I never thought that the expectation that is given to foster parents to be the child's advocate would be a necessary trait when dealing with agencies that are designed to support the children.
Round 2 of attempting to go to the Doctor (or as Sissy says "Docunh")
We get there 10 minutes early with all our paperwork in hand, including a letter from DHS (Department of Human Services) that states that if the insurance is not in the system that they will be good for the payment. Surprise! The letter isn't worth the paper it is written on. Things go on and on for nearly an hour and then we are going to be able to get 1 of 2 seen. I call our DHS liason and leave a very frustrated message. She then calls back and asks me to give my phone to someone at the clinic... okay, these people are busy. This is a public assistance clinic afterall. This isn't suburbia with its nice waiting rooms with a few things to keep toddlers occupied. This is 50 chairs in a room with 3 lines of people checking in. So I give her a number to the clinic and she calls them. Luckily there is someone there that is able to understand our predicament and we get to go in!
We have 2 toddlers that we have been wrangling for an hour at this point. There is no way they are going to behave. We barely get our height and weight taken. I pretty much had to hold Bug to the wall to get her height. On to our exam room. They don't want to cooperate with anything.
As we are doing our visit we have a lot of paperwork for day care and for our foster care. They are asking us questions and we are like "I don't know" and they think we are crazy. On one question I asked Sissy "Does mommy smoke" and "Does grandma smoke" and luckily she cooperates on that. I think only one person truly understood that we have had these children for less than 3 weeks. We know as much about their medical history as they do.
Bug needs 5 shots at this visit and luckily 3 of them are able to be combined to 1. She is a trooper, but it did take 2 to hold her down. Sissy was just awful about cooperating and I finally just had to let her sit in a chair and have her meltdown and ignore her. In the end we did get our paperwork done (hopefully the day care doesn't mind sloppy work as the Dr. was not very thorough) and we got our clear of lice letter!
Now we get to do all this again in September for Bugs 30 month checkup.
After the Dr. visit we had to hurry home and nearly throw food at the kids. They were turning into ugly monsters. Sissy downed 2 tacos and Bug happily mushed through her burrito and beans and beans and beans. They both also tore up some tomatoes. I was then off to work and Squirrel was home for the afternoon. Fortunately the Dr. visit also tired them out as they were asleep soon for a 2+ hour nap.
We have been sacrificing a lot of our own time to care for the duo so tonight I convinced Squirrel to go to the training run and I would take the kids to the park. I love the fenced in park. It gives the kids the freedom to run and play and I don't have to worry as much. We were good until we got a little hungry, but then Squirrel came and we were able to head home for some hot dogs.
Our challenge today was with Sissy and how she is becoming demanding. We aren't standing for it and it is creating some friction, but we can't have a three year old demanding you make her a snack right now. We handle a lot of this with "You have 2 options" and we let her play or nap. For some reason she always chooses play.
After dinner we did our bubble bath with no major issues and then a little bit of TV and hair brushing and then off to bed, again no issues. Our real issues today was the Dr., but then again most things that we have to do with adults create issues.
I've thought of several reasons that dogs like to have toddlers:
1. Mac n cheese
2. Bread
3. Jello
4. Beans
5. Chips
6. Milk
7. Crackers
8. Apples
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