Pediatrician's are driving me insane

First a little background before I explain our current situation here... Last week we had Pete's 15mo & Cath's 3yr Pediatric appt. with a intolerable pediatrician who shall go unnamed at this time. This pediatrician and I do not have a good track record considering she diagnosed Pete with a ear infection when he actually had all the signs and symptoms of Influenza Type A, and I had to literally stop her from writing me the prescription for his "ear infection" and demand she test him for the flu before dismissing us. Guess what Pete ended up having, you guessed it Influenza Type A.

Back to last week now, I asked the ped. to give us a referral to a Pediatric Hematologist so we can be 100% sure she did not inherit Jason's blood disorder. Even after both Jason and I carefully explained the whole situation to her the ped. could not understand why we would want to get Cath tested! Fortunately she did agree to the referral, but we never got it at that visit because she needed to ask her colleagues if we really needed this referral. Well, we got the referral today but there's a small problem... The stupid ped. never mentioned that Cath would need bloodwork drawn to be sent to the Pediatric Hematologist to review before we could even make the appointment!!! So now we get to visit the ped. office for the bloodwork on Tues., wait a few days then call and try to make the appt with the Pediatric Hematologist again, fun!

I'm beginning to think a new doctor is in order.

A new week, a new plan

We survived all the craziness of last week!! From getting over the flu, Cath's birthday, family member's not being on speaking terms with us for days, a road trip to Central NY, meeting Jason's family, then spending the weekend with my family, and let's not forget Easter; I feel like I need a vacation just to recover from all that!

Fortunately we're now home, thankfully. Family troubles are now officialy on hold until mid-April. So, this week to celebrate Easter we're rowing "The Little Rabbit". Plans are to make some bunny cookies may'be tomorrow, and make a bunny shaped carrot cake Thurs.

As far as the art thing goes, I think I've had a epiphany. When I'm looking for art projects to coordinate with our weekly book I must carefully screen each project, literally pretend like I'm Cath and ask myself if she'd like this sort of thing. I've learned recently that Cath likes to trace things, and she loves the glue stick(with her hair, heaven help us). And, since I already know Cath hates to color I've figured out that the best way to start a project is to print out the Color template; if I ask Cath to color first well then I may as well introduce that project to the recycling bin.

Back to normal, health wise!

The flu is finally been purged from the house, *fingers crossed and knocking hard on wood*. It seems to have passed over Catharina thank heavens, of us all Cath is the most miserable when sick, thankfully she rarely gets sick. So, next on the list is to survive Pete's 15mo & Cath's 3yr Pediatric appt. and then on to the much dreaded 1st Dental appt. for Cath, not fun.

School wise, still no interest being shown in any of our projects despite repeated effort and new tactics used by both me and Jason. Oh well, we did have fun at the Aviation Museum and Cath even dressed up as a aviator and got her picture taken; although I had to "help" her hold still for the picture and she outright refused to make a picture frame. Pete had a great time too, he kept trying to either romance the other little girls or sneak off towards the stairs the entire time I was "helping" Catharina. These kid's wear me out.

FLU!

Pete had flu over the weekend, despite having the shot, and now I have it despite getting the shot. What a waste of $35! I'm not holding out much hope for Catharina not getting it considering these odds, and Jason didn't bother to get the shot because he didn't think it would be worth it. Right now Jason seems like the smartest one of the bunch. The only fortunate thing here is that his wonderful workplace is taking pity on us and letting Jason work from home today and tomorrow, and I think he may try to wheedle tomorrow out of them too and make it a long weekend.

As I had previously been worried about Cath has decided she wants nothing to do with any of the coloring, projects, and activities I put together for her; no real suprise there. I don't believe this child has 1 artistic bone in her body! She loves to run around, work on puzzles, sort/stack things, play with dolls, be a make believe princess, read and discuss books... but when it comes to art it's just no use there's zero interest there. I asked Jason about how he viewed art at a young age and found that he and Cath are remarkably alike on this subject, so I guess it's a family thing. I give, may'be Pete will be my artistic child.

Rowing "Play With Me"

Currently we are using a Montessori approach to homeschooling our preschooler, with the help of Before Five In A Row(BFIAR), and www.homeschoolshare.com. We have been loving every minute of BFIAR, with lots of cuddles on the couch while reading classic children's books and really fun activities, we are trying to make the most of these precious formative years.

So, this week we started "rowing" our 2nd book, "Play With Me", from BFIAR. I'm almost as excited as Catharina is, who knew preschool was so much fun? I finally have all our projects cut, pasted and ready to start work on; now I just have to hope Cath will be in the mood to venture into trying something remotely artsy for once. Well, even if she doesn't feel artsy we have some fun museum trips planned for the latter part of the week. So, I guess either way this week will be productive somehow.