The Dermody Family: Well Child Check for Sean

Journals/Blogs

President Kimball said, "People often use the excuse that their lives are uneventful and nobody would be interested in what they have done. But I promise you that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, to your children, your grandchildren, and others, on through the generations. Each of us is important to those who are near and dear to us—and as our posterity read of our life's experiences, they, too, will come to know and love us. And in that glorious day when our families are together in the eternities, we will already be acquainted."

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you,
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows might go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Kahlil Gibran

Build Wisely

A HOME IS MUCH MORE THAN A HOUSE BUILT OF LUMBER, BRICK, OR STONE. A HOME IS MADE OF LOVE, SACRIFICE, AND RESPECT. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HOMES WE BUILD. WE MUST BUILD WISELY, FOR ETERNITY IS NOT A SHORT VOYAGE. THERE WILL BE CALM AND WIND, SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW, JOY AND SORROW. BUT IF WE REALLY TRY, OUR HOME CAN BE A BIT OF HEAVEN HERE ON EARTH. THE THOUGHTS WE THINK, THE DEEDS WE DO, THE LIVES WE LIVE NOT ONLY INFLUENCE THE SUCCESS OF OUR EARTHLY JOURNEY, THEY ALSO MARK THE WAY TO OUR ETERNAL GOALS.

--THOMAS S.MONSON

Friday, September 26, 2008

Well Child Check for Sean

It was back to the doctor for Sean's 20 month checkup, shhh, he really is 21 months today! Oops! Of course he is doing well. He is still a wee bit on the small side of those silly "charts", but he was in the 10th percentile for a LONG time! So, this is better. Now, he weighs a whopping 25 lbs (25th percentile). He is 32.5" tall (25th percentile), and to no one's surprise he has a BIG head, 19" (65th percentile).
Sean was a crazy little man at the doc's office today. He was hyper and loud, at least until the doctor walked in. Then he was shy and grumpy. Who can blame the little guy? He knows that he gets shots when he goes there. And yes, he got 2 shots today!!!
Don't feel bad for him, he was done crying in two seconds and right back to streaking through the clinic in only his diaper. Little rascal!

2 comments:

Brianne said...: I miss the days when I could take Owen to the doctor and he would just behave! I guess that's why we stop seeing them as much as they get older.; September 26, 2008 at 1:20 PM
another day in the life of... said...: Sean cracks me up. what a goose.; September 28, 2008 at 3:03 PM