It's been awhile, I know. I finally moved to day shift (yay!) which is fantastic for my life but not so great for my blog, since I do most of my blogging from work. Oh well, I suppose I have to find a new (maybe slightly more appropriate) time to write. Also, the switch from night to day shift has been a little less smooth than I anticipated. I want to sleep all the time. Like, even on my days off, I put Alexa to bed and then get in bed myself. I end up falling asleep around 9:00, just to wake up at 4am ready to go. It's only been 2 weeks so I'm still adjusting. My first week of day shift was OK, there are a lot more people here during the day which is exactly what I don't like. More people to have to talk to is not my idea of fun. And on top of all the doctors and case workers, etc. there are also tons of med students getting all up in everyone's business. Which brings me to my next story.
Alexa and I went to music class, as usual, last Friday. She was having one of those kind of days where she's just a little more crazy then usual. She insisted on wearing her 4th of July fireworks shirt and then on the way to music class she pulled out her pig tails and lost one of the stretchies. She ended up having this crazy pony tail with a center part that was left over from the pig tails plus wearing this ridiculous shirt that is too big on her anyways. She looked just about as crazy as she was acting. So we were sitting in music class and it was time for the drums. Lexi would not stop putting her drum mallet in her mouth so I ended up taking it away from her. I was in the process of shaking it at her and threatening to beat her with it (joking, of course...mostly) when who walks by but one of the doctors I work with accompanied by the slew of med students who had been hanging around the PICU all week. Of course he came up to me to talk for a minute and asked how day shift was (blah, blah, blah). Meanwhile I told Alexa to say 'hi' and handed the mallet back to her (in the most gentle, non-threatening way I knew how). The whole time with 10 med students just standing there watching us. Perfect. So then I suppose Alexa thought that she already hit crazy, she might as well just go with it. (After the small entourage of doctors left - thank God) She started pulling her shirt over her head and walking around with the front of it over her face, laughing. Then, she took off the whole shirt, put her hands on her hips and walked around the room saying "I'm naked! I'm naked!". Imagine about 15 mothers, plus the teacher, sitting in a circle singing songs while their babies are either on their laps or playing in the center of the circle. And then there's my kid. Half naked strutting around proclaiming and celebrating her nudity. After two attempts to put her shirt back on (it quickly came off again), and tucking it into her pants (that didn't work either), I picked her up and we had a little discussion in the hallway about how if she doesn't act like a big girl, we aren't coming back to music class again. She nodded and said "Shexa big girl'. The other mothers were smiling and chuckling at her but I know that they were thinking 'Oh, thank God my kid isn't acting like that'. Alexa did act like a big girl for what was left of the class (about 5 minutes) and we had another talk this past Friday before leaving for our class. Oh, and this week, she wore a onesie.
