Its Thursday, December 13. Its been a big day and now, its nap time!
Elle went with me to meet the nice lady who is going to take care of her while Mommy and Daddy go to work each day. There were lots of kids there too :-). We'll do it again a couple more times before the real deal - working up to Mom sneaking out for a while so that Elle is not totally surprised by all this. Its certainly different than taking a tiny baby to the babysitter! Bryant and Alex didn't have a clue that there was anything out of the ordinary going on. With Elle, she is suspicious of almost everything we do!
We went to eat Christmas dinner with Daddy and Alex at school too. Elle ate all of her mashed potatoes, ham, and cake with cool whip on it, plus some of Daddy's food. She was not impressed with Alex or Ken though and took some time to warm up to them. She was probably mad that they had ditched her earlier in the morning. They'd all been home Tuesday and Wednesday because of the weather, so it was like starting over for Elle again.
We had another first today too - we went with Grampa this afternoon to feed bales to the cows. Elle was impressed with them, but I think she was glad to be safe inside the pick-up cab! She and Grampa had their usual growling match, but I think Elle wins out most times.
Hopefully, she'll take a quick snooze now while watching Ice Age and then, at 4pm, we'll go pick up Daddy from school and head to our first basketball game. Alex will start at 4:45pm. Elle has a new green t-shirt with her name on the front and the mascot on the back. Grama got it for her. So, she is all set to yell for our team! She got a jingle bell from a Christmas card Daddy had this morning, so maybe we'll bring that along and ring it when Alex makes a point!
Tomorrow is our four hour trip to the cleft clinic for a four hour appointment.... Wish us safe driving and wonderful, professional caregivers on the other end. Hopefully, Elle will not panic too soon and the lab work will be minimal. Add to that the fact that Elle does ok on short rides, but anything over about 45 minutes doesn't always go so smooth. We are going to leave at 4am for our 8:30am appointment just in hopes that she will sleep most of the way.
Well, that's about the extent of our week. Take care and we'll keep you posted!
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