Doctor & Library

I checked on Katharine first thing this morning. She got like 12 hours of sleep! 

That is good for a little growing girl. Natalie is being a good older sister again. I'm glad K didn't have a foot in her face. I've felt a little off with all the older girls gone, so I'm grateful for my phone that keeps me on track. If I wasn't able to set alarms, I probably would have totally forgotten about Katharine's 2 year well visit today. The alarm went off an hour early, and I remembered setting it for that much before, but I was confused cause I thought the appointment was on Thursday. I guess I set the alarm without mentally registering the day and time in my head. But having the alarm an hour before the appointment gave us plenty of time to get ready. Natalie had already been playing with Katharine, so she was slightly overdressed, all decked out in a new princess dress - not the purple gown she slept in, but Natalie's old favorite red and white dress. We all got socks and shoes on. I probably could have left Natalie at home with the boys, but I thought I might take them to the library afterwards so I had them come. But (little parenting tip here...) I didn't say anything about that to them, so as to not commit myself in case I changed my mind. We got there 10 min early, the doctor appt was at 11:30. Kids played on the bead racer toys. 

Daniel had K's Bingo stuffed toy that my mom got her for her bday, Kids also looked out the window and wandered and asked me why it was taking so long.

After waiting until 11:50, I was wondering that myself. I went to ask a receptionist, and she said they were running 45 minutes behind. They had a "45 min wait" sign next to Dr. Shultz's name, but not Dr. Schmidt, but I didn't point that out, we just went back and I told the kids "We've waited 20, we got 25 more!" They were boooored and starting asking me for Wendy's frosties or other compensatory blessings to offset this trial they were facing. I calmly said "no". I feel no guilt for denying them fast food. We did eventually get called in at 12:10, yay. And the nice nurses, probably knowing we'd had a long wait, gave everyone a snack. 

The appointment wasn't long once we got in. And they gave Katharine a new book, and I was feeling good and at this point did tell the kids that we'd be going by the library after.  

Katharine reading over in the kiddie corner on a toddler sized couch.

We checked out 25 things - 23 books and two DVDs. Kids played with the puppet show.

They got lost in their books for the next hour at home, yay! Kids reading in the side room. 

I made them lunch - Peter, Daniel and Katharine wanted pink oatmeal, ham sandwiches for Natalie and Owen. Daniel reading with his pink oatmeal.

"Pink oatmeal" is a summer favorite around here. I cook Steel Cut oats in the morning, then they mix it with frozen berries (to cool it down) sliced bananas, and some rice milk. While kids were reading, I got a little bit done in my room. I came out to smell fingernail polish and found K in the basket of polish that Natalie had gotten down this morning when she got K all dolled up. I put it up high. K got some on her dress and just a little bit on the carpet. Could have been worse! Her fancy dress was getting progressively dirty through out the day. Seems like a good time to wear it to the park. Put K in the trailer - 

Kids got on their bikes...

And we rode down to the school. 

Owen and Daniel rode their bikes to school almost every day. I wonder if Peter will want to ride with them to school in the fall? I shall have to prep myself for that, cause that would mean K and I would probably go with them, which could be fun. I'll just have to get K ready for that every morning on the shotgun seat. As soon as we got there, Peter had to go to #2. 

Yay, so much for reading while the kids played... so I put him in the trailer and took him home, left N at the park with ODK. I got back at 6:15, NOD were done, so they went home and I stayed with PK until P was done. K playing at the top of the slide in her dress and pearls!

When he said he was, K went to get her socks and shoes which she had discarded. Getting so dirty, just like a kid should when it's summer time. Kat, go get your socks and shoes! You ready? "I ready!!!" 

That is probably the sentence Katharine says the most, and usually said with a hop and a jump, "I ready!!" So Peter got on his bike, I put K in the trailer, and we start to leave. We had been at the south playground for the older elementary kids and as we left and rode on the north side of the school, K saw the other playground and said "slide! Slide!" so then we stopped, unbuckled, and stayed a little longer. 

I barely got them to leave in time for when Corey was coming home. Corey and I both got there at the same time and hurried and changed clothes to get ready for a 7pm ride with our neighbor Rob. Since we had stayed at the park for so long, I didn't get the kids dinner. Rob arrived, Corey went out to talk with him as I finished getting ready. I went out, Corey asked if the kids were all taken care of. "Yes. ...it ok that I gave them Lucky Charms for dinner?" He said it was ok. "Ok, then yes, they are all taken care of." Natalie held down the fort while we went on a ride up the canyon. We went to the ruins, I got up the climb after Lisa Falls today! My second time this year. The top with the ruins was all washed over - the river is high from the summer temperatures that are here, and so it was all coming down the trail at the top. We did techy, and I hit everything and felt proud, and Corey wanted to show Rob Techgnar so we did that and I did the sticks bridge on that for the first time. I could probably get to like it, I just need to get more familiar with it. Came home and cleaned up, and tried to get ready for bed. We played a quick game of Great Dalmuti with the kids. 

Katharine played, she was a wild card player, meaning that whatever she did was allowed. She didn't want to do anything except hold her cards though, so that was good for the game, but made her wail when it was time to shuffle. No tears from the boys this time, so that's an improvement. Time for bed, got an early ride with Grant in the morning!