However, it all went as good as can be expected. The girls snuck in a little football viewing with Daddy but the majority of our family time was spent going here and there as we tried to squeeze in all of our necessary tasks.
One thing we did make sure to do is give the girls’ new daycare provider a crash course in twins care. Actually, since she’s a mother of twins herself, it was really more of a course in “Gwendolyn care” than anything else. After some serious deliberation, Mom and Dad decided to move the girls from the initial day care they began at the start of the school year to a new one beginning today. The long and short is that this opportunity popped up out of the blue and just seemed like a perfect fit. Of course there are always outside considerations (we won’t be spending the extra money on gas, the girls won’t be spending an extra hour of their day cooped up in the car going to and from home, this provider is a little less expensive than the last). Still, at the end of the day, the most important factors are that it is so close to Mom’s work (blocks away really) and that we are confident the girls will be just as well cared for as they have been in the past. It’s such a piece of mind, especially with Gwendolyn’s past, to know that Mom can be there in minutes should anything happen.
As for tonight, the girls have their Chiefs shirts on and are already fighting over the remote to make sure that they don’t miss a second of the Chiefs opener. Hopefully it will be a good game.
Gwendolyn won't really see much football tonight though because she'll need to make sure she gets to bed early. She’s got a pair of routine kidney/bladder tests at the hospital tomorrow. These test pop up periodically just to make sure all’s still going properly with her body’s waste removal. Then on Wednesday, she’s got her latest all-day visit at the spinal defects clinic. Mom and Dad are pretty interested in what the “experts” opinion will be of Gwen’s developmental progress since her initial clinic visit this past spring. The big date for "The Gwenner" is really the end of next week. That’s when we revisit her sleep apnea saga with an MRI to check into the severity of her Chiari malformation and the possible need for a corrective surgery. However, we’ll just focus on this week’s rounds of hospital visits for Gwen and save that anxiety for another week!
With that said, Braelyn will be flying solo for a large chunk of the next two days while Gwendolyn gets poked and prodded. Luckily, our Brae Bear is the outgoing one so we don’t anticipate that she’ll have much of an issue assimilating to her new daycare surroundings without her partner in crime!
That’s all from the Castellanos… we’ll talk to you soon!!!
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