*there's a jinx

You may recall that in Will's 18 month check up post  in mid-May I thought that we may go a few months without any visits to a doctor. Here is what I said: ...Will won't need to be seen again by a doctor (cross your fingers) until he turns TWO in November! Can it be?? Six appointments in one month and then NO appointments for SIX months?!?! I hope I didn't jinx it!

Guess what? I was SO wrong. There was
1) another appointment with the urologist
2) a check up with the GI doctor that I had forgotten about in June
(Very uneventful except for our report that he is no longer taking meds for reflux and the doctor suggesting a new plan to try an appetite stimulant when Will turns 2.)
3) another audiology follow up
(Normal middle ear pressure and hearing in both ears this time!)
4) 4 miscellaneous visits to the pediatrician's office.
That makes SEVEN appointments already in the first 3 months of the supposed 6 month drought.

As I look to the months ahead, there are 2 more scheduled appointments before Will's birthday in November:
1) ophthalmologist follow up...required one year after having some abnormal vision last year, I don't know if I wrote a post about it but he was deemed a little bit farsighted (or maybe nearsighted, can't remember) and the hope is that it has corrected itself over the past year.
2) urology pre-surgery appointment...for his next urology surgery. (Notice I didn't call it the last surgery because that might jinx him...)

for good measure let's just prepare for the
3) pediatrician because it's probably a safe bet that we will be back there too ;)

So probably 9-10 appointments will happen in this "6 months of no appointments". I won't be commenting on jinxable things again for awhile. Excluding the fact that in this post I mentioned that Will might be done taking medicines. He did take some for several more weeks but at this time he doesn't need any. It is REALLY nice to have that off our list of things to do every day but I am not bragging. Just stating a fact...

*there's nothing into everything

Know you what it is to be a child?…
It is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief;
it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear,
it is to turn pumpkins into coaches,
and mice into horses,
lowness into loftiness,
and nothing into everything,
for each child has its fairy godmother in its soul.

– Francis Thompson

*there's more summer fun

Ready for the sun!

Note: sunglasses were removed for the actual boat ride. He likes to throw things over the side into the water...

He has a wave for his fans despite all his driving responsibilities.

 

He takes the pontoon boat driving job very seriously.

Will doesn't get in the lake water because of his feeding tube. His doctor said pools and oceans are okay but ponds and lakes are not due to possible problems from the bacteria in the water around the site of his tube. This year is the first time he has been boat riding and he seems to like it. I think next year we'll have him signed up for swimming lessons!