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Dorrie’s Day* Out2

*Or, well, hour and a half. Close enough.

A couple of weeks ago we finally hit on a really good day to take Dorrie out to visit my workplace. We had our second of three IEP related meetings, so Bob was home when Dorrie woke up. He took Grammy’s car to work and so our car (and the car seat) were at home.

Unfortunately, in spite of my efforts to prevent this from happening (aka written instructions), Daddy and Grammy decided to give Dorrie lunch before I got home. So when we went to take her out to the car, she threw up all over the place. That almost derailed the trip right there, but eventually we did continue.

It was incredibly hot and humid out, and the car ride in the hot car seat cannot have been very comfortable, but Dorrie behaved herself very well. She was patient while I got her out of the car and we got her into her chair to go into the library. Fortunately the library was nice and cool inside.

Dorrie got to meet most of the people who’ve been hearing about her for the past three years. (Though sadly not everyone was there that day.) She was very impressed by the computers in the children’s room, and stared at one of the screens for most of the time we were in there.

We stayed for a little less than an hour, then headed home.

Though it didn’t start out the best, the outing was a success, and hopefully we’ll manage to get out more this summer. In pursuit of that, after we got home we had a visit from the guy who is in charge of coordinating maintenance and stuff for the condo assoc, to have a look at the place where we want to put a wheelchair ramp.

Dorrie examines a DVD.

Are you kidding?! Of course I want to check it out!

What am I doing over here?

What are you guys doing with my Sesame?

So it’s mine now?

(I actually forgot to bring it back to work with me on Saturday, so now it’s overdue. Whoops. I’ve also ordered our own copy for Dorrie’s birthday next month.)

Posted by mom, under moving forward... or not, our little witch