Whatz up doc?

We have been making a lot of doctor visits lately.  I guess it is the season for the nasty cold stuff.  We've been several times in the last couple months.  A couple times we just had the normal check-up exams for both kids.  The other times have been because of coughs or fevers.  Every time we go it seems like we are a circus act or something.

Early in January I took both kids.  I honestly can’t remember why we went that time.  I’m sure Luke or our baby girl had a cough.  Anyway, I had Luke walk in with his walker and I carried our baby girl.  While we were waiting in the exam room I parked his walker under the exam table and sat in a chair.  I had our baby girl on our lap and Luke stood in front of me.  But, instead of standing still like you would think he would do.  He cruised his way over to the door and proceeded to hang on to the door handle and at the same time he opened and shut the door…over and over again.

That day the doctor was running behind so we waited a good 20 minutes in the room.  It was funny how Luke would open the door, look out, laugh and then shut the door.  I saw the doctor go to the nurse’s station before coming to our room, and one nurse told him to watch out because Luke was playing with the door.  She and the doc got a laugh out of it and the doc said he’d make sure not to run him over.  Even so, Luke almost got run over in the process of nurses and the doc coming and going.  Every time I moved him out of the way, Luke would just cruise right back over to that door handle.  Silly little guy.

Well, today we went back to the doc…surprise … surprise.  Luke has a lingering low grade temp.  Our baby girl has also had a horrible cough and temp the last week.  She has also been fussy, and it turns out she has an ear infection of all things. 

Anyway…to the funny part of the day.  Once again I had Luke walk with his walker and I carried our baby girl inside, where I let her walk holding my hand.

So when we start down the hallway to the exam rooms I have Luke using his walker and I have our baby girl’s hand and we’re walking along.  Who is at the end of the hall?  The doctor!  While we are walking he starts teasing Luke and watching him walk, to see how well he is doing.  Then our baby girl decides she wants to show off her skills to the doctor too.  Instead of holding my hand she grabs a hold of the back of Luke’s walker and starts walking with Luke.  But that wasn’t enough, I think she thought Luke was going too slow, because she wound up pushing the walker so hard that Luke was forced to walk faster.  It was pretty funny to watch.  A couple times they were walking so fast Luke wasn’t able to control the direction of the walker and they hit a wall.  So then mommy had to come to the rescue and help both kids back up while holding on to the walker.  Crazy kids!