Well Visits

Yesterday I woke up on my own before my alarm, yay, so I went bouldering at Millcreek. Then I found my old fitbit, and got 10K steps by taking K on a walk in stroller for 50 min, plus 30 min stretching. Last Wed I started to do stretching in my room when I read my scriptures. It's working pretty good. 

I've had two days of well visits at the pediatrician. A&L went in yesterday at 12:30. I scheduled the visit for Lily a few weeks ago, cause she's got a big plantar wart on her foot that has been bothering her for months and killing her the past two weeks. Then I called last week to see if I could tack Abi onto Lily's appointment cause she needed a physician check to finish her paperwork for golf tryouts. It was like an hour wait, which was annoying and Abi had to leave early to make it to the 4pm tryouts. So she went by Dr. Schmits house later that evening to finish what she needed for that. I took Lily back home then hurried out to take S&N to violin. I went to Millcreek library to blog while they were at violin. I was able to do one blog post (Anniversary dinner). I was glad for a little bit of time to feel like I got something done. After those longer than planned visits yesterday, I wasn't excited about doing it again with Peter today. Waiting at the dr visit Monday, Katharine was doing her best to be patient. 

We were waiting for an hour. Abi was worried she wouldn't make it to her 4pm tryouts. Lily had her backpack. It looked like Lily was getting stuff done at her computer....

...but mostly she was coloring on her chromebook. I hope that all comes off Lil!

They were going to give her a shot, but she panicked and said she couldn't, if she did she'd pass out and it would mess up her tryouts. Ok, we'll put it off. I thought it was funny how quickly she went from "yay we're finally having our check up" to "If you give me a shot I'LL DIE!!!" Abi doesn't do well with shots. 

Lily getting a wart on her hand frozen. She was tough for that, but said she did not think she could handle that kind of pain on her foot which was already swollen and in pain. So we're gonna do wart pads and duct tape for that, per the dr's recommendation. It will take longer, but we'll do it. 

Had a nice phone visit with Wes. Ethan went off for a bit about WORKING hard and not wasting time and doing what a missionary is supposed to be doing (He had just got an email from one of his MTC missionaries that is out in the field now and kinda surprised at how much time they waste, so Ethan was feeling the need to rant and let Wesley have his lecture. Wes took it for him, and Wes has been doing all the stuff Ethan said to do. Wes is working hard and doing great!

Ok, so then for today - I went to the temple early with my mom. It took a while, cause the lady doing my initiatories, who I had each time because there were just two workers in our booth, she was totally like Giselle from Enchanted. She was very pretty and pleasant, but it was sooo distracting the way she talked. She was very flowery in her language and she didn't talk quickly, which is fine, but it took FOREVER and it was distracting to me. I was trying to appreciate it rather than get annoyed, but I guess I did end up more on the annoyed side, hence my needing to come and vent about it here. It was just so slow. So we didn't go to the celestial room after initiatories cause we had used all of our time. It's ok, it was kinda funny, a unique experience. I did do a quick bouldering session at the Sandy Momentum after temple, then the busy busy morning continued when I got home to take carpool and on my way out I asked Corey to wake up the boys and Katharine so we could go over to the school for "Books and Bagels" aka let's eat garbage for breakfast (donuts and chocolate milk). 

They loved it. Me... not so much, ugh. 

Then we went to the book fair, so I could hear about all the books my kids want that I am not going to buy for them. But I did take pictures of them and said I'd look them up on Amazon (if they remember that they want them after they get home and ask me to look them up) 

Peter didn't stay for school, we just left straight for his well visit was a 9:45. Katharine is like "Hey, this is fun... we were here yesterday!"

Peter is fit as a fiddle.

It's been a long two days of not being home. K and I both took a nap after we got home. 

I think I'm going to need to recover tomorrow and just be lazy. I dropped the boys off at Activity days this afternoon... (they made bird houses)

They are a cute group of boys. Owen's house - 

And Daniel's, which the boys all told me D threw over the fence right after the activity, in view of his leaders, cause he didn't like how it turned out (not the best of manners on diplay there, Daniel...)

While they were painting, I went for a hike to Bells (2.47 miles in 1 hour 3 min) which was good for my mental health. I went up to Bells. There is still a bit of ice and snow, but it was good. 

And I came home to see that Owen had been looking for clothes in the bins in the basement that I had carefully separated and organized. Sigh.  

I brought him downstairs to tell him that this mess was not ok. He put things back with my help.  There is a lot of work that needs to be done in the basement. I've been avoiding it. I guess I could do that tomorrow on my day off.