Just very, very busy. Today, for example, I took Fia to the doctor, which involved telling her, calming her down, getting her dressed, telling her again where we were going, getting Darin to carry her to the car, and then letting her cling to me like a little minkey-baby while at the doctor’s. She didn’t talk at all while he was there, just made scared little nods and shakes of the head. “She talks, really really well,” I told him, but she wouldn’t make a sound.
The doctor left the exam room and Fia said, “We saw the doctor and it didn’t hurt at all!”
Then the nurse came in with the needle for the TB test. Heh.
After doing the eye test and drawing blood for a CBC test, we went to the doctor’s office for a finall wrap-up. He had some paperwork to do and ignored us for a bit. While we waited, Fia informed me of what we were going to do for the rest of the morning in great detail. Whereupon the doctor said, “So you can talk!”
You should have seen the look of consternation of Fia’s face. “Oh no, I’ve been found out!”
After the doctor’s I dropped Fia at a friend’s house while I took Simon to Gymboree, which is really “Baby and Parent Socialization Hour, with Parachutes.” Then we went back to the friend’s house, where we had an impromptu birthday party for Fia (can’t have too many of those, you know), before heading home, whereupon Fia and Simon were abducted by the babysitter to the zoo and I sat down to do two weeks’ worth of bills.
Whee. Ha.
It’s now 3 in the afternoon, which means I have a whole 90 minutes before the kids come back. So I have to run and do all my errands in the short amount of time I’ve got soon. Ciao.