A Day in the Life

So, okay, yesterday was a DAY to be had. It starts off pretty typical and nothing extraordinary. Brennan had spent the night at Mom's so she would have him on Wednesday and Bryan took Evan to Primrose as usual. When I finished work I headed to Primrose to get Evan. The teachers in his room are hysterical - Evan, apparently, is the most stubborn baby they have ever seen. great. But they aren't really telling me anything I didn't already know, right?

So I head to Mom's to get Brennan and wait a few minutes before we needed to leave for Evan's 6 month check up. I had put a bottle in Mom's fridge to keep cold and, of course, forgot it when it was time for us to leave. The Dr. gets us in relatively quickly as usual. Evan is 27in and 17 lbs 3 oz. So he is growing good! Once the doctor comes in she is really concerned about Evan's breathing - she thinks it's really labored...but it was typical for how he normally is. Turns out the kid as an ear infection in his right ear (either the same one from last month or a new one). AND he is wheezing so she wanted to try a breathing treatment at the office to see if that would help him. Okay, fine...but it is 4:45 and Brennan has swim at 5:45...I can do this, right? Of course the office was busy at the end of the day and the nurses were scrambling around not knowing what to do. We do the treatment after 3 different nurses came in to get his respiratory rate...apparently that was really hard. Then the doctor had to hear his lungs THEN another nurse came in to do his shots! Poor kid was beyond himself. Bryan was calling my phone wondering where I was, and Brennan had used up his good kid behavior a long time ago. He played with every germy toy in the toy bin...I'm squirting him with hand sanitizer hoping to ward off the well check up sickies. Once we finally get out of there it's 5:30...Bryan had called Mom to come get Brennan to take him to swim and bring the bottle I had left there (heated up). She arrives in the parking lot - poor thing, I think she left dinner on the stove so she could come help me out. We drive to swim and she handles changing Brennan while I try to start a bottle with Evan - which, of course, he didn't want - after all that!

After swim we headed to Campo Verde for dinner since there was no way I could have anything prepared and on the table at that point. My nerves were shot and MY ear was hurting and so has my shoulder (another long story).

I went to bed with no bottles made, towels in the dryer, dishwasher full, dishes on the counter, bottles soaking in the sink, towels and bibs unfolded on the kitchen table. I had nothing ready for the next day and I knew it would be morning soon.

Brennan comes in our room at 3 am - "I don't feel good" - he was super congested - great! Those germs sure do work fast!

So it's another day today - hopefully it will go smoother for all of us. But chances are it will be another Day in the Life episode!