Remember how I made yet another decision about which stroller to get and decided to get two, a double-wide BOB for now and an in-line once we’re in Philadelphia next year? Just kidding AGAIN! Thanks to @runningfromthecuccos I was reminded that Phil & Ted’s makes an in-line jogging stroller - basically exactly what I’ve been looking for! A double stroller with three wheels but with the footprint of a single stroller. I spent about three hours online this weekend looking up every review and details about it and finally clicked purchase on their Sport double version (so please don’t tell me it sucks now). Excited to have this decision finally over with and move forward with it!
This morning, erp and I went to a 9 a.m. speech therapy appointment for her! At her 18 month check-up the pediatrician recommended she get evaluated and so we did! She’ll be 19 months tomorrow and has yet to definitively say anything other than “yeah!” :) While adorable, I’d love to hear “mama” or literally anything!
After being super shy at first, which seems to be erp’s go-to mode, she opened up and seemed to warm up really well to the evaluator. She was babbling right along and playing with the toys and made a great impression! All was hunky dory (other than my being super hot and sweating while in the room - thanks pregnancy) until erp pulled the bubbles out of her diaper bag and handed them to the evaluator. She asked if she could lower her mask to blow on the wand, to which I said yeah sure no problem! But then she informed me that she’s unvaccinated so I asked that she not. Awkwardddddd. She then, unprompted, told me three times during the appointment how grateful she was to my understanding of her personal decision. Which, I get. But also. YOU WORK WITH KIDS. WHO CAN’T GET VACCINATED. WTF IS YOUR PROBLEM.
They want us to start going weekly, which sounds annoying and expensive but gotta suck it up. Erp’s worth it and we don’t want her falling too far behind. While I liked the evaluator and how she interacted with erp, I am glad to hear that the therapist who will be working with her moving forward is someone else. Hopefully a vaccinated someone else. Kevin said that if it turns out she’s unvaccinated as well, we can ask to see if we can be paired with someone who is. So weird that these are things to worry about.
In other news, my 15 year old cat Saki has been spraying randomly throughout the house for the last two months. We thought it was just in one spot upstairs but now it turns out it’s at least in two places. He’s NEVER done this before. Other than the spraying, he’s acting totally normal so I don’t think he’s sick, just acting out? His litterbox is always clean and he has access to food and water constantly. I got that Feliway diffuser to try and help calm him down but it hasn’t seemed to make a difference. The next step is to take him to the vet to see if anything else is going on, but when looking up appointments online the soonest availability is in two weeks. Since I’m sure I’ll have a baby by then it doesn’t make sense to book it right now unless I do so for the end of next month. Since he doesn’t seem to act like he’s feeling poorly I don’t feel the urgency around it other than mourning the destruction of these previously perfectly white carpets.
