Holy cow…yesterday was a TOUGH one for me. Started out having to wake Levi up and that turned out to be a gigantic mistake. He was having meltdown after meltdown and eventually I just sent him to his room to scream and cry. He stayed in there for awhile, then said he wasn’t going to cry anymore, but 2 minutes later he’d be bawling for no reason so back into his bedroom he’d go. This went on for about an hour and a half.

We got ready for swimming and headed to the pool, this time Carlos was screaming and crying because he didn’t want to go swimming. Day before yesterday, after telling the instructor to try to encourage him to get wet in the pool at lessons and not just let him sit on the side, the instructor dunked him. Yeah, that’s SO not what I meant…Carlos came up crying and now he doesn’t even want to go to swimming.

So we got through swimming and headed home for a bite to eat, and surprisingly it was one of the most mellow, cool lunches we’ve ever had. All the boys ate their food without griping, joked and laughed and were very pleasant. It was basically the calm before the storm….

We headed over to Silverdale to do a little shopping…Carlos peed his pants (it’s been a long time since that happened) so we changed him and went into the store. The whole time, the boys were fighting, Carlos was potty talking and spitting and it was generally unpleasant. We left, no brainer. Tried a go at Toys R Us to kill some time (the boys always like it there) and Carlos peed himself again, this time in the carseat. I had enough of that and put a diaper on him and loaded them back in the car and headed to speech. Of course, Carlos fell asleep in the car so I had to schlep him up to speech with the other boys following. It went ok today, not great but he actually did a teeny bit of work once he woke up.

Got back in the car and he said he was ready to put underwear back on (bummer I didn’t have any..so he had to go commando). We did that and piled all the boys in the backseat, since Carlos’ carseat was still peed in. It was like the Volvo on our worst day…hitting, taking toys, screaming. Glad they were so far in the back!

We stopped at Payless shoes since we were killing time again before Carlos had a doctor’s appt. We found Trey some super cool Shrek crocs (super ugly but he loves them) and a little pair of skater shoes for our friend, Josiah, who is about to have surgery. You gotta look cool in the hospital! Anyhow, the shoe store didn’t last long, as Carlos had to go potty and they were all being hideous. We went next door and got myself a gigantic Starbucks coffee and let them share a cookie. It was 5 minutes of peace in a rather hectic day.

Dee met us at the doctor’s office, didn’t think I could do it alone when they were being so bad and the appointment went fine. Carlos is still gagging and spitting out his food and it’s odd. There’s nothing physically wrong, she thinks it’s just him being anxious about swallowing the dime and she made a big deal about telling him that the doctor had checked him out and he was all better! We’ll see how that works.

Came home and had dinner, at that point I was ready to hit the liquor store, and Dee had had a really rough day so she wasn’t up to dealing with a lot of garbage either. Laura came by to visit and play with that boys, so that was nice and gave me a chance to cook dinner. We ate, got them through the bath and they started melting down again about watching a movie (it was too late at that point) and so we read a book in bed. Carlos has a cool tent type thing around his bed and we usually all crawl in and read with a flashlight, but Carlos was having a hemmorage about holding the light so that didn’t work. For some reason he just couldn’t calm himself down, so I put the other boys to bed and held him in the chair until he went to sleep. Didn’t think Levi and Trey could fall asleep with that noise and Carlos was hysterical. I think they all got too tired and didn’t get even close to enough time to burn off energy….today they will all nap.

Oh, and the first two pictures are from when Holly, Maddy and Gabe were over for dinner. We put our friends to work…pull that wagon! And Trey with the goofy teeth. Nice.