Oh what fun we had! It was a crazy busy day...but a good crazy! That morning, if you may recall, we drove down to the U of MN for Shelby's appointment with the Neuro surgeon. So far, we have had some nice doctors. This one, Dr. Haines, reminded me of a whiter haired Randy Rouse (if any of you know him...he was my soccer coach...and my ER doctor when I was like 16 and had my wisdom teeth pulled I had a strange reaction to some "drugs" I was on and my jaw literally shifted from side to side on it's own, meaning I couldn't stop it, it just did it. And then it would clamp down on my open "no more wisdom teeth, just gaping hole wound" and so my other teeth would bite down on that "open wound", then it would shift to the other side). Anyway, the Dr. Haines had the coolest shaped glasses I've ever seen! They were circles or squres or rectangular...they were like a spectacle but not completely round...very dashing. And so far, him and the last doctor we had, have shared stories with us about their family. Like the last one asked if we had any other children and we were like, yeah, two others, and he was all like, yeah, my wife said we were done at three, and then there were five! And we were all like, yeah, we're really done, Tom took care of that... LOL :)
Dr. Haines told us a story about when his second child was about Shelby's age and they had gotten him new shoes and how every time they put his shoes on he would cry and cry until they took them off. He said then one day their 3 year old watched this whole scene play out, and then very matter of factly said, "Well, Dad, the shoes are too tight!" So they took them off and thought, well? Anyway, it just makes you feel like they are people too, they have kids and a wife and you feel like they really understand.
Anyway, then when we came home we cleaned a bit, and then Shelby just did not seem settled and we had been toying with the idea that maybe she had another ear infection. So I went to Same Day clinic with a positive attitude that "No, it would not be busy and we would get in and out!" I envisioned what that would look like in my head and how happy I would be...And guess what! We got there sat down, took her out of the car seat, and, "Shelby Bergman?"
What? Did they just...yeah they did just say her name! So that was nice. And yes, she did have another one. What an angel! When she's sick she never really acts like she is, it's just these little tiny things I pick up on that she's not totally herself!
So, then we ran home, made my dip (Tom helped...in fact he was a big help that day) and then at 6:30pm our guests started to arrive! We had a couple of friends that have two kids, Tom's sister and hubby and child, our neighbors Josh and Katie, Tom's parents and friends stopped over, another couple of friends came... It was so much fun! We had tons of snacks, and we played board games and Wii (my bro gave us his wii for christmas and we gave him Tom's sub woofer from the truck, we figured we are a little old for a sub woofer :). It was a blast! The last of them left at about 1:30am. Whoa! Long night, but totally worth it! Then New Years Day was spent at Tom's parent's house with a lot of the same people, eating snacks again and playing cards and dice.
And now...I'm a little sleepy, but feeling good! 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dr. Haines told us a story about when his second child was about Shelby's age and they had gotten him new shoes and how every time they put his shoes on he would cry and cry until they took them off. He said then one day their 3 year old watched this whole scene play out, and then very matter of factly said, "Well, Dad, the shoes are too tight!" So they took them off and thought, well? Anyway, it just makes you feel like they are people too, they have kids and a wife and you feel like they really understand.
Anyway, then when we came home we cleaned a bit, and then Shelby just did not seem settled and we had been toying with the idea that maybe she had another ear infection. So I went to Same Day clinic with a positive attitude that "No, it would not be busy and we would get in and out!" I envisioned what that would look like in my head and how happy I would be...And guess what! We got there sat down, took her out of the car seat, and, "Shelby Bergman?"
What? Did they just...yeah they did just say her name! So that was nice. And yes, she did have another one. What an angel! When she's sick she never really acts like she is, it's just these little tiny things I pick up on that she's not totally herself!
So, then we ran home, made my dip (Tom helped...in fact he was a big help that day) and then at 6:30pm our guests started to arrive! We had a couple of friends that have two kids, Tom's sister and hubby and child, our neighbors Josh and Katie, Tom's parents and friends stopped over, another couple of friends came... It was so much fun! We had tons of snacks, and we played board games and Wii (my bro gave us his wii for christmas and we gave him Tom's sub woofer from the truck, we figured we are a little old for a sub woofer :). It was a blast! The last of them left at about 1:30am. Whoa! Long night, but totally worth it! Then New Years Day was spent at Tom's parent's house with a lot of the same people, eating snacks again and playing cards and dice.
And now...I'm a little sleepy, but feeling good! 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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