Thursday, September 11, 2008

What A Day!


Well what a day this has been! It started off with babysitting my twin 18 month old cousins Joshua and Mackay. Wow, three kids under two years, need I say more? But I will. With Porter at my side, I bathed the twins in my mom's bathtub. Things were going quite smoothly, and the great thing about twins is that most of the time they entertain each other, but unfortunately, one of them decided to poo, a lot! I pulled them both out of the tub, which turned out to be a big mistake, so that I could clean the tub. Well, someone decided that they needed to pee while I was cleaning. At this point, Porter decided he wanted attention and began to cry. I finally got them back in the tub and finished getting them ready. We headed downstairs and on the way, Mackay decided to hit Joshua which gave him a nosebleed. The horrible thing about twins is that although they can entertain each other better than anyone else, they can also fight worse than anyone else. After dealing with the array of bodily fluids, I went to check on Miko, and this is what I found:

The picture doesn't quite do it justice, but this did not resemble my dog at all. Her nose was swollen and her eyes were slits (back to her oriental roots, I guess) (For those of you who went to Junior High with me, it resembled Whitney when she had that allergic reaction to the face lotion)Her behind was also swollen. I rushed her to the vet and they informed me that she had been stung by a bee. They gave her two shots and sent me on my way. But not without giving me the bill. This turned out not to be just any bee sting, it was actually an $80 bee sting. After that crisis, Miko and I headed back to the babysitting job. Now realize these boys have been without their mom for five days and they have had it. Sadly, they decided to take out their sadness on Porter, by shoving his face into the carpet and stealing his toys. Although he was a little confused, it didn't seem to phase him too much. My little boy is such a cheese. And check out his nerdy hat, I love it!


With a couple of other bumps along the way, we finally made it through this horrible day. Miko is doing much better and should be back to normal by tomorrow, the twins were picked up by their mother this evening, and Tom is finally home from work and school and I am signing out. Shout out to my aunt Jenny who is the mother of the twins and three other kids. I don't know how she does it and I can only pray that I will not have twins.

7 comments:

Carrie said...

Oh man Jess--that is quite a day!! I have had poop in the tub before and that alone is enough to make any mom crazy. So adding the bee sting, bloody nose, crying, fighting, etc...sounds like way too much for me. I hope you can recover tomorrow and remember how lovely it is to have just one child! Ah, I miss those days...

Ali said...

If it's any consolation, that bee is probably dead now. :)

I love the photo of Porter on your blog header, as well as his grin in the Pooh Bear hat. He's Soooooo cute.

What an ugly day. I'm sorry. As a contradiction to what I said in a post earlier this week... "proving why one is better than three!"

Bobby said...

Haha, that's awesome. Porter looks super cute and it's cool that you got to look after your baby bruiser twin nephews. I'm glad Porter is tough and has a LeBaron head in all of its glory. All I see is a mini-Tommy when I see him.

Ang said...

Oh, wow, sounds like a nightmare! But Porter does look really cute!

Krista said...

that sounded like a day I do not want to have!! I'm so sorry. I'm glad porter is such a cheese through most of it!

Layne and Kelly Nelson said...

Wow. What else can you say about that? I can't imagine trying to juggle all the kids ALONE, much less the other stuff. I swear those kind of things always happen all at once!

Shawna Wilson said...

I totally remember Whitney's face after that allergic reaction! Poor doggy...