The nurse was really nice and all was going well despite Gracie's apprehension until the automatic blood pressure cuff malfunctioned and just kept getting tighter and tighter. I heard her start to whimper about the time the nurse saw the look of sheer terror on her face. She stopped the machine and Sweet Gracie had red marks all over her upper arm. After a few tears, we were all ok until it was time to try again. Little miss had no interest in anyone coming near her, much less the lady with the blood pressure cuff. After the wonderful nurse took her own blood pressure twice and I fished some fruit snacks out of the diaper bag, we were able to try again, but not without tears.
We had time to regroup and change diapers before we saw the nurse practitioner. Bennett complained that his mouth was bothering him and we discovered his bottom 6-year molars coming in. Then, we tackled putting the kids' points stickers in their buddy bucks books to pass the time productively. It took some sweet talk and more fruit snacks for Gracie to even lay on the table for a quick exam by the sweet nurse practitioner. I was encouraged when I found out that she has done training under the urologist that we loved in Dallas. The nurse practitioner felt positive based on my history, but is waiting for a new renal ultrasound and getting all of our urology records and MRIs in before we make any decisions. She gave me some ideas about potty training, but we'll know better how to tackle that monster after some more tests. We're calling it good news for now and are looking forward to further discussing things in a few weeks. A different nurse came in with an appointment for the renal ultrasound, but it was next week at the same time as Bennett's dairy food challenge. I told her the two dates in the next month that we have dr appts scheduled and low and behold she came back with an appointment scheduled for the other day we have a dr appt already. There's enough time between that I should be able to make it work, but really?? I asked where radiology was and she proceeded to tell me that she was new and knew how to get there, but didn't know how to tell me and I should just follow the signs.
Bennett and Gracie had both been really good, so a treat was in order. We all enjoyed slushes from sonic before continuing with some errands.
First up, Office Depot. I had dropped off some cardstock to have bound into homeschool notebooks on Saturday. After standing in line for 15 minutes I was less than thrilled to find out that my notebooks that were supposed to be ready in two hours still hadn't been started 48 hours later. After realizing no attempt was being made to get them done quickly, we told them to cancel the order and let them know we would get it done elsewhere. I am thankful to the lady we chatted with in line who had tipped us off to the other Office Depot in town that we didn't know existed, but apparently has much better service.
We had to make a quick, but emotional, trip to target for Bennett to replace a magic ink coloring book of Gracie's that he had colored all but one of the pages in. Then we were off to visit with Brad while he had a quick dinner before work.
I had planned to get groceries, but when Connor started crying as soon as we parked, I decided we'd all had enough and headed home. After a nice rest for everyone, we went for a not too terribly hot walk. We ended our day with a late night dinner of fruit loops. A meal to celebrate because it was Gracie's first bowl of cereal with milk.
We ended our day with Connor giving Gracie a great big open mouth grin. I sure hope to catch a picture of one soon!
There's always tomorrow.
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