Day Care Update

hope_persists FTW! I just had a nice chat with a day care provider who comes with rave reviews and will be meeting her on Friday. Jen is also seeing a day care tomorrow that had a nice little blurb with the referral people (specifically said no TV).

GOOD.

Whoops! Forgot about the neurologist.

For Marla. :)

Totally uneventful. Actually, the biggest "event" of the whole thing was that it took place during nap time and Punk is teething at the same time so she was a howling banshee for most of the appointment and I couldn't hear anything. Argh!

But basically the neurologist said that while she DOES seem to be cruising longer than most kids (she's now been standing for nearly 5 months, cruising for nearly 4), he can't seem to find any obvious reason WHY. He checked her reflexes and did this neat thing with a black light to check for missing pigment (coolz), and he watched her cruise around and said that basically she is cruising really well, he doesn't get it.

He basically tried to blame the whole thing on either the donor ("well, sometimes late walking is hereditary and you don't know anything about the father") or the lost twin ("or I guess maybe something could have happened when you lost the twin that is resolving") but basically shrugged his shoulders and said she was fine. We made an appointment for 6 months from now and if she isn't walking then, he will do more things.

He didn't even want to do an MRI! I was shocked!! Of course, she was full-on howling at this point so he was probably like, "Get that crazy baby out of here!"

I asked him about why it takes her so long to figure out new things, and how I have to help her motor-plan everything before she does it (like when she couldn't figure out how to get down and I had to do it over and over and over) and I think he wrote me up as "neurotic mom" and said, "I don't see anything to worry about." He seemed to think she should be saying more words, but eh, it is what it is.

Exciting times.

Attention Bostonians or SoNewEnglanders:

My 15 year high school reunion is coming up in mid-September and I think I want to go to this one. It's on a weekend night at a place in Providence and I could go by myself but that's not nearly as fun. I would like Jen to be able to come, too.

It starts at 8pm so we would be able to put Punk to bed but you just never know how that's going to go, so someone would have to be willing to deal with the possibility of wake-ups. We'd also, umm, love to sleep over your place so we don't have to pack up a kid and drive her home in the middle of the night. Boy, we're demanding!

Anyone interested? If not it's no biggie, I'll just probably end up going by myself. I want to see who's going bald.

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