Yesterday

I know I've blogged a lot in the past few days...and I hope I didn't sound like I was complaining too much and I'm not now either, but I thought I needed to write about my day yesterday and be able to reminisce on such a great day.

Woke up feeling a cold coming on, after having not much sleep due to Abby being up all night coughing like crazy and crying. So we were all tired (even though Joe got up with her, I still am up). This was about 8am. I called the doctor to make an appointment just to see if there was anything to be done since I REALLY need my sleep. Then I canceled playgroup that was supposed to be at my house since I figured no one wanted to be around my snotty nosed, coughing, sickly kids. Hannah's nose started to get green and is constantly running (one of my biggest pet peeves). And with her prone to ear infections, I decide to call the dr. back and see if I can take her in at the same time as Abby just to check her ears again even though we were there 2 days ago.

Out of diapers so we ran to Walmart and stopped at the bank and Hannah decided to sleep the whole way, I guess since she didn't get any the night before. Come home make lunch...and both girls eat. So things are going well. Put them to bed, and start to work. Get too tired so I give up and lay down for a minute before waking the girls up to go to the doctor. (By the way, Abby begs to come with me to the dr. with Hannah, she loves going)

Wake them up and of course they were not ready to get up so they scream. Abby sleeps in only underwear so her screaming and kicking while trying to get her dressed doesn't go over so well. She screams she doesn't want to go to the doctor. Put them in the car, and Abby is literally screaming at the top of her lungs at me and yelling, "Take me home right now, I don't want to go to the doctor, I don't want them to look in my mouth." Over and over and over, hysterical. So I turn up the music b/c of course when Abby cries, Hannah cries. Thinking that turning the music up would get her to stop crying, I was wrong. She just covered her ears and screamed louder. At this point I was not feeling good and now frustrated, and trying to hurry to the doctor so we could make it on time. She screamed the whole way there telling me to take her home right now. Still crying when we check in but calmed down a little. Luckily we only had to wait 5 minutes unlike the usual hour before we even get into the office. The nurses take Abby's blood pressure and she thinks it is the coolest thing ever and starts laughing and having a great time. (talk about mood swings with this girl) So then Hannah starts getting excited. When the doctor came to check Abby, she told her to open her mouth and said she wouldn't even use the stick if she could open big enough. Sure enough it worked. While checking her heartbeat, Hannah lifted up her shirt and kept saying, "me, me," wanting her turn. And that was that, they were happy girls again. Abby had the ear infection, and I guess there is nothing to do for her horrible cough, and they both just have colds. We walk out of the office and they both ask for a sucker, get one, and Abby says, "Mom, going to the doctor isn't so bad." Wonderful. We are doing good.

We go home, and Hannah has started this thing where she wants to go potty every 5 seconds take off her clothes, and sit on the potty. So I got out the little potty thinking maybe one of these days she actually will go instead of just thinking sitting on it is fun and saying poo poo and potty. Well she was sitting on it for the hundredth time, and I run off to do something in the other room and forget that she had no diaper on. She comes to me with pee dripping down her leg and all over the floor. And then the next time she wanted to get on, Abby pushed her out of the way and said she needed to go. She sits on the little potty (even though I have told her several times I don't want her going in it b/c I don't want to clean it out every time) goes and then says I'll clean it up. She takes it over to the toilet and dumps it all down the side and all over the rug by the toilet.

Lucky I have frozen a month worth of dinners, or we may not have eaten last night, and we have clam chowder. We have really started trying to get the girls to eat dinner with us since we have had such a problem and Abby won't eat or try anything. So dinner is not a fun time. And did I mention Joe has all night classes this semester? He is finished at 9pm Mon and Wed and 9:30 on Tuesdays and 7:30 on Thursdays and then add the hour it takes to get out of class and get home. So he is never around for dinner. So I sit down and Abby starts crying she doesn't want any and Hannah decides to not want any either. She is kicking and screaming and I try to get her to at least taste it since I know she likes everything as soon as she tastes it and she turns around in her high chair and throws her head back right into the bowl. Her head is now covered in clam chowder and I'm losing it.

I finally get her in the bath and then bribe Abby to eat and get her in the bath too. And put them both to bed. And by some miracle it only took about 15 minutes before they were both asleep. But I was so exhausted by the end of the night and when Joe got home, I couldn't even stay awake for the premier of Lost. I know I'm crazy, but I was so tired I just had to go to bed.

Today is going a little better and Joe got to stay home until nap time so that was helpful and nice to have some help after our wonderful day yesterday.