Doctor's appointments for Cayden & Keenan

Cayden had her 3 year old well visit today. She is doing great. She is 37 1/4 inches and 32 lbs. My big tall girl! She is right on track with everything and even ahead in some areas (potty trained over a year ago etc).

I had called a few days ago and asked if I could have Keenan seen during her appointment too. He has a million issues so we wanted to get some things checked out. He had a funky "ball" under his skin on the back of his head that was really freaking us out. He has also been spitting up way too much, has bad cradle cap that won't go away, and some super dry patches on his legs.

Turns out that the ball on the back of his head (it's the size of a pea - very small) is a swollen lymph node and in fact he had some on his neck too. That can sometimes happen when you are fighting an infection of sorts. Dr. said it was most likely due to the severe cradle cap. She told us to use Selsen blue to get rid of it instead of baby cradle cap shampoo. Dry patches on his legs were excema and we were told to use hydrocortozone cream for it.

The spitting up - not so good. He was 11lbs 4oz at his last dr's appt which was a fine weight. But one whole month later he is only 11lbs 8oz's and is dropping in percentile. Therefore the dr felt that the constant spit up was affecting his weight gain. Her recommendation - no more breastfeeding :( We are going to all soy formula. He is sensitive to dairy and can't tolerate it right now. She asked if we had started any solids and I told her that we give him rice cereal before bed and oatmeal cereal in the morning. She said she was glad and that although they normally recommend waiting until 4 months to start we could go ahead with jarred food as well because Keenan could stand to gain a bit more weight. We actually have given him bananas, applesauces, and peas so far (I didn't tell her that! LOL) so I guess my mommy instincts that he needed more food when I started 2 wks ago were right!

Oh and she said he is soooooooo crazy tall for his age and that is why he seems even skinnier than he really is. This crazy boy is 25 inches tall at 3 1/2 months! He is ready for 6-12mth clothes!