Andrew Pollock: [life] Day 79: Magic, flu shots, and play dates and dinner
Zoe slept until 7:45am this morning, which is absolutely unheard of in our
house. She did wake up at about 5:15am yelling out for me because she'd kicked
her doona off and lost Cowie, but went back to sleep once I sorted that out.
She was super grumpy when she woke up, which I mostly attributed to being
hungry, so I got breakfast into her as quickly as possible and she perked up
afterwards.
Today there was a free magic show at the Bulimba Library at 10:30am, so we
biked down there. I really need to work on curbing Zoe's procrastination. We
started trying to leave the house at 10am, and as it was, we only got there
with 2 minutes to spare before the show started.
Magic Glen put on a really good
show. He was part comedian, part sleight of hand magician, and he did a very
entertaining show. There were plenty of gags in it for the adults. Zoe started
out sitting in my lap, but part way through just got up and moved closer to the
front to sit with the other kids. I think she enjoyed herself. I'd have no
hesitation hiring this guy for a future birthday party.
Zoe had left her two stuffed toys from the car at Megan's house on Tuesday
after our Port of Brisbane tour, and so after the magic show we biked to her
place to retrieve them. It was close to lunch by this stage, so we stayed for
lunch, and the girls had a bit of a play in the back yard while Megan's little
sister napped.
It was getting close to time to leave for our flu shots, so I decided to just
bike directly to the doctor from Megan's place. I realised after we left that
we'd still left the stuffed toys behind, but the plan was to drive back after
our flu shots and have another swim their neighbour's pool, so it was all good.
We got to the doctor, and waited for Sarah to arrive. Sarah and I weren't
existing patients at Zoe's doctor, but we'd decided to get the flu shot as a
family to try and ease the experience for Zoe. We both had to do new patient
intake stuff before we had a consult with Zoe's doctor and got prescriptions
for the flu shot.
I popped next door to the adjacent pharmacy get the prescriptions filled, and
then the nurse gave us the shots.
For the last round of vaccinations that Zoe received, she needed three, and she
screamed the building down at the first jab. The poor nurse was very shaken, so
we've been working to try and get her to feel more at ease about this one.
Zoe went first, and she took a deep breath, and she was winding up to freak out
when she had her shot, but then it was all over, and she let the breath go, and
looked around with a kind of "is that it?" reaction. She didn't even cry. I was
so proud of her.
I got my shot, and then Sarah got hers, and we had to sit in the waiting room
for 10 minutes to make sure we didn't turn into pumpkins, and we were on our
way.
We biked home, I grabbed our swim gear, and we drove back to Megan's place.
The pool ended up being quite cold. Megan didn't want to get in, and Zoe didn't
last long either. Megan's Mum was working back late, so I invited Megan, her
Dad and her sister over for dinner, and we headed home so I could prepare it.
One of Zoe's stuffed toys had been located.
We had a nice dinner of deviled
sausages made in the Thermomix, and for a change I didn't have a ton of
leftovers. Jason had found the other stuffed toy in his truck, so we'd finally
tracked them both down.
After Megan and family went home, I got Zoe to bed without much fuss, and
pretty much on time. I think she should sleep well tonight.