I almost didn’t go to the playground today. I woke up with a hardy cramp in my left leg. The calf, I guess. It hurt plenty. I felt like staying in and resting today. But eventually I succumbed. I had to go see the babies. And they were lovely of course, as lovely as yesterday if not lovelier already.

Kurt asked me if I had come up with a name for them yet. Unfortunately I hadn’t. Thomas, my fellow diabetes sufferer, suggested Finn & Jacob. I think he was joking about that though. They are the first names of a Danish comedy duo, more or less. But that at least confirmed that they are two little boys. And we’ll have to think up some names now. Any suggestions?

The lambs have been named, by the way. Sussi & Leo. Those are also the names of an oddball husband/wife singer-songwriter/entertainment pair. So fun names for a couple of oddball lambs. They are doing fine too. Now they have real competition for the attention of course. They’re baahing more. And growing huger and huger. I tried lifting Sussi, who is the smaller one, but I could barely get her off the ground. Strange to think that the goat kids will be that big soon too. Do human babies grow as fast as animal babies? It’s crazy I tells ya.

But isn’t it about time you saw a video of the young ‘uns? I think it do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3G_sfX_igo. There you go. From yesterday. I told you how I had to help one of the babies outside. You’ll see that on the video. And some general goat hijinx. At one point one of the boys is turning his head back to groom himself and he loses balance and topples over. It’s the cutest thing. I liked it so much that I repeated it a couple of times at the end of the video. So watch out for that.

Wonderfullies.

Today I got the results of the blood tests that the doc took yesterday. Via email. And by that I mean that the results came through email not that the doc took bloodsamples via email. In case you were wondering. Anyway, the results were good. They measure the average blood glucose level over the last 3 months. And my results were: HbA1c = 0.063. Which puzzled me a little because I looked online and the results are supposed to be given in percentages. But I guess that translates to 6,3%. Which is good because the Danish sources I read said that it should be below 7,5%. And some American stuff I read said that the target level should either be 7 or around 6,5. So I’m a little low even. And as the email summed up, my diabetes is well controlled. So that ain’t not good.

And that’s what we learned on the show today, Craig.

Had my doctor’s appointment today. Went okay. Some bloodtests and stuff. I didn’t get around to bringing up the sleeping pill question. Due to bus trouble I was late so it was all a bit rushed. I guess I’ll just have to.. not sleep, for a while. I’ll be going to regular diabetes checkups though, so maybe I’ll bring it up next time. We’ll see.

More importantly, how are the goat kids doing? They are doing just fine. Today they were outside for the first time. When I got there one of them was outside with Vanilje and the other one was inside. Squealing for mommy. They do that quite a lot. Very vocal. And cute. So I brought the last one out and we all had a nice time in the sunshine. Except there’s no sunshine of course. Grey and wet. But nicer than being inside in the dark at least. And lots of space for the babies to run around and explore.

They’re now brave enough to really come up and examine you. Crawl up on you and even nibble at you a bit. They are so lovely, I mean it. Small and innocent and defenseless. You just want to hold them and make sure they are okay and love them. Love them forever.

But I am still tired, so let’s do pictures and part ways. First three from inside yesterday.

Mama Vanilje. She does well. I am relieved. After what happened last year, when she had her first baby. I was worried if these would be okay. And worried if she would know how to be a proper mother. But things seem to be going very well. They are lively, eating and squealing and running around. And Vanilje is taking very good care of them. Just how it should be.

She looks so much like Vanilje did when she was a kid. Slightly darker around the head, but very alike.

There you go. Goat kids never disappoint.