Day 150: Dr Visit HELL!

Excuse my language my sweet babes but there was no kinder way to put it. It really was just that - hell! It started out okay. We all had a nice breakfast, got dressed, and headed to Eva's appointment first. There we found out that she's growing right on track and is in the 98th percentile for height and the 77th for weight. She did have to get some nasty shots again which we all hated and she has more ear infections, but outside of that everyone did pretty good. Once we were done there, we headed to meet daddy for lunch and BJs and poor guy was so stressed. Stressed with work and stressed with the chaos of our kids. It was kind of a mess. Each kid took turns going back and forth to the bathroom, crawling under the table, fighting over the crayons, and on and on. He just looked at me and shook his head because he just couldn't understand how it wasn't bothering me. It's weird how you can just kind of check-out. I mean I'm still present for all of the mom-duties but for the high stress type of stuff, sometimes it's much easier to just kind of turn that part of it off. We finished lunch and daddy booked it out of there. Next up was to head to Brycen's ear appointment and that's when everything went downhill. To prevent myself from feeling the stress again, I'll just give the brief synopsis. While I'm able to check-out with "some" things, others I'm not. So it went a little something like this. First we wait, then we fill out paper work. Well, I fill out paperwork while my kids literally ran laps around the entire waiting area, screaming at the top of their lungs, and tripping over peoples feet. Turned in the paperwork and waited some more. Finally get called back and they did some testing while Skylar whined and complained that she didn't get to do it. Go back to the waiting area and repeat the running and screaming, despite the threats. Then Eva starts getting fussy because she's hungry. Start feeding her while also trying to hold my kids down in their seats and listen for our name to be called. Finally get called back again and to a room where we wait again! Bryce punts some kid of ear tool and it shatters, Skylar sits in the corner whining because Eva got to see the doctor and Bryce gets to see the doctor but not her and "it's not fair!" And what's this I smell? Smells like poop. Look at Eva - nope. I ask Skylar if she tooted and she shot me a look that could kill. So that only meant one other option - Oh please God, no. My potty-training boy decided to make a major mess of his batman undies and because I didn't want to risk losing our spot in line by taking him to the restroom, I decided to take care of it right then and there. I cleaned him up, got him some new undies, and picked up my screaming baby who was not happy to be back in the stroller -again. Once I had her settled on my lap, I hear her grunt followed by this big flushing sound. I pick her up to see that she's blown out of her diaper and all over the crotch of my white shorts. Perfect. So now the entire room reeked of poop and I was on the verge of a mental breakdown. Finally the doctor comes in, looks in Brycen's ears and says he looks great. No infection and he passed his tests perfectly. I was relieved but at the same time just kind of felt that I had been kicked in the rear by this day. He suggested that if Bryce has another infection, we take the necessary steps to consider tubes being our only option which at this point I'm not sure I want to do. We finally left the office, loaded in the car and right before I pulled out, I took a long sigh and Skylar says "hey mama? Are you still in a bad mood?" That made me laugh. Just when you think you're doing a good job of not letting them sense your stress, the remind you that you're falling. Miserably. After I laughed, I pulled myself together and we all sang songs all the way home. Well, all the way out of the parking lot until they all completely passed out in the backseat. What. A. Day.