The last few days have just been me, Mum and Dad and the girls as Pete has been away at a conference. It hasn't really felt like a weekend until the end and now it's over and into another week. Sad as it's the last week with Mum and Dad. In fact Dad leaves on Wednesday, but Mum not till Sunday.
Pete's conference has been good. Tiring for him as he's had whole days talking to new people and then more meet and greets at evening functions. But overall he was pleased with how it all went.
We've been doing more shopping (of course). I start to realise just how much shopping we're doing when Naomi's bedtime prayer goes something like this:
"Thank you God for the shopping trolley," (a special one with a kids car on the front)," and thank you God for the shops and the other shops and the other shop". Pete did look at me as if to say "no prizes for guessing what you've been doing while I've been away!"
I've spent a long time on the phone trying to sort out finding us a local doctor but have met all sorts of opposition on the insurance side of things. It's incredibly complicated. We have an international policy, looked after in the US by an American insurance company, and they don't seem to have any affiliated doctors in Anchorage. Eventually, I think I've managed to find somewhere for the kids to go but not Pete and I yet. I don't think we'll have out of pocket expenses but I'll believe that after the first appointment. We're taking Naomi tomorrow to get her immunisations and physical that she needs to be properly enrolled into her childcare. They have a slightly different schedule from Australia for immunisations so she has to have a couple more jabs. Not looking forward to it as she's much more aware now of what is going on and she's also pretty strong and willful! Hopefully between Mum & Dad, the doctor and I, we should manage to get the needles into her. Any prayers appreciated.
Not sure if I mentioned that we bought a chest freezer for our garage and Mum and Dad kindly took me to Costco to stock it up. Mum also bought me a cookbook focussing on freezing meals so I plan to do more bulk cooking so that on nights I can't be bothered to cook, I can just whip a home cooked meal out of the freezer. I'm sadly excited by this new way of doing our meals.
A concerning part of the last few days has been Naomi saying her first American word. At childcare they watched an episode of Spot the Dog. She was talking about it afterwards but we couldn't understand what she was talking about. The next day Mum gave her a Spot the Dog sticker book. She immediately started saying the same word she had been saying after childcare which we had interpreted as Spud. She was saying "Spuut" rather than "Spot". It's very amusing hearing her. It'll be so interesting seeing how their accents develop from having an English parent, an Australian parent and American teachers and friends.
Mum & Dad continue to go above and beyond in helping us out. Dad has even had two days in the last four where he has cleaned poo out of the bath after Lydia had a little accident. Not really necessary for a Grandpop but very much appreciated that I didn't have to do it. Mum is being an emotional support as well as providing incredible meals for us all and looking after the girls and a million other things. Dreading them leaving.
Church today was good but again Naomi started to act up afterwards. Managed to prevent the tantrums that we experienced last week but it's very interesting that there's something about it that she's not happy with. She doesn't cry when we leave her now and she seems to really like the lady who takes care of her in there. We're wondering if she's exhausted or maybe if they're giving her biscuits that are high in sugar and she's just reacting to that as she doesn't have much sugar in her diet. Guess we'll keep an eye on it and talk more to the lady in her room next week. I had to stay with Lydia for a while this week as last week she didn't fall asleep in the nursery there. So I stayed to get her to sleep and then she was absolutely fine.
Lydia is starting to get somewhere with her crawling now. She launches up onto her toes and hands in a push-up position and today she then leaned forward before coming down on her tummy. Not the most elegant way of moving forward but at least she managed to get to the toy which had been placed just out of her reach. Don't think it will be long before she is crawling about the place. Scary thought!
Obviously Naomi is over-the-moon to have her Daddy back. No more trips away for a little bit so she should be happy. That's all for now folks. Chat again soon.
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