicholas' skin, we'd be set.
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Those percentiles are stupid. They say Georgia's too little too. What do they know - I think she's a chunk! And your girls are perfect the way they are. If everyone were the same size, the world would be a boring place.
Ben stitches are so cool. Now he'll have a story to tell all his friends at school. ;)
I'm glad it wasn't some frightening accident and I hate the skin problems you guys have to deal with!
Yes, the scale was emotional for Ian at the doctor's office this summer...
The title was enough to scare me with thoughts of some playground atrocity. Hate to see the stitches, but very glad it was doctor induced.
That's a lot of stitches for a wee lad! I agree with the "chart" thing. Case in point: my 6 footer was always on the puny scale growing up (preemie, you see) and we were told that he might reach 5' 7" (only his dad cared, not me). Ha! So much for chart curves.
Joe was supposed to be 6'2". If he stretches he can reach 5'9".
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