Having been up way too late last night (which rather makes me wonder why I’m still up at this time) what I really needed was for the baby to keep me up all night feeding so that I’d be raring to go for our doctor’s appts at 9 and 9.15.
So obviously she obliged 😉
Big wasn’t up to wandering down to the doctor’s. She was barely up to standing upright. Temp was still up about at around 38.2, she was wobbling and sorry for herself. So I changed the appt to be one where I talk about her, and went to grab babe to rush down with Small.
Except babe was wet. First time a Pampers has let us down overnight, *obviously* on the morning that I needed to just grab and run. So it was full change and then into wrap and rush out – arriving at docs 10 minutes late 🙁
Small has a verruca. He’s had it for years, he informed the doctor, explaining that it hasn’t changed colour and hasn’t grown for weeks. It hasn’t been there for years I said, and apologised for his google diagnosis. He did do it himself I pointed out.
The doctor seemed very unsure as to what to do next. Think he was a trainee – he read the BNF and prescribed something or other after much deliberation. Then he wasn’t very happy to prescribe diarolyte for Big without seeing her (I only asked for it as NHSDirect said we needed it when I spoke to them last night) so she had to be added to the home visit list. And Tim texted to say he had an emergency dentist appt at 11.30.
Small and I called at the chemists on the way home. To discover that the prescribed verruca medication has been discontinued. Sigh. Why is nothing ever simple? Then we stopped off at our favourite charity shop, where they are still selling £1 children’s bundles of books two for £1.50. Six books for £1.50, including The Illustrated Mum
, The Ship That Flew (Oxford Children’s Modern Classics)
and The Haunting of Hiram
for Big, with a bundle of Viking history books for Small.
Inspired choice for Big – she loves Jacqueline Wilson and somehow hadn’t read The Illustrated Mum. That kept her occupied all day, staving off the headache that she was getting if she tried to watch TV. By evening she was a lot brighter, although not enough for swimming club, rather a shame as it was the last session of the term 🙁
Small spent the day teaching himself programming. I’ve shown him Scratch several times in the past, this time he just took off with it, worked out how to have multiple sprites in one project, starting ripping off code from one to put into another and even began to fit in conditionals of his own accord. Tim and I discussed Scratch for Android and whether I can justify a new Android phone if Small (and maybe me) would write apps for it.
Then we brainstormed apps that we could write. Which was fun.
So we needed a quiet day, and that was pretty much what we got. Not quiet enough for me to actually finish the blogpost on the day I started it (Friday!) but hey.
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