Sunday was supposed to be a great, well-planned out day.
The boys had sunday school and Jack was to sing at the 11 o'clock service. We went to church and the boys did as well as can be expected (did we hear a word of the sermon? No. Never do when the boys are with). Jack got up with his class and sang two songs and did fantastic. He really had an issue at Christmas time not wanting to get up in front of people and refused to participate. We told him the day before that his class was singing and he said he wanted to look spiffy so he picked out a really nice button up shirt and belt with jeans. He looked soooooo handsome!
Anyway, he sang and did great and we got through the rest of the service fairly well. Mom told me to tape it and I did bring the camera, but he looked a bit nervous so I didn't want to upset or embarrass him so I left the camera in the bag. Our plan was to head up to LaCrosse to do some shopping so we grabbed some drive-thru and headed strait up.
Menards was our first stop. Right when we got there Jack said there was something in his ear. I said I would check it out when we got home because I didn't have any Q-tips with me. Within 20-30 minutes he is crying and grabbing his ear saying it really hurts. Great. So much for the rest of the shopping trip. Off to urgant care.
We were fourth in line to be seen. Jack sat with us while Alex and Ben were making little sick friends all over the place. They would run over and look at the fish and run back. It was kind of nice to keep them entertained while we waited.
Chad asked Jack if his tummy hurt. He nodded yes and then BLAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHH! Really? Great. He didn't want to take his jacket off earlier so his hat, coat, pants, shirt, everything but his shoes were covered. Of course there were no garbage cans near by so we grabbed his hat to catch the rest of it but that was pretty pointless at that point. Of course he hosed the waiting room chair as well. Makes you think twice about sitting in a waiting room chair now!
He got right in to be seen after that and the doc came and said he had ear infection and thought the pain made him get sick. But after getting new clothes on, some Tylenol and a sticker he made a dash back into the room to yack in the garbage can. Oh, and durring all this, we had the other two kids to keep track of and out of the puke and off of the clinic floor.
At this point, we scrapped our Target and Hancock fabric run but thought I could still run in quick at the grocery store. Jack said he wanted to go home so we scrapped that too. After a quick stop at Walgreens for meds and Target for a DVD for them to watch, we headed home. We get down the road a little and Jack chucked again. Luckilly the nurses gave us several of thoes blue puke ring bag things to take home with us.
I really wanted something to eat on the way out of town, but Jack said the smell might bother him so we just skipped it. After we got back into town we needed to stop and get some milk and Jack got sick again. Once we got home and settled he didn't get sick anymore and went to bed early. I got everyone else in bed and fell asleep myself on the couch.
Jack was fine this morning so he went to school and my house looks like a bomb went off so that's my plan today is to get things cleaned up, restock the emergency diaper bag for the van and do some laundry.
See--people without kids just don't get to have this kind of fun!
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