date: Wed 24 Sep 2025 01:39:42 PM PDT
subj: milestone for twin daughter
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Today was a dad take care of twins day. My wife is at work so I
was assigned to take the day off from work so I could take our
daughter to the pediatrician. 

The morning started out pretty good except for a massive
eruption from mt daughter reflux. She spit-up a good portion of
her morning meal. After cleanup and an outfit change, she was
happy as could be, and had a great playtime in her panda play
chair. She played while sitting next to her brother in the crazy
bounce toy that has music and a bunch of toys. They were both
happy, and played for a decent amount of time, until the got
hungry around 9:30 am. Time was running out because I had to
feed them, pack them up, and drive to the pediatrician.  

Today is daughters weight check, and from our perspective she
hasn't been eating two well during the day for the last couple
weeks. 

Both children were good after their bottle to ride in the car to
the doctors office. Doing the dad thing I tried to operate with
efficiency all morning keeping my focus and that included every
action, my route to the doctors office, how I unloaded the
children, putting them in the stroller, hopping curbs, and going
through doors. I was without mom today so that meant going
through doors backwards. 

In the exam room, doctor came in and business the entire way.
Not the same when mom is there. Time with the doctor was about 5
minutes. Time for weight check was about 4 minutes. The great
news is our daughter finally got on the chart for regular
children. Her growth curve is like a rising stock ticker heading
to the moon (x^2).

All morning I was anticipating getting a failure to thrive
report from the doctor. Even my wife and I have been thinking
about this for a few days now. I was super happy to get the
opposite report, "you two are doing great! Daughter is growing,
keep up the good work." Our daughter gets most of the credit,
she is the one eating and growing. 

I was happy to talk to my little girl about her great progress.
Babygirl you are doing good! Daddy loves you!

Now we just have to continue working on tummy time.