May 13, 2013

Kids Update:

Today Daddy went to Vivian’s class where they were studying manufacturing and factories and gave a talk about the old days when he worked at Cisco.

This weekend, on Saturday night before Mother’s Day, Sophie’s 7^th tooth came out. It was an eye tooth.  Vivian already lost her 7^th tooth some months ago, but her other eye tooth was loose. Once Sophie’s tooth came out, she really wanted to pull this loose one out. They both wanted the tooth fairy to come in the night before Mother’s Day.

They made me some paper chains and beautiful cards. We went to Family Fun Day at their school – they climbed the rock climbing wall and swam. Later we met some friends for dinner.

 I subbed in the after school yoga class for K-2 graders. Both Vivi and Sophie are in that class. They just love yoga and I am so grateful. I really hope they can learn some coping mechanisms and tuning into peace for themselves that I did not learn growing up.

For the past 2 weekends, the  girls have been invited to birthday parties but haven’t had fun at them. They were both 3^rd grade boys in Sophie’s class and it was tempting to let them go because the parties were in our neighborhood. The first party was for an adopted Liberian boy named Gift who is very spoiled and impulsive. They reported that he told them he wasn’t going to invite them to his parties anymore.

The party this weekend ended up with Vivian having a bruised and possibly fractured heel bone.  She jammed her heel onto a ledge and then continued to run on it. They play chase a lot at this age with the boys and she said she was scared of the boys catching her and beating her up so she continued to run even though her foot hurt. When we picked her up, she was limping. The next day, Mother’s Day, we took her into town to get an xray.

The doctor told us to go back to the waiting room and wait while he called the xray tech. I figured he was in the next room. But what he really meant was that he had to call him on the phone to come in. Lord only knows how long THAT would take. We asked the doctor what the outcome would be if we discovered there was a fracture. He said he would put a cast on if necessary, or else just tape it. My husband had already taped it. Then he told us, with a bit of an attitude, that he told us it would be 20 minutes til the tech came.

I’m sorry, no you did not. You said Wait and I will call him. But he never told us any time frame. We ended up leaving because we didn’t want to waste our entire day. We are keeping her heel wrapped and she is doing OK.