Wednesday in St. Cloud

Today, we had to bring Lauren in to the allergist in St. Cloud. She has been having a few more problems when it comes to her breathing, so we had to recheck her. She had a few breathing tests & we talked about triggers and where she is having problems (which is mainly during swimming and at night). Our appointment lasted over 2 1/2 hours!! Seeing that the Dr's office was also an hour away from our house and our appointment was so long, Brad & I decided that it was kind of silly to rush back to Brainerd and get her back to school in time for her to come home. So, we ended up spending the day in St. Cloud. Lauren and Ethan had received gift certificates to Toys R Us & Borders (which we don't have here in Brainerd), so I thought that I would let them use them up. Then we ended the day with a little break at the "PlayPlace" in the Crossroads mall.

Ethan chose "Tickle Me Extreme Cookie Monster" from Toys R Us. He lovingly calls him just plain "monster". He is still a little bit scared of him, but I think that he will be ok... We were really happy that he did finally pick this out, since we walked every single inch of the store & were there for about an hour...

Lauren found a bunch of books today at Borders. She bought a Planet Earth workbook set. It includes 4 workbooks & 4 sets of flashcards about land animals, water animals, air animals & earth geography. She also got a fantasy (long) chapter book called the king in the window. Lauren and I are going to try to chip away at this one at night and on the weekends. She also got Ethan a set of Baby Einstein Animal Discovery flash cards. What a nice sister!!

We also went into the "used" book store to see if they had any copies of Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince. I really want to read it to her, it would be such great "girl time". Plus it comes out this summer & we have seen all of the rest of the series!! Well, we could only find a hardcover copy there, so no such luck. However, I did find 3 other books for Lauren. Junie B. Jones is a series that is geared towards Lauren's age group, and I found a few books from that series for her. I also found a book called The Tail of Emily Windsnap. Hope this one's good too!!