3.5 Hours of Our Day

This morning we left the house at 7:30am to head to Wichita Falls to get the kids' check-ups. After much waiting, we ended up with the following stats:

Ella:
28.8 lbs, 34.25 inches

Jacob:
38.3 lbs, 40.25 inches

There was a little trauma when both kids had to have a finger prick, but they calmed down in time to do some developmental tests. Part of Jacob's test required him to draw with a pencil. Once he finished, he continued to draw while the nurse asked us more questions. Then Ella decided she wanted to draw too. She climbed up, grabbed the pencil, and played tug-of-war with Jacob until she ended up getting a scratch right below her eye. This took a total of 5 seconds and was supervised by three adults. Once we had her calmed down from that, she was walking out the door and hit her head on the corner of the exam table. More crying. Then once we got her calmed down AGAIN... she got a shot for Hep A. After all that, Ella was the one calling the shots for lunch. She chose pizza, so we headed over to Double Dave's for the buffet. We tried to get the kids their first snow cone, but the place was closed. We headed back home and Ella fell asleep in the car.

It was too windy to play outside, but once the electricity went out, we went outside to find all the neighbors gathered talking. That's when I found out that everything was on fire. Grandma cam home soon and the power came back on and we spent the rest of the evening finding out whether we needed to evacuate or not. What a day!