What a day!!!!

So yesterday I had scheduled Aubrey for a dr's appointment this morning. When she got up she was all smiles and in a great mood. In fact, she walked up to my bed this morning and said, "Mommy! Get up!! I'm soaking wet!" Oh what a sweet good morning that was! Anyway, we got ready to take Brendan to school and since she was feeling better I decided to cancel her appointment. Here is where the fun begins...

We decided to come home. I didn't stop and get a diet coke this morning as I usually do. I came straight home and made a big tall glass of decaff iced tea. I enjoyed my day with Aubrey, folding and washing clothes and watching countless episodes of Dora. (At least it's not Wubbzy.) Finally, I decided to go ahead and take Aubrey to eat somewhere before we picked up Brendan from school. We use to go eat breakfast on Tuesdays, but since we are no longer doing mommy and me gymnastics we do lunch together sometime during the week. When I got in my car I noticed a message was left on my cell phone. It was Emily, calling to tell me that Brendan has scratched his eye with his folder when he was packing up. Evidently, they were going to have a picnic lunch outside and decided to pack up early today. That being said, bless his little heart, he had been crying for me for a good while before I got the message. NOW, in Emily's defense, she didn't call me at home because she had read my blog and thought I'd be at the Dr. with Aubrey. She feels so badly about what happened to Brendan but it is so not her fault. So, Aubs and I go up to the school and he had stopped crying but his eye was red. I took him straight to the doctor's office. Russell had a scratched cornea two years ago and it was terribly painful so I wanted to make sure Brendan's cornea wasn't scratched. HOWEVER, it was but only slightly. He cannot stand the eye drops. It's going to be a long 3 days! Before we left, I asked the doc to look in Aubrey's ears and low and behold...ear infections. For safe measure, I asked her to check out Brendan's and he had "a good bit of fluid in both ears." Translation: Ear infection any day! So now they are both on antibiotics.

I had told the kids if they were good at the Dr's office, we would go get a treat, thinking candy, ice cream, dollar store toy, something along those lines. We were walking out and I said, "Let's go get some ice cream because you were such a big boy in there." He replies, "No, MOMMY!! Ice cream is not a treat! Diet Coke is a treat!" What have I done?? I have ruined my child. My little 3 year old Diet Coke addict. Yes, I did get them kiddie Diet Cokes, and I got a small one for myself. That's the only one I've had in 2 days so I don't want to hear any crap about my caving in!! :)

Until next post...