Tuesday

"Stay at Home Mom" my hiney!

It's been a busy here, there and everywhere day and I am wiped out. Kelton had vacation bible school day camp at 9am so we left about 8:45 to get him there and settled in. After that, Kaylen and I stopped by the vet's office to pick up hairball medication for the cat and then came home. After about 40 minutes we headed out to a dentist appointment for me which was clear on the other side of town. Thankfully we were early enough that the horrible road construction projects between here and there didn't make us late.

The appointment did not go as planned so now I have to return in three weeks for another fitting for a dental appliance. Not that I'm counting (HA!) but this makes six months of trying to get this appliance made and fit correctly. I'm trying not to come unglued over it but seriously - I've had a dentist appointment of one sort of another at least every three weeks for six months! (Thankfully we have an HMO-type dental plan so I'm not being charged an office visit for each and every appointment.) Just getting there though is no easy feat what with schedules and needing to find someone to watch and/or pick up kids ( I can take Kaylen with me but two is too much). I am really hoping that this next visit will be it otherwise, I just may blow a gasket. It's no ones fault, blah blah blah but still. I'm done with it.

So anyway - we left there and stopped at Supercuts on the way home to get little missy's hair trimmed. Or....was that cut completely off? I'm unclear as to what the stylist heard. It's short. Much too short but the good thing about hair is that it grows. I'm sure it will be fine in two.....three weeks. :) I'm really not sure what she was thinking about the bangs. WOW! I thought eyebrow length was the norm but they are way, way shorter than that. Oh well.

The bad part about that is I have been promising Kaylen that I will take her in for a photo of her in her ballet outfit this week (she wants to do it without Kelton there). Ever since she saw her friend, Katie, have her photo taken in her ballet costume, Kaylen has been really itching to have her photo taken in hers. I'm so ok with that because this is a stage that I will want to remember long after she has given it up. So...we'll make the best of it and if they don't turn out well, it isn't costing me anything but time and patience (thank you Picture People free coupons!). I'll just have to make a return visit with another coupon for another day when her hair is a little longer. :)

We came home for lunch but it wasn't too long before Kaylen was begging to go to the park (or "the park-ee" as she took to calling it today). We had to stop by the shoe store to pick up another pair of ballet shoes (she has worn out her second pair already) anyway and there is a park across the street so off we went!

Before I knew it it was time to go get Kelton. We got there in time to see and hear him singing songs with everyone (so darn adorable!) but before long it was over and we were headed out the door. Kelton quickly melted down into a puddle of way too tiredness when he saw that Kaylen was given a cheesy two page coloring book at the vet this morning (it's really a clever little ad for Advantage Flea products). Good heavens would would have though she had been given the key to the castle and he was being sent to live off the land somewhere. The tantrum that rang out loud and clear was unbelievable. On one hand, I get that it's hard to be left out of things (heck- as an adult I still struggle with that) but seriously...it was a crappy coloring book and the kicker was, Kaylen said she would share hers with him and he could have it (she colored one little section) but he was having no part of it. It was U-G-L-Y.

Finally he got himself together (you know, after mommy lost her cool and all *sigh*) and when I asked if he was proud of his behavior he looked at my with huge eyes and quietly said "No. I'm not."

SCORE! I think that was the first time he has ever had that reaction. It usually is met with a defiant look and a million reasons why he was right in his behavior. And then, get this - he apologized to me with no prompting. YES YES YES!!! The event was ugly but the aftermath proves that we are finally getting somewhere.

Kelton came home and promptly crawled into my bed and barely moved for about two hours. Not asleep but not really "of this world" either. This all day day camp stuff is kicking him hard.

While the kids vegged, I ran around like a wild woman trying to put order to the house. I was still running when Dakota arrived home from work.

What a crazy, wild day. Certainly no "staying at home" for me today. :)