I had overlooked setting up an appointment for Parker for his 4 year old well visit until May. They didn't have any openings until July, so I got the bright idea that I could take both boys to the doctor for well visits since Preston was due for his as well in July. I want to share with you a recap of our day.
Dr Coggins enters the room
Dr Coggins: Hi, we are here to do both boys, double the trouble.
Later on when it comes to Parker's turn, I saw a different side of Dr. Coggins. He is goofy with the little guys, but talks to the patient in a funny way.
Dr Coggins: Let's do Parker now.
What is your favorite food?
Parker: Cottage cheese and apple butter.
Dr Coggins: That's a central PA trait.
Parker: And apples.
Dr Coggins: I am going to look in your ears. How many ears do you have?
Parker (giggling): 2
Dr Coggins: Do you have any animals that live in your ears?
Dr Coggins: I am going to look at your belly. How many belly buttons do you have?
Parker: 1
Dr Coggins: How many belly buttons does Mommy have?
Parker: 1, too.
Dr Coggins: Mommy has 2 belly buttons?
Parker: No 1.
Dr Coggins: Now I need you to do some exercises.
Parker: I can do jumping jacks (does jumping jacks and goes in circles.)
Dr. Coggins: Well ok, that is good. I have some different exercises, they are kind of boring compared to jumping jacks. Can you stand on your tippy toes? Can you stand on one leg? Can you jump on one leg?
Parker does his best to do Dr Coggin's exercises. I then mention about checking his hearing. He says that age 4 is when they do that. He will send the nurse back in to check his hearing. His job was to say "beep" each time he heard a beep. He did a good job. He cooperated real good.
Then came the vision test.
Nurse: Cover your eye like a pirate.
Parker covers his eye and did real well. The picture of a boat he even called a ship. Until he got down to the small line then he started cheating, removing his hand. He even said it was too little to see. All and all they were not concerned and said they would check again next year.
Preston is 34 inches tall and can now be turned around forward facing in the other car seat. This was instructions for this particular car seat that you have to be over age 1 and taller than 34 inches before facing forward. We had already turned him around in the other one a few months ago.
We go back in 6 months to check up on Preston's vocabulary. He will point to an object and tell you what it is, but doesn't really communicate a whole lot.
We were there for an hour and half. Maybe doing a double appointment wasn't such a good idea after all.
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