Doctor, Doctor...give me the news

Today was a pretty good day. I woke up before my alarm went off. I had it set for 7am, to get up and get ready for Cohens doctors appointment. I ended up waking up about 630 and tried laying there for 30 minutes, I stayed about 15 and had to get out of bed. I went ahead and got myself all together while the boys were still sleeping. Normally they get up about 730. This morning of all mornings that I had to get up early, they sleep in. I had to go wake them up at 830 so we could leave at 9am. I would have totally enjoyed sleeping until 830-9. But none the less, I was already up and starting my day.



We left the house at 9 for Cohens 940 appointment. I had to stop by Matt's work and drop Connor off. Then we headed over to the hospital for Cohen's appointment. They were on the ball today...we had enough time to check in, Cohen had to run to the potty, and they were calling us back as we walked out of the bathroom. They checked his weight and height. He is right at 50 lbs and 42 inches tall. Hes going to be a big boy. He is in like the 100th percentile for both height and weight. He did so well getting his BP checked and his temp. Heres a little TMI, so stop reading if you arent interested. The doc finally came in and checked out his penis (thats the reason for the visit). Cohen was born with a birth defect called Hypospadias. Its where the hole of the penis is not quite at the tip. His isnt really bad, its actually not very noticable. Instead of being right at the tip, its like a dot below that. Along with that, he has some chordee, which is a slight curvature and he was born with foreskin only on the top part of his penis. So really he looks like he was half circumsized. We were supposed to get this done when he was around a year old...we are just now finally settled enough to get it done. We've talked to doctors about it before, so i know a little about what is going to happen, plus ive looked it up quite a bit online. Its nothing that will effect his health but its something that could effect his self esteem one day in the future. So we have to see a Pediatric Urologist to get the process started. Today we went to our primary care doc to get a referral to see the Ped Urologist. Hopefully we will hear something next week. When we do, we will call and make that appointment and hope that its not months away.

After we left the doctor and picked Connor back up we headed home. I made a pit stop at the school and picked up an application for their nursing program. We headed home for a little bit. Had some lunch and got things ready to go to Lowes and Walmart. Ended up buying a paint sample at Lowes and looked at some shades for the bathroom window. The master bath is going to be the first paint project. I also bought a cabinet/shelf for the bathroom. Its white, so ill end up painting it to match the accent color I have picked out for the bathroom. Connor fell asleep on the way home...so i brought him in the house and laid him down for a nap. Cohen and I decided to go outside for a while since it was a BEAUTIFUL day today. It was almost 60 degrees out. I cleaned out my car while Cohen rode his 4 wheeler around the yard. Connor woke up after about an hour and came outside to join us...Cohen on his 4 wheeler and Connor riding on his truck power wheel. We then decided to take Smokey and Delilah for a walk. Bad, bad idea. Smokey was pulling me one way, Delilah was pulling the other. She hasnt quite learned how to walk on a lease yet, so she was going goofy, in all different directions. We made it a quick walk and then came inside. I settled the boys down with their new favorite cartoon, Tom and Jerry and i started a little painting of the bathroom to get some ideas on how i liked the color. Im not sure yet, if i like it or not. After Matt got home from work, i went back to Lowes and picked up a gallon of the color i picked out. Tomorrow I am going to paint the bathroom the Pine Bark color and see how i like it. If i dont like it, then i guess itll be off to Lowes again and finding a new color. : ) So that brings me to now. We relaxed around the house and then got the boys in bed. Im blogging about my days events and Matt is sound asleep.