The Kids

Day 2

We spent the majority of the morning at the doctors office. They were running an entire hour behind schedule due to a new computer program that they were trying to get used to using. So I didn't actually see the doctor for my 10:30 appointment until nearly 11:30. The girls were great though - they are really good at entertaining themselves. We spent the time playing with lego and people watching. However, poor Raya was exhausted by the time the doctor came in and promptly fell asleep in my arms, and stayed that way back to the car and all the way home. We had to go back tot he clinic though because as soon as we pulled in the driveway I realized we left Raya's new doll there. So, back and forth we went, Raya sleeping the whole time.

You might be wondering where the whole "Sleepless" bit in the title comes from then? Well, Raya really could have slept more but woke up when we finally got in the house and I spent the rest of the afternoon and wel into the evening trying to get her to go back to sleep but had no luck until nearly 8:30 that night. Wow, was she cranky...

Other than that we had a pretty laid-back afternoon. Maelin has started asking me to tell her about "that man with the boat," a.k.a. Charles Darwin. I'm reading his first four books and I've been telling her about his voyagearound the world to observe all the different animals. She's really curious about that. Chalk that up with "the thing with a lot of words," a.k.a. gravity, all her questions about the moon, the fact that she knew how to say "echolocation" and what animals used it when she was 2, and that she asks about Sir Isaac Newton regularly, and I'm pretty sure we have a scientist on our hands. (Woot!!!)