Another day spent running around!

I got dragged out of bed bright and early by my two legged alarm clock this morning, although I did get an extra ten minutes by suggesting he could finish watching Scooby Doo and THEN I'd get up :-) I then spent the morning getting the tools out of the bathroom and putting the bookcase back in there. And even though the cleaners come today I couldn't leave it in a total mess and had to hoover up, although I will let them do the mopping. Drama Teen and Little Prince had a mad half hour play fighting and winding each other up! Trouble is they were still acting like mini maniacs when Handyman arrived, and I ended up having to shout at them! Handyman has now fixed the remaining jobs in the bathroom, and a few extras that needed doing :-) His next project is to turn the empty space where a boiler used to be into useful shelves. I'm going to get some galvanised steel boxes with lids from Ikea (called Skrin - don't you just love what Ikea calls their stuff??) to put on the shelves, so I need to buy those first, so that Handyman knows what size to make the shelves. I love an excuse to go to Ikea lol.
While Handyman was still working, the cleaners arrived, which immediately set Little Prince off in "manic mode" again! He was trying to smell (ie mess with) all the cleaning fluids and generally making a nuisance of himself! As soon as Handyman had finished I loaded the kids into the car and left the cleaners to finish the job in peace! We went out for lunch at the local tea shop, called at the chemist to buy some more Calpol for Little Prince and then went off to town. We visited our usual supermarket to get some bits and bobs they hadn't been able to deliver yesterday, and to get some supplies in for Halloween. Little Prince has decided he wants to be a scary skellington to go Trick or Treating, and that his Indiana Jones costume is too scratchy to wear again!! The supermarket had almost run out of dressing up costumes so we had to go to a different supermarket, where we were able to buy a skeleton costume :-) Which is a good job, as Little Prince is refusing to be a witch lol.
Our next visit was to the hospital, for Drama Teen's Fracture Clinic appointment. As usual, we had to wait for ages in a boring waiting room with no toys. Luckily I knew this was going to happen and had brought along Little Prince's GameBoy to amuse him. He was just getting to the limits of his patience when we were finally called in. The Doctor examined Drama Teen's finger, and said she has to lie her hand flat on a table and squash her little finger straight. She doesn't want to do this as it hurts, but if she doesn't then it will stiffen up even more and she won't be able to straighten it at all. He has also referred her to the Hand Physiotherapist to get a programme of exercises sorted out. We were given the referral card and told to take it to the Physiotherapy Dept, who then sent us to the Occupational Therapy Dept all of which meant more waiting around for Little Prince, who was waaaaaaay beyond his limits by then! We eventually got the referral card delivered and could get on our way home. The traffic was building up for the rush hour and it took ages to get out of town, we drove past a fast food place and as soon as we got past there Little Prince decided he had wanted to go in! So he whinged for ages about that. As soon as we got home I dosed him up with Calpol and he's been a lot better since, poor lad was probably totally bored and getting more and more uncomfortable. He is also a lot more tired than he normally is, so I'm going to get him an early tea and hopefully settle him down for an early night. Fingers crossed that doesn't mean an even earlier wake up call!!