quite a parade

I totally forgot that 3 of the 5 Wardlings had well check-ups this week. Thankfully the dr.s office called to remind me. And as of yet...no stone passing here. It took some serious coordination to schedule the appointments @ the same time when I scheduled them. When we checked in, the receptionists told me that for the future only one sibling appointment can be made @ a time. I asked about 2 back to back sibling appointments and they just said that if we didn't show, that was a huge chunk of time that they wouldn't be making money. I mean really the Pediatricians Office is still a business after all. I think there should be exceptions made for big families. (They are making alot of money off of us.) And- if they looked over our records of being patients, they would clearly see that we haven't missed any appointments and I have always rescheduled in time for them to reschedule other patients. Anyway- Libby hadn't been feeling well, complaining of sore throat and this nasty cough. I called and arranged for all 4 of them to be seen.
Joshua is 68 pounds, in the 60th percentile for height and weight.
Jacob is 48 pounds, in the 75th percentile for height and weight.
Penny is 40 pounds, the the 75th for weight and 95th in height.
Both Libby and Jacob tested negative for the rapid strep test. Jacob had a 102* temperature @ the appointment. (Viral junk) He was miserable. Then the nurse said that Josh needed 2 immunizations and Penny needed 3. Then they offered the flu shot and H1N1. I agreed to the immunizations and the regular flu, but not to the H1N1. Penny was all over the room during the check-ups. Of course the Wardlings faces dropped when I told them they were getting shots. I didn't realize that they needed them. We had determined that since our pediatricians office didn't have the flu shot for children older than 2 years in their office, in October, that we wouldn't get it. Jacob was very teary eyed and scared about getting a shot, but since he was sick, he couldn't get it. I thought this would make him happy, but lo- it didn't. By the end of the visit he was teary because he wasn't getting one. I couldn't win. So, tally time...1 flu shot for Erin and Libby, 3 shots for Josh, 4 for Penny, and Jacob escaped unscathed. I did spoil them with a milkshake after their shots.
As we were leaving the dr.'s office, one of the newer dr.'s to our practice, but older male pediatricians, while on his cell phone said, "Wow that's quite a parade!"