The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

brusha brusha brusha

Monday we made a trip to the dentist!  While this was not Spencer’s first trip (thanks to him previously “busting open his whole mouf“), it was his first regular cleaning.   He’s almost the exact same age as Maxwell was on his first dentist visit. Both boys did GREAT. The dentist even complimented them on being such sweet boys.  Yay!

Maxwell had to get some x-rays…

dentist

and then showed Spencer just what to do in the chair…

dentist

dentist

and they both acted super sweet for the hygienist.

dentist

dentist

We got great reports from the dentist…

dentist

dentist

and were happy to get treats when done!

dentist

Happy for good dentist reports!

Time for your checkup!

Happy Monday!

Spencer had his 2 year checkup on Friday and all looks great!  He’s 30.2 lbs (75th to 90th%) and 35 1/2 inches tall (75th to 95th%).  Compared to his 18 month checkup, he’s grown 1.5 inches and gained about 3 lbs in 6 months.  He’s definitely starting to slim out and not be *quite* so chubby baby.  🙂  He’s much bigger than Maxwell was at 2 years – Maxwell was 26.4 lbs and 34 and 1/4 inches.  However, much like Maxwell at his 2 year visit, Spencer wasn’t exactly a happy camper when he had to take off his shoes and pants…

2 year checkup

Ha! such a fake, pitiful cry.

He’s been on Singulair for 6 months now and we’ve had virtually no issues with breathing/wheezing since he started so we’re going to keep on that track. He’s definitely delayed on expressive language (talking) but we’re taking him to speech therapy every Friday and he’s making great progress.  I’m not concerned about him – he’ll be chattering up a storm before I know it.

Once we got the look over from Dr. Walley and the flu mist, we were out of there with sucker in hand!  All smiles then!

2 year checkup

Thankful for good doctor reports!

Time for your checkup!

Maxwell had his 4 year checkup yesterday with Dr. Walley and all looks great!  He’s 40.25 inches tall (75th – 95th%) and 33.2 lbs (50th – 75th%).  Here’s his 3 year stats. For comparison, Spencer weighs 30 lbs right now!  ha!  But, as Dr. Walley said, Maxwell has really slimmed out and is a long and lean little boy now, not a chubby toddler.  I can vouch for that as there’s not one ounce of fat on Maxwell!  We had to wait for just a bit but I loved getting to chat with my buddy…

4 year checkup

doctor checkup

and then we loved getting a good report from the doc.

4 year checkup

He got the Flu-mist but thankfully no shots this time.  Hooray! Always thankful for good doctor reports!

Speaking of doctor reports, we got a peek at BB3 at the doctor a week ago.  It was my 20 week ultrasound but I was already 21 weeks.  The baby looks great and measured right at 21 weeks and 3 days.  Perfect!  All it’s parts are in place and growing – including some parts that we didn’t peek at!  🙂  Still going to wait until the end of January to know blue or pink!

baby brown 3

And I know it’s hard to see but s/he is holding up a little #1 finger here!

baby 3

Do you think it’s a girl trying to tell me she’s going to be the first baby GIRL Brown? There’s a chance!  🙂

In final doctor news, Spencer has no doctor news. Phew. Those hives are still lingering on his legs but are slowly going away. Hoping he stays away from the doctor until his 2 year checkup next month! 

See you tomorrow!

Rough week

While Maxwell has been on a high this week after all of the birthday fun, Spencer has been having a bit of a rough go!  It all started with a mild fever on Friday.  Not enough to slow him down but just enough to wear him out.  Then, at the birthday party on Saturday, he just got overtired, overheated and overstimulated and, unfortunately, spent much of the party doing this…

cranky

But, he took a great nap and seemed to be fine that night. The next day on Sunday afternoon, we got to go to a fun party at Jack’s house and the boys had a blast even if they were on clean up duty!  🙂

jacks house

Don’t worry, they were given pizza in exchange for their hard work.  😉

jacks house

We did learn that Spencer unfortunately has the same reaction to mosquito bites as I do!

mosquito

See under his left eye? It just kept swelling and growing.  By the time we got home, it looked like this…

eye mosquito

Poor buddy. He was acting fine though and slept all night with no issue. On Monday morning, he kept sleeping and sleeping and so I finally went into his room at 8:00am to wake him up only to find him COVERED HEAD TO TOE IN HIVES!

hives

I mean, his eyes were almost swollen shut! It was honestly terrifying. Thank goodness my mom was still in town or I might have lost it. I called the doctor and got him an appointment at noon.  In the meantime the nurse called me back and said it was very likely an allergic reaction to something and so we gave him Benadryl.  The hives were not bothering him at all so he got to enjoy the morning hanging at home watching Dumbo with GJ and Daddo. By the time I took him up to the doctor, the Benadryl had kicked in and his hives looked much better…but he was also pretty tired!

hives

He rallied and did great at the doctor despite the long wait.

hives

Dr. Walley took one look at him and said it was, in fact, not allergies but viral hives.  Yea, I’ve never heard of them either. Apparently it’s just a virus and, similar to Hand, Foot & Mouth, it’s pretty asymptomatic until the hives show up at which point you’re no longer contagious.  The fever on Friday was probably a sign of this coming but we’ll never know for sure.  Treatment is just a double dose of Zyrtec/Claritin until the hives go away.  By Tuesday morning, he woke up looking MUCH better!

hive free

Eyes still a little swollen but 90% hive free and feeling good!  We even got to go to another playdate at Jack’s house that afternoon where Spencer strutted his stuff!  🙂

strut

He still has 3 spots on his leg that haven’t gone away yet. Dr. Walley said it can take up to 10 days for all the hives to completely disappear.  He’s actually been scratching at those a bit so I hope they don’t end up bothering him.  Also, since he’s had such a rough week, I’m not going to give him too hard a time about pooping in the pool at swim lessons yesterday!  ha! Yep, Spence is ready for a new week indeed!

Happy weekend!

Busy Wednesday

We had a fun weekend with Maxwell’s fantastic (and fantastically HOT!) firetruck birthday party at the house. Full pics to come but first catching up on a few other things…

Last week Spencer had his follow-up appointment with the dentist to check on his teeth after he “busted open his whole mouf.”  The boys were SO well behaved and made me so proud. Spencer even sat on that little stool by himself and let the hygienist take x-rays of his teeth!

dentist

Such a big boy.

dentist

Watching Frozen on the ceiling!

dentist

Thankfully we got a great report.  The dentist said he didn’t see any discoloration of the top tooth yet and that his bottom lip was healing nicely despite the “deep laceration” he had.

dentist

We’re still watching the tooth to make sure it doesn’t turn gray but hopeful we’re in the clear for a pearly white! yay!