Day 1045. We got up around 7:45 am this morning, and as they had woken up a little later than usual, they had not done anything they shouldn't have. After breakfast, we cleaned them up and dressed them, and I went downstairs with them, where we read a Bible story. Then I went upstairs. Tammy and Emmy wanted to come with me to welcome the Mobile Support lady. Just after we had come upstairs, the doorbell rang. By the time she walked in, Sammy had crawled to the staircase and greeted her from downstairs. She then went downstairs with Tammy and Emmy, where she played with them for 90 minutes. As for me, I went to work on the computer.
They came upstairs early so I could apply the cream on the blisters on their tongues to numb them so they could eat. However, it doesn't seem to work, and Tammy and Emmy can now eat without pain, even without the cream. As you have to wait for 15 minutes before eating, it was after noon before we sat down to eat. Emmy didn't want to eat the soup, didn't even try, Tammy did well eating it, and Sammy was in pain after trying to eat it. They all had quite a bit of icecream. After cleaning them up, I dressed them already in the clothes to wear to music class and then put them to bed instead of going downstairs with them. It was about 1 pm.
Tammy did not want to lie down and sleep at first, but thankfully she fell asleep rather quickly as well in the end. They ended up having plenty of time. I was surprised, when Emmy walked into the room having slept less than an hour. He did not want to go downstairs, where Randy was, not did he want to sleep with me. I had been working and not closed my eyes for a nap yet, even though I needed it bad. It wasn't meant to be today. After a while Emmy's noise woke up his sister, and then also his brother. They would have had quite a bit more time to sleep!
Randy came upstairs, and just before 3 pm we left the house. Originally we were going to take the tram, and as more than half the trains are old ones the double stroller doesn't fit into, Tammy and Emmy were on tricycles today. I knew that Sammy's single stroller fit through the tram door. But going there we took two busses. Unfortunately the first bus was late, and so we missed our second bus and had to wait for the next one. Once we got off, we still had to walk a little bit. We had never been to this location of the school before. We found the entrance and a big staircase; the ramp was quite a detour. And so I took Emmy and Tammy inside with me, where there was another big staircase to get to the school. We walked upstairs and asked where the class was taking place. We were already late for it. When we walked into the room, I was surprised at how many children there were. We all took our shoes off and sat down on an available mat.
Now this is the third teacher they've had at that school, and two other teachers before this school. Every teacher does it a little bit differently, which brings some variety. This one did a few songs we didn't know, and as had done the last teacher, she had them draw, which is always puzzling to me for a music class. She also had some instruments, and Emmy surprised me, when he didn't pick the drum. It turned out that the reason was that he had not seen a stick. Later he found one and immediately started drumming with it.
At first Tammy and Emmy were just sitting down by me, and I had a hard time trying to get them to participate. I could only move one kid's limbs at the time to do the actions. It was their first time in that class, so they'll probably loosen up over time. One thing that was surprising was that we never did any songs walking in a circle. I never had to get up once during the whole class.
After 50 minutes it was over, and we left. We were right by a big mall, and Randy had been wanting to get my ring checked, and so we went inside, but the jeweler wouldn't do it. And so we left and walked to the tram stop. Unfortunately the next tram was an old one, and we had not made a detailed plan how to proceed. It was pure chaos trying to get everyone and everything up the stairs into this old tram. The stroller barely fit, and it was tilted all the way to the back with stuff falling out of the bottom, while the old tram door automatically tried to close and I had to use all my strength to keep it open. It's a miracle Sammy didn't fall out. At the same time Tammy was right there sitting on the tricycle and screaming, with Randy crushing her, while Emmy had simply walked to the back of the tram, and we could not see him and were shouting his name. Thankfully some people were helping, picking up what had fallen out of the stroller and pointing at Emmy in the back, who simply would not move our direction. Finally he came back to us, and we all sat down. Tammy was frantic, and I did my best to calm her down. She freaked out again, when Sammy dropped his pacifier on the floor that I had given him because he wanted out of the stroller and was crying. We're trying to not have them use pacifiers during the day any more.
And then it was time to get off. This time we did a better job. I got the kids out on the sidewalk, we did better getting Sammy in the stroller through the door, though it was hard, and then we got the tricycles out that they then sat on. We still had a good walk ahead of us to get home. Tammy was still on edge, and so I put her on my shoulders, while pushing Sammy in the stroller. When the reached the last building before ours, where there is a tiny playground, they wanted to stop there. Tammy and Emmy did some see-sawing there. Randy put Sammy on the tricycle, as he loves sitting on it. After a few minutes we left again, and Sammy stayed on the tricycle. Tammy walked at first, then I put her into Sammy's stroller, which excited her. Sammy did really well on the tricycle; thankfully it has a seat belt. He rode on it all the way home, which wasn't far.
Just after 5 pm we were back home. The kids immediately asked to watch Paw Patrol. I went downstairs with them and turned it on for them, then set a timer for when to stop it. As cranky as they were, that would keep them busy for a while. I sat down by my computer, but time was short until 6 pm. That was also the time the video ended. It was pretty obvious, when Tammy and Emmy started crying hard. And so Randy came upstairs with them, just as I was starting to make their dinner. I wanted to put the cream on their tongues, but they wouldn't let me. Only Sammy got it, but they were able to eat anyway. Until then they went out on the balcony and blew bubbles. About 6:30 pm we sat down to eat. I had made corn on the cobb for them, as they love it so much, and all three ate it. Sammy soon started saying he was in pain again. After they had eaten quite a bit, they got up to go into the bathtub, where they had some more food, while playing. They also had some icecream there. Then they came out one after another. By about 7:40 pm they were all in bed.
I sat down by them and stayed until about 8:15. They had all fallen asleep quickly today, thank God. Nobody complained, when I went to the kitchen to make my salad, which is time-intensive. It took a long time before I could sit down to eat. After I was done, I went back to work. Now it's midnight, and I'm thankful they've all stayed in their beds and slept, even though Sammy cried a few times. Last night was the first night that he kept his braces on all night.
