Marvelous Misadventures.

I'm going to turn the events of yesterday into a children's story one day. I think it is pretty entertaining...now. It wasn't so much fun in the moment.

Yesterday I took Kaia to the doctor for her 12 month well check. I know, we are a little behind. I had it scheduled in June, but Mike was a little paranoid about the Swine Flu, so we canceled and yesterday was the first available they had. So anyway, the hub on my truck has to be replaced and the new one won't be here until Monday. I was going to take Mike's car, but my mom was nervous about that so she insisted I take her's. I loaded Blaze and Kaia's carseats, put the DVD players in and off we went. Kaia watched Horton Hears a Who and laughed and pointed and yelled at the Wickersham Brothers and Horton. Blaze was watching Ghost Rider. About three miles into the canyon I realized I didn't give Blaze his dramamine. He gets really car sick in the canyon. I asked him how he was doing and he said not good. I asked if he needed to puke and he didn't. I told him if he needed to he had to let me know so I could pull over. I didn't have anything handy for him to ralph in at the moment. He made it to just outside of Beaver. We got pulled over in time and I found a cup in the trunk just in case. We stopped in Beaver and got him some dramamine. He only puked one other time after that and then fell asleep. He slept until we got to St. George. He opened his eyes and said, " I feel SO MUCH better!" I then asked if he felt like eating something. He just wanted Ketchup and French Fries. So that's what he got. We went to Old Navy and Target to do a little school shopping for him and he was so good. He didn't complain once and I didn't have to get after him for being naughty. It was so nice. Kaia was good too of course. I did have to tell her several times to sit down in the cart.

Then it was time for our Dr. appointment. Blaze was exceptionally good there too. He played with the toys and Kaia. He is such a good big brother. He makes me proud. Kaia is now 19 lbs and some change. She is 29 inched tall. She's pretty small for her age but the doc isn't too worried. I asked her about walking she said it's normal for them not to walk until they are 17 months. After that they start to worry. She did a couple tests anyway, because she has taken steps, but won't walk. She said her hips are a little too flexible for her age. They aren't usually that flexible at this point and that is probably why she won't walk. She said she would be fine and walking in the next month or two. If not we would just take her back in and they would figure out what's going on. She talks alot! Even if we don't know what she's saying, she does. She does say, mama, dada, Blazie, Kola, dog, WHAT?, and that. There are probably more, but I can't think of any. So we have a very healthy happy little girl.

We had a very nice quiet ride home with no car sickness to plague us.

ETA: So you may be thinking "How is that going to be a children's story?" Me too. But some day I might be able to swing it. :)