Greys, coffee and reflections.

Alright. It's been well over a week since I have updated this. I've been able to actually sit down and try to actually process what happened while we were down in Vancouver. I've also been able to read over the rest of the paperwork and slowly digest.

While we were away my mum not only had to deal with both R2D2 and Tink having Hand-Foot-and-Mouth, being stuck in town (which really isn't a place she wants to be stuck in for a week!), cleaning my house and then bleaching it all...she took the time to actually start and make progress with getting Tink potty trained! I'm not sure what she did exactly 100% or her methods but my little 2 year old makes YAY on the potty! Both kinds of YAY! She's been using the potty for almost a week now and she's in panties almost all day now except for nap and bed time. Granted, we haven't taken her out of the house without diapers, but hey, progress!

R2D2 is happy to finally be allowed to go out and do things these days rather then being stuck at home without being able to go to school, friends or go out and doing whatever it is he wanted to do. He missed almost a week of school and was able to catch up on his missed school work within a half hour, ace a spelling test he didn't really have time to study for and got to try out his brand spanking new digital piano we got for him.

It's hard getting back into the swing of things after being away from home for so long. I don't really want to do much of anything these days. I'm not sure if it's the whole lack of motivation or the weather...or possibly the whole shebang of everything that happened. Or a groovy combination of it all. My head feels foggy and strange. Like there's a large disconnect between head and shoulders. To much coffee? Is there ever really a thing?

I tried to clean the fishtank yesterday. Somehow though I have managed to misplace a pleco. I'm wondering if it stupid thing is dead in the gravel somewhere, which could explain the massive amounts of algae we had growing in there. That and you know, my mum didn't realize that the light turned off! So pretty sure that didn't help matters at all. Do fish eat other fish? I mean, I know sharks do. But will goldfish and guppies, hell even the other pleco turn on a dead one and eat it? Can goldfish even digest bones? Wait... are fish seriously cannibals?!

I'm finally all caught up on the newest season of Grey's. I started it yesterday. Finished it today. Now waiting for Thursday to come along so I can watch it. I think I quite possibly might be needing some GAA. There should be a group. I know fellow Grey's Addicts. Pretty sure we need help! I wonder if there's a 12-step program. I wonder if there's a 12-step program we can take to get Yang back. I'm worried Owen's going to start in on Amelia. Or Maggie. Ew. That would just be weird. Amelia seems to be right up Owen's broken alley. C'mon Yang. Come baaaaAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaack. Owen neeeeeeeeeeeds you.

See? Told you I need help.

Dinky is now 10lbs11oz. Meaning next week, if he keeps going the way he's going, he will be an even Stephen 11 lbs! I also need to call his Ped tomorrow to see if we can get an appointment locally to discuss his head x-ray that happened almost 2 weeks ago (holy crap it's been that long already?!), to see if his soft heart murmur is really benign or not (Gen Spec said it was but how can you really know) and just give him an all around once over. He's got a bit of a cough going right now and it's not making me very happy.

He needs to have the rest of his lab work done but I'm still waiting for the papers that the lab at BCCH forgot to send to us. The longer they take, the longer it is before we possibly know what's going on with him because you know, genetic mapping and all that funky jazz takes forever. Did however talk to one of the nurses for the Cleft Palate people for almost an hour the other day. Once we know the MRI date, she'll hopefully be able to get us in for a consult for the Peds C/P plastic surgeon to take a look at him and see what's going on. So the referral has been sent in and we should hear from them in the next couple of weeks.


We also have an appointment with the Peds Ophthalmologist for December 30th in PG. Which is nice. Just a daytrip with a bunch of driving. No big deal. What's approximately 6-7 (total -- round trip) hours in the truck? Nothing if you ask me!

Enough with that now.

So, Husby is done for Christmas. I ordered a few more things for the kids. A coupe stocking stuffers for Dinky as we have all the stocking stuff for the big kids stashed away in Dinky's closet. I'm awesome. I'm also a little sickened as to how much has been spent so far on Christmas. Though not just for my kids/husband. That's including Husby's parents, my SiL and her two kids, something for my mum...and then well, husby and the kids.

I need a hobby so I can try and cut the cost of Christmas down even more for next year. But for now...

I'm wondering if I should go get a wooden spoon and dig around in the gravel in that blasted tank and see if I could maybe stir up that stupid missing pleco. It's a fish. How could it have gone missing?!