Toddler City

Thank god for indoor play parks. Mizz and I rolled down the street today to check out the indoor park FIVE BLOCKS away. Yes! It is open everyday, costs one dollar, and we can walk there. It is close to this mama's idea of heaven--the only thing that would have made it better would have been margaritas. Juat kidding. It was so fun playing basketball with Mizz--which nicely encompasses his old love of putting things into something else, and his new love of balls. He shrieks with delight and will run like a maniac after them. It was hilarious to watch all the tots propel various types of kid vehicles around the gym. Mizz even got to practice fueling up a car and made himself wild by going up and down the slide so many times. Another cool bonus was that when we got there it was all boys. I got to see Mizz in his element, meaning six active boys running around reveling in their athleticism. Mizz was particularly enraptured by an older guy pedaling around on a trike. Mizz has only mastered pushing himself backward at this point, but he has a blast doing it.

The second half of the day was not nearly as fun as we waited nearly 45 mins for a resident to get to us to explain what we had already faxed over so that we could then wait some more for the doc to tell us what we already pretty much knew. Waiting in an unchildproofed medical exam room with a tired tot ain't as fun as you would imagine. It took all the energy and creativity Dave and I had to keep the wild beast away from the scopes, buttons, and stir ups present. So unless our ped tells us something wild tomorrow, Dave and I are pretty sure that we are going to do the ear tubes. Mizz appears to have chronic fluid in his ear that definitely contributes to his ear infections and is probably delaying his speech in both clarity and content. I am trying to not think about Mizz and surgery. I know it's simple and routine, but I wanted to cry just at the sight of the Children's Hospital today so I am not completely rational in this area.