Madi is really enjoying swimming lessons! They were able to dive yesterday. Madi did awesome!! Loved it! Today they stayed in their lanes and did some laps. Tomorrow they'll spend most of their time down in the deep end. Has been really great!
Today we spent most of the time at home after swimming. Madi did one section of IXL. I challenged her with a more difficult multiplication section. She did awesome!! Her attitude started to get similar to last summer when she'd mope and complain. BUT she quickly (and I mean quickly) was able to overcome it and stopped complaining fast. I told her that I would do the problems as well and then we could compare answers before she put in the final answer.
The problems were like:
70 x 59 x 5
86 x 12 x 40
Started out more simple with problems like: 5 x 2 x 4
They were harder than problems she had in fourth grade, but are part of the fourth grade curriculum on IXL. So not sure whether they were supposed to learn them and just didn't?? Who knows. I just told her that she is so incredibly smart that a more challenging problem is good for her to work through. She said she couldn't do it. I told her that she just didn't want to do it because I knew she could - she just didn't want to have to work hard on it. And sure enough - she smiled. And then got to work. It helped that I could give her feedback and do the problems with her and it helped that we could talk about if they were wrong.
So after an hour of IXL and after Riley finished her IXL sections, we got ready for her dr. appointment. Has been quite the adventure just trying to get all the Medicaid stuff together. Lots of hours on the phone which is definitely not easy with three kids around. For the most part, they were really great about it though.
So I took her into Trinity Pediatrics in Plano. Medicaid had not changed her dr. from being Dr. Park to Dr. Colberg. Grr... their website would not let me change it and the lady on the phone said I could go ahead and take her to Dr. Colberg even if it wasn't changed. Totally wrong info. And so I had to call Jeremy because they don't have me listed as a guardian (another issue we're getting taken care of and won't take long - just one more thing to do). So they wouldn't let her see the doc until it was updated. Jeremy called them, then texted me and I told the lady at the desk. Then she brought up her file a few minutes later and thankfully, all was corrected so we could get the dr. appointment done!
She had asked ahead of time about shots and I told her that no, her file was up to date and she shouldn't need shots. I was totally wrong!!! Had no idea that she would need two shots at her 11 year appointment! Thankfully we got it over with today. Madi handled them totally different today than she had last year. She was freaking out last year and had to calm herself down. We've worked a lot on coping skills with things like this and she did awesome!!!!
I apologized to her about the shots and told her I had no idea there would be shots as I thought that she was good until 18. Turns out these last two shots are the last she'll need until 18. So I just kept telling her "Seven years! Seven years!! Just get through these two shots and you'll be free of them til 18." She was really great about it. The meningitis shot was going to sting and the nurse told her that ahead of time. Madi took it well, but said she felt light-headed which the nurse said was totally normal. So she lay down. I had brought some snacks for the girls so she was able to eat pretzels while laying down and had some water once we got to the car. We let her lay for about five minutes until she felt ready to get up. I also gave her Aleve when we got home, had her sit on the couch and drink some juice. She's in there now watching the movie Wall-E with Riley.
So very proud of her for working through her frustration in her attitude with IXL as well as handling the shots without freaking out and getting extremely dramatic about it. I told her that I could actually read her emotions because she wasn't going crazy about it and it was very clear that it hurt. I didn't have to wonder if it was just for attention or for dramatics. She reacted well to that as well and it has been a really great day.
The other blessing of today was that she would have needed the 11 year old shots in order to attend school in the fall so I'm glad we got them taken care of ahead of time. So in the last three days, we've taken care of her mandatory Dentist and Dr. appointments for Medicaid and reapplying in October should be very easy as I have the printouts and have followed their procedures. Phew!!! That feels good!!!
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