Life's been good to me so far

Today is my day to go to the chiropractor, he's at the birth center from 10-12. Grant forgot that and scheduled a meeting that couldn't be rescheduled. So, I ended up taking all of the kids, by myself, to my chiro appt...and you can imagine the cloud of forboding that settled over the van on the way there...

It was incredible! I couldn't freakin believe it. We got to the center and Taj, this one midwife's son who's kind of always running around outside, came running over to play with A and A. He had a Nerf style foam baseball bat and ball. I told them that as long as they stayed inside the fenced in playground area NO MATTER WHAT AND I WOULD BE CHECKING ON THEM, they could stay outside and play with Taj. The b.c. is kind of isolated, surrounded by bushes on one side, fence on the other, parking lot over here, trees over there, and that playground only has one opening that's on the side with the parking lot, not the street. It still made me nervous, though.

So, I go into the chiro's office with Isaac in tow, and I set him down expecting him to immediately start crying, because we were in a weird place with a weird guy and I've left him with sitters at the center before, which he is ambivalent about. Instead he stands right there looking around. I suggest to him, rather optimistically, that there are chairs nearby that he could sit in if he wants to. HE WENT AND CLIMBED UP AND SAT IN A CHAIR. And then he stayed in it, sitting quietly and watching, while I got all my adjustments.

I carry him out, crooning to him about how wonderful he is, and Ananda and Aaron are still playing in the fenced in area. Aaron was near the gate, which was open, in a potential energy sort of stance, so I talked to them about staying in the fence again, and went in the main bulding with Isaac to pay my payment (chiro is covered, but I'm paying on the OB consult and ultrasound from weeks back) and get my blood test results from last week. I set Isaac down, again, waiting for him to tear into the his-level printer of paper or start grabbing the phone off the desk or run to the water machine and make a mess, and he just goes up to the pics of newborns, saying "baby" over and over as he points, to the "Aww"s of all around us. The secretary is ready to talk to me, so I point out the toys in the adjacent play room to him, and he GOES OVER AND STARTS PLAYING, and keeps it up all the while I'm talking to this lady, getting my receipt, waiting for her to finish a phone call, asking for my results.

I had to pee and she had to find my file, so I said, "Come with me to the bathroom Isaac, I have to use the toilet" and he followed o_O He came in when I opened the door. When I opened it again to come out, he didn't bolt in the opposite direction or refuse to come out...he just CAME. And walked beside me to get my results from Angela, and stopped when we got to her, staying within 10 feet of us in his little looking around. We peeked out the window and saw A and A having fun in the playgroud. She gave me my results (I'll get to that*), and then he walked right out with me to "go get Annie and Aaron and have a snack".

Outside the kids told me Taj wanted them to come look at other things in different places, but they told him they weren't allowed outside of the fence. We got to the van and they hopped right up into their seats and put their seat belts on stat (they can do that with their new boosters), Isaac didn't complain about getting restrapped after the hour ride up there (he had slept through it, granted) and I passed out granola bars.

Totally amazing.

*My hemoglobin is good, no anemia, which is cool because Shari compared my fingerprick droplet to a color chart that suggested I might be having trouble there, as I have in the past, so I was wondering. Platelets are "eh"...I was dissapointed. Normal range is 150,000-300,000. Under 100,000 is considered dangerous. When I was hospitalized while pregnant with Isaac, I was at 94,000. When I got them tested earlier in this pregnancy, I was at 165,000 - which Shari wasn't crazy about, but didn't think was horrible. This time I was 132,000. BUT, Angela told me that between 28 and 30 weeks preg is when they drop the lowest, and then start to go back up some, in people like me - I'm 29w5d. So hopefully when they test again at 36 weeks the number will be higher. In the meantime I am going to be a banana eating, iron taking fool, and might end up looking into some kind of herbal supplement Shari was saying raises platelets levels significantly. I want to use that as a last resort, though, because she was telling me that if you take too much it can be dangerous.