Dr appt trip to Tucson & Phoenix

We left Wed heading to Tucson to stay the night at Comfort Suites Sabino Canyon. Ok that hotel is HORRIBLE!!! We stayed there before and it was ok. BUT this stay was BAD!!! FIRST we get put in a room and the bathroom door lock is broke and won't open from the outside once it's closed. THEN they FINALLY get their act together and get us a new room and the darn a/c doesn't work right. IT got SOO stinking HOT in that room and the a/c WOULD not come back on!!! I got nada sleep that night. Also the carpets were GROSS the kids feet were BLACK from walking around. Just EWWW WILL not stay there again!!!

Thur morning was Ben's appt w/ Dr McDonough-Means. Found out yes he has a language disorder but also has a motor planning disorder. He also has allergies. So he is on the dairy and additive free diet now too. Then it was back to the hotel to pack up and go get lunch. Had lunch at McDOnalds so the kids could play and my mom could watch them while we took Kathleen to the dr. Dr M & M said Kathleen is doing great but to be better about the diet and supplements.

After the appt we went back to get mom & the other kids and hit the road to drive up to Scottsdale. Got up there and checked in and WOW I was guest of the day! I got a little cooler bag, water bottle, beach ball & piggy bank. We got all settled in the room and headed over to the mall to eat dinner at The Yard House. Yummy food like always :) Then we went upstairs to Build a Bear because Puppy needed more shirts. I ended up getting a U of A shirt, Dbacks shirt and hat for him:) Chris was very happy:) THen we ran into The Disney Store to see if they had a Jesse doll and they didn't. So back to the hotel to get to bed.

Up early Fri morning so we could get Ben & Kathleen over to the Shriner's clinic at Maricopa Medical Center. They both had xrays done and we waited for our turn to be seen. Finally we got called back and the kids first saw Dr Pond one of the interns. He said Ben was doing GREAT!!! Then looked at Kathleen's feet and wasn't happy with how her left foot was doing. Mentioned surgery down the road. Then went to look at the xrays. While back there he talked with the kids surgeon Dr Santora. So they both came back in the room and Dr Santora looked at her foot and said I don't think we should wait on the surgery. So we'll be going back to Salt Lake City to have surgery on her foot again this summer. This will be her fourth surgery.

After the appts we went back to the hotel to check out and head over to the AZ Science Center to see the Titanic and Dino exibits. Grabbed a quick lunch and went to see those. Both were amazing!! Then we hit the road to get an early dinner at Cracker Barrel. Poor Ben was asleep when we got there so we had to wake him up and that led to TOTAL meltdown:( I ended up taking him out to rock him. Thank GOODNESS for their rocking chairs!! He finally calmed down and we enjoyed lunch. Then we stopped at Happy Valley to get Kathleen a webkinz and she picked out a webkins purse/carrier. Then it was head up the mountain to get home. Got home around 7pm that night. We were all dead beat tired.