This week has started off fairly quiet with Kenzie out of school and just hanging out before Jeremy takes off for Wyoming again. Last week however, lets just say that we've seen much, much better weeks.
Zoe-Mai was in some sort of funk starting from last Monday. Just irritable and uncomfortable. Tuesday was no better and we had a doctors appointment for Samuel. So after picking up Kenzie from school we headed straight to the doctors. Zoe-Mai all fresh from her shower and is good clothes, bag of goodies/toys in tow. She started throwing a fit the minute we pulled into the parking lot...knowing exactly where we were. It had been my hopes that not too many children would be in the waiting room with us so she wouldn't be so overwhelmed. Not our luck. The waiting room was basically full of crying, sniffing, sneezing, coughing babies and toddlers. There was no hope that I would get her to calm down.
Kenzie did very well, trying to hand and keep a hold of toys. Zoe-Mai wasn't interested and ran back and forth to the door, crying. Another little boy sitting near us, probably around a year and half old, was getting visibly upset as were many of the parents. Kenzie tried handing a few toys and talking to the little boy, trying to do her best to calm him down knowing that his crying would just upset Zoe-Mai even more. Zoe-Mai wasn't having it and by this time Samuel had woken up and I was juggling him and trying to get Zoe-Mai under control.
We were in the waiting room for 30 minutes by now, with this going non stop and she had graduated from crying to getting aggressive. Zoe-Mai started to raise her hand to hit the little boy and her snatching her toys back from him wasn't helping a thing. Only made him start crying, which prompted more hand raising. The few times she did 'hit' him were thankfully not hard. More like her just patting him.
By this time I had to do something. She was getting worse, not calming down and getting more aggressive. I finally had to call my father in law to come to the clinic to hang out with Zoe-Mai and Kenzie outside while Samuel got his check up and shots. Thankfully, the two nurses who know Zoe-Mai and I bumped us ahead of the others. I couldn't be more grateful for both of these kind ladies who don't judge me and are very understanding of just exactly what Zoe-Mai is going through.
Their kindness helps make the nasty looks and sneering that I was getting from the other parents and the two receptionists more manageable.
That doctors appointment set the tone for most of the week. Zoe-Mai just kept with that funk until Saturday, which I'm thankful she finally pulled out of. Jeremy was home and it's important to me that he and the girls have as nice a weekend as possible together.
This week looks like it will be better. Zoe-Mai has had a good day so far and settled into a nap on her own. I hope that the rest of this week will be as peaceful.
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