Posts Tagged ‘doctors’
Back To School
I can’t believe it is time to get back to school. The summer just flew by. Will started school on Monday, and Madison starts tomorrow. We just made a few tweaks the last week or so to get the kids ready for school. The first thing I did was take the kids in for doctors appointments and eye doctor appointments. It is very good that I did that because that’s how we found out Will needed glasses! We also picked up new clothes for school (or for Madison – uniforms). We made sure everybody’s shoes fit — Madison went from a 13 to a 2.5 in gym shoes!!!! Her dress shoes I had to buy with about 1 month left of school, so thankfully they still fit. We’ve also moved their bedtimes earlier and have gotten them up earlier in the morning. Another thing is school supplies. I luck out that I can order them right from Madison’s school in May, and we picked them up 2 weeks ago at Book Bill Day. However, for those other things you need (like emergency contact cards, allergy cards, play date cards, academic planners, etc), you can check out Tiny Prints. They have such great quality items, and I’ve loved everything I’ve ever ordered from there.
How do you plan for back to school time? Any tips you’d like to share?
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Headboards and Physicals and More
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Yeah, it’s been one of those days. It is about 85 degrees in my house and the kids had doctors appointments today. No worries though, it was just school physical time. Madison weighed in at 60.6 pounds and she is 49 1/2 inches tall. (We are going to Great America in a couple of weeks, so I am going to have to check out what rides this will allow her to ride. My mom is a little worried, because Madison only has about 11 more inches to grow to be taller than her!). This year they gave us her BMI reading which is 84%. Healthy weight is 5%-85%, so she just made it under the wire. However, if you’ve ever seen Madison, you’d know how thin she is, so I’m just like whatever with the BMI thing. Will is 40.4 pounds and 42 inches tall. His BMI was 52%. Needless to say, we aren’t worry about the BMI. Unfortunately, Will ended up with 2 shots. It was that or he’d have to get 5 come kindergarten. I choose 2 today and next year he’ll get the other 3. Poor kid.
And that leads us to the headboards part of the title of this post. Bill and I have been talking about when we move Will out of his toddler bed. The first thing you have to take into account is that his room is only 9′ x 11′. He has no closet. I would also like him to be able to play in his room. Of course, that does not give us a whole ton of options. Right now, the toddler bed works. However, if he keeps growing like a weed, it won’t! I am thinking that headboards for full size beds or even king headboards, just aren’t going to work in his room. The kicker is that with his crib, we actually have the full size headboard. Honestly, I am thinking we will just have to check out moreheadboards.com and find a twin size headboard and then get him a new mattress.
How long to you wait to move your kids out of their toddler beds? What size bed did you move them to? What size bed would you think I should get for him considering how small that room is?
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Prilosec OTC Giveaway!
This giveaway is now over. The winner is abitnerdy. Congrats!
I rarely get heartburn myself — only when pregnant or if I eat cocktail sauce. However, ever since Bill had food poisoning, he gets it quite often. If you can believe it, he even gets heartburn from water (I still can’t figure that one out). One of the ways his doctors have controlled it is Prilosec.
Since this is product known and trusted in our home, I wanted to pass along a great deal and a great giveaway to you all!
For the great deal: Buy two 42-count Prilosec OTC products in a single transaction and get a $25 gift card!
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