Yesterday we went for Nathan’s two month well check for the THIRD time. Heh? Ok let me back it up a bit.

Two and a half weeks ago was the first time. But we walked out without seeing the doctor. There was a mix up on us filling out paperwork and basically Nathan had no health insurance. NO HEALTH INSURANCE. Scary phrases were thrown around like: you only had 30 days to add him and if you’ve missed the open enrollment you might have to wait until next year and we might be sending you a bill for his past visits.

We were so stressed. I actually cried at the receptionist’s desk. I think it was lack of sleep. Either that or I’m a big blubbering whale.

So, we went home and Alan called the union hall and they said oh we’ll just mail out the forms and you can mail it back and we’ll retroactive it to October. We were still stressing so the very next day, right after our homeschool meet up group (and yes I know I STILL haven’t talked about that), we drove over to the union hall to see if we could pick up the paperwork and fill it out right there.

Unfortunately for us, but fortunately for Isabelle, the office that accepted the paperwork was in a different location, Milpitas. Sucks because our stress was dragged out a few days but so fun for Isabelle because we decided to drive down there. Milpitas is where the Great Mall is. Acccck malls!! Run away and hide.

Actually, I did quite well in the beginning. Alan was surprised at my lack of hyperventilating. We went and bought some pants for Isabelle who has outgrown everything. And the funniest thing, she went all gaga over the mannequins. She kept wanting to touch them and asked why they were frozen.

Do I seriously not go shopping enough at real stores that Isabelle doesn’t know what a mannequin is?!

Well anyhoo, getting to the fortunately for Isabelle part…at the dreadful mall they had a bouncer house place. Bouncers everywhere. It’s sort of like a Chuck E. Cheese except there are bouncers.

They had the biggest freaking jumper I’ve ever seen. Looks like a whole bunch of fun huh? Well sure, if you’re a kid. But not if you’re me. They had signs around that said no adults in bouncers. And you had to wear socks, which I didn’t have. Can you imagine my torment? All that bouncing and sliding and I’m supposed to act like an adult and not join in? No fair.

And I couldn’t sneak in because I’m a goober. I thought, well I’m an adult AND I have no socks so it’s like double whammy if I break the rules. I’m a dork. So after hours of not jumping around and watching all the kids have fun we went home. Boo bouncer house place! Boo! BOO! BOO!!!

So, back to Nathan’s doctor appointment. We rescheduled it and on Wednesday we went in only to find that we were a day late. I got the date wrong. A whole day! So they rescheduled it again for yesterday and we finally got Nathan’s two month well check done.

And my big boy weighs a whopping 15 pounds and 1.8 ounces. That’s in the 95th percentile. You know, I really don’t notice how big he is until I see the pictures. And when I read the medicine listing that says 4-11 months as 12-17 pounds. Errm ok. Is he really that big?!?

I’m running out of room on my hard drive. Well, when I say running out, I mean about 4 gigs of space. Crazily, that’s how much hard drive space total of my first iMac.

But anyhoo, as I was saying, I’m running out of space. One of these days I’m going to have to start deleting files. Yikes!! I have to do some serious backing up. Right now I have everything backed up on a backup drive. But what I cherish the most are our pictures and having a single backup source isn’t enough. I have a few months of Isabelle’s pictures backed up on CDs. And then I have everything except 10 months backed up on Shutterfly. I need to have backups of the backups before I start removing stuff.

So, that brings me to this video. I found it when scouring my files looking for other stuff to delete besides my precious pictures. My sister and I made this about 8 years ago back when I didn’t have a real digital camera. We made it with my camcorder that could take snapshots. It was dark and we didn’t have flash but it was fun.

Worm’s day on Flickr

My sister made the birds out of clay or playdoh. I cannot even remember. I wish I had the original files because in the original small grainy video you can see the toothpick used to help the chicken stand. I photoshopped it out but missed a few frames. Now I only have the finished video files but I like the first video better because I am a big child. But if you read regularly, you know that already.

And if you don’t, here are some pictures demonstrating that fact. See, little kid riding:

Little kid and big kid riding:

The big round thing is like a tilted merry go round except you have nothing to hold onto. As other parents stood around watching their kids play on it, I jumped on.

At the bottom of the incline I kept falling off. But that’s totally fun too. The trick for me was to sit up so the gravity of my big butt wouldn’t pull me off.

I want a dress almost like this peppermint stick holiday frock except no way in hell am I fitting a size 5 much less a 2. And I pencil skirt? I’m askeered to see what my butt would look like in one of those. Maybe something with a full skirt instead?