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Friday, May 9, 2008

Two Robin Stories

Circle time at nursery school, Robbie was sitting with Selina's Mom, Linda. Whenever there is a duty parent (it's a co-op nursery school where parents participate in running the school and volunteering as duty parents), Robin seems to think that duty parent is there for her - so she engages them in non-stop conversation - yeah, she's a bit of a talker. So, Robin was chatting to this duty parent, Linda, about all the things going on in her life - Abby riding a two wheeler, Robin riding a one wheeler with no training wheels, her dinner plans for later on that evening etc. Linda kept trying to get her to be quiet but she kept talking. Finally, her teacher Mrs. Fisher, who had been talking to the rest of the class in the circle, told her "Robin, if you're not quiet, you're going to have to leave the circle!". Robin barely glanced at Mrs. Fisher, then looked back at Linda with a knowing look on her face, and said "Can you believe that?"

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Today in the car, Robin hit Abby first. Then, Abby hit Robin. Robin screamed. Abby did not. Beth assumed that Abby hit first and was scolding her when she realized that Robin had started it. When Beth got mad at Robin, she cried in a very wimpy voice "But Mommy, I'm only 3 and a half. I'm not even 4 yet. I'm only little!"

Friday, May 2, 2008

Abby's Eye Surgery

Abby had eye surgery yesterday. She had what is known as strabismus - basically lazy eyes. We went in to Sick Kids yesterday for 6am. After checking in and doing all the pre-op stuff with nurses, Dr. Wong showed up at just before 9:00am, the scheduled time for the surgery.

Beth and I were a little apprehensive as Abby would be under full anesthetic, but she didn't seem nervous at all as she walked down the hall holding the nurses hand.

A very quick hour later, we were welcomed into the recovery room, and Abby was sobbing and occasionally screaming and trying to move all around. Waking up from anesthesia, I understand, is tough, and she had woken up rather quickly.

Amazingly, we were back home by 11:30am. Abby had no bandages and only needed kids Tylenol once. By the next day, Abby was completely back to normal, save for red bruising on the insides of both eyes - amazing.

We will find out shortly how successful her surgery was (in terms of correcting the eye turning) and whether she'll need a new prescription or not.