Our First Outing!

Zach is five days old and had his first appointment with the pediatrician. Of course, today couldn't be just an appointment with the doctor...no.

First, Chuck had to take Jackson to the base vet at 9 AM for have blood drawn to test his FLVN levels to begin his 180 day quarantine to prepare for our move to Japan. BTW, if you read my "Guam" post you will love this. They still thought Blaze had an appointment today and Chuck had to walk them through the reason why we didn't bring him. Yikes! Anyway, the clinic is closing so we have to finish the process with our regular vet out in town. I'm sure it will be more costly, but I bet they are a bit more clued in. Not knocking the Army vets at all, just this particular clinic seemed to be a bit disorganized.

While he was taking care of the dog I was trying to get CG, Z, and me ready for the 11:15 appointment at the pediatrician. For the most part it went well, but I was grateful when Chuck returned since the baby started crying as I was getting out of the shower. We were loaded up and on our way by 10:40. The appointment went well. Z is in great health and weighed in at 6 lb 13 oz. The doctor thinks that is fine, but asked us to return next week for a weight check just to make sure he is gaining since his birth weight was 7 lb 3.5 oz. I scheduled the appointment for next Thursday.

After we left the doctor's office, we were fairly hungry and decided to pick up some food from McDonald's since neither of us adults had had a chance to eat yet today. CG has been wanting to make a mask of The Firebird which is a ballet they have worked on during her ballet class. She described how it should look so we stopped at Michael's and picked up the stuff we needed to make the mask while Chuck stayed in the car with the baby.

We went home, ate, and took care of the baby. Chuck completed the forms and stuff so we could overnight Jackson's stuff through FedEx and before we knew it, it was time to take CG to her swim lesson. Z was such a sport and slept in his carseat the entire 30 minute lesson. Oh, I took some cute pics and video of CG during her lesson. She is doing GREAT! I'll post those later. Oh, CG was also so precious as she walked up to a mom from the group lesson before her lesson and informed her that she is now a big sister and to come look at her baby brother, Zachary. She is quite the proud big sister and also did the same to her instructor.

Once we were done with the lesson, we headed over to return The Lion King to Blockbuster and CG selected Pete's Dragon for family movie night tonight. I had not seen that movie since I was probably close to her age! Anyway, we put that on and Chuck had some recruiting work to do while I tended to the baby and had a friend drop by with dinner (yes, my Sunday School class collaborated and are bringing us dinner each night this work week). That was so nice of them and the food was really yummy!

That is pretty much a recap of our day. I'm looking forward to a more relaxing day tomorrow though. Today went really well, but I think it will take some time before I am good at coordinating scheduled outings for us.

Both kids are asleep so I'm going to do a couple of chores and try to get some sleep myself. Z allowed me to get a little bit last night and I'm continuing my prayers that that is the case tonight too.