Pink Thoughts

Alan and I had one very busy day today.

First was his class trip to Demarest Farms for pumpkin picking. It was his teacher, the aide, myself, Alan and 5 of his classmates on a full sized school bus for a 20 minute ride. It actually went well and I think everyone enjoyed it. Alan did run a little, but I think he'd wanted to see the "apple forest" - the apple trees on either side of the field which had pumpkins dumped on it. I bought some apple cider in the farm stand to take home with us.

Afterwards, we went home and had lunch. At 2 we left to go on the rest of our day. First we went to the library to pick up our requests (a DVD came in) and return some CD's. Alan wanted to take out a Thomas book (no suprise). Then I dropped off an item to a freecycler (a music keyboard we got off freecycle and didn't need). At 3 was an eye doctor appointment. Alan behaved very well there. The pediatric eye doctor has lots of cool things for him to look at and Alan was pretty cooperative in general. The doctor reported that Alan's vision is fine and he won't need to go back for 2 years.

Then we went to Target. I got him 2 Thomas trains - one as a reward for the eye doctor, and one to give him if he were good later. I also got Alan a winter coat/snow pants/hat/gloves - I started out looking for gloves and a hat to match his two hand-me-down red coats. But since both his coats are down, I wanted something washable. The coat I got is washable and is a size XS which covers sizes 4 to 5 which means it should fit for 2 years. While I was shopping Alan fell asleep in the cart, he did need a nap.

Our last stop was the dentist. Surprisingly Alan was very cooperative - he let the dentist look in his mouth. And the dentist was able to get the 4 x-rays - although Alan moved during one of them. But the bad news - Alan has 2 cavities in the molars. So we are back in 2 weeks for a filling and then again for the other. Sigh.

When we got home, Alan got the Thomas trains (Molly and Alfie) and was happy. He's asleep now, probably dreaming about either pumpkins or trains!