This weekend

Günter came home sick with the flu on Thursday, so besides letting him be ill I had him call doctors offices to find out about the Jenna information. As it turned out, they DID fax the final report (of her hospital stay from May) and the receptionist said the doctor wouldn't talk on the phone with us but would rather have us come into an apointment for the results from the metabolic testing. The soonest they could give us was in November! I was beyond mad about this. Of course I go to the place of worry, wondering why the doctor has to see us in person--is this more bad news?! We do know that the genetic testing will need to be redone since the doctor doing it left for a new job and didn't complete it and apparently they said some of labs are invalid. Not sure when this will all take place, but I am pretty upset and angry about the situation. I don't want to retraumatize Jenna. I just remember the last day in the hospital and the complete melt downs she had and how I was not coping too well either. Now some of it was wasted time and efforts.

Since Friday was a German holiday (reunification day of the east and west) both kids were home. I took them to try out the Pirmasens pool called Plub. It only cost 4 euros--the kids were free. It is a bit dated, but had enough for the kids to enjoy it for 2.5 hours. I managed them okay by myself except once when Jenna ran off and by the time I was able to get up she was half way around a pool, so I thought I could cut her off by going over a bridge but she saw me and thought it was a game and went back the other way. I was afraid of slipping if I ran and even more afraid of her slipping is she started running. She was close to a deep pool and didn't have her swim vest on. I also noticed that the kids were a bit rusty on their swimming. I guess it has been a while and I need to keep it up regularly (we tried to do it once a month).

When I returned Günter felt better and had to get packed since they left Saturday at 5:30 am to fly to Chicago for a QA/customer satisfaction conference.

During the day Niki discovered the upstairs intercom phone (that buzzes people in the front door from upstairs) and thought it was a phone. Funny, since it has been there his whole life and just now he finds it on the wall. He found the button that buzzed and kept pushing it. He wasked me what it was for, and I should have made something up, but didn't. (I am getting a kick out of how much of a sponge he is lately and wants to understand things). I went outside and he was laughing his head off while asking me questions like "What is your long name?" "Where do you live?" After I answered correctly he would let me in (I had my key in hand just in case).

On Saturday he continually begged me to go out the front door so he could talk to me on the phone and buzz me in. This time Jenna got in the fun. The two of them took turns running up the stairs and answering the phone and buzzing while the other was outside the door. It kept them giggling for about 30 minutes until I broke it up since it was getting dark and cold.

I spent a good deal of saturday washing linens and finally got us all out of our jammies and went grocery shopping. Then I watched our church's Semi-Annual General Conference from our BYU tv (satalite). The kids were not at the high energy level so I was able to hear most of it. It was wonderful to have that spiritual boost. I even stayed up till 11 pm and watched half of the 2nd session.

Sunday we spent the day in our pajamas. I made french toast (the kids love sprinkling snow--powder sugar--on them) and they pretended they were dogs. Funny, funny stage they are in. Niki comes up with the imaginative play and Jenna joins in. They made a dog "cage" (Niki called it) with two chairs and a blanket.

Niki has really been into reading books lately. Their favorite is Dr. Suess "Green Eggs and Ham". Niki can complet most of the sentences, which totally amazes me since I only started reading that book 3 days ago to him. He also surprised me by saying most of his alphabet correctly. He can point to the right letters too (even when I mix them up). He used to know his numbers upto 10 quite well but now he always skips 4 and 5. Also he has been into playing family and assigning roles. He sometimes likes to be a baby (and crawls into my arms to cuddle) or he "marries" Jenna (he says he is her Hosband--and that time it is NOT a typo!). He sometimes asigns Jenna to be the daddy. It goes all the way around. Quite cute. He also is still talking alot about Brutus (my deceased cat) and heaven. He says funny things like he is going up to heaven and will see Jesus but Jesus won't see him because he will hide beind a cloud. He just cracks me up! For a while he was confused about death because he saw pictures and the many statutes around in the villages of Jesus being cruicified. So he said he didn't want to die because he didn't want to hang on a cross. We cleared that up--I hope.

Jenna totally surprised me today by going potty all by herself. It is nice that as they are getting older I don't have to keep an eye on them ALL the time now. So I was doing something and she came in with her pajamas bottoms around her feet and signed potty to me. I went in and sure enough she had got the potty seat and sat on it and peed! I was thrilled. Maybe she will learn this! I was more than happy to give her some candy for this feat!

I tried to watch our Sunday session of General Conference but the kids were too wild. They both took out the purse packs of kleenex and wrapped them up with napkins and masking tape then were throwing them around. Niki said he was doing "ballet" when he would spin like crazy and crash into things. Good thing I recorded these sessions and can watch later!

I feel very grateful for my life and amazed at all the blessing I have.

This is right after the wedding, I suppose!

Posted by Krista at October 5, 2008 08:46 PM