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Let's just fast forward to 5 pm...
5ish...at the subway drive through listening to Sage scream, and waiting on them to make our sandwiches. Did you know that at the Newton Subway, they literally make the sandwich while you order it? That is the worst idea ever. Its easy to be patient when you're standing in the store watching them. But from your car, it feels like they must be butchering the pig, raising the dough, and growing the tomatoes while you wait. Maybe its worse when your baby is screaming.
5:30ish...at the park in Newton. Trying to nurse Sage in public. Very very challenging for numerous reasons including that my boobs are so small I need about 4 hands to make it work. Forget doing it under a blanket.
6:00ish...Eva is pulling a screeeeeeeeeeeaming River from the baby swing. He was IN the baby swing in the first place because he would fall out of a normal swing when Eva gave him under-dogs. But a bee decided that my sweet boy is just as sweet as I always say he is, and was swarming his head. He f.r.e.a.k.e.d. out. I've never ever seen him get so crazy. Screaming, crying, shaking, practically convulsing. Is there a phobia name for "fear of bees?" The damn insect followed me - holding a convulsing River - all over the park. So finally we all sprinted to the van. People were laughing out loud at us. They really were. I was laughing so hard I nearly peed my pants by the time I got us all buckled in.
6:30ish...All four of us at Dillons. This doesn't work particularly well because River would still do best being IN the cart, but there's not room for a carseat with Sage, groceries, and him. So he gets the raw end of the deal and has to walk but not touch anything. When we arrived, Eva and I had to pee (funny how she HAAAAAAD to go at the park, but when we got into a real bathroom, it was gone. I think she was just hoping I would let her pee on a tree at the park). So I pushed the cart into the bathroom. No easy feat. While shopping, I devised a new game when I forgot something and didn't want to parade back to it. Its called "all hands on the cart and count out loud to see how long it takes mama to sprint two aisles over and back again". It works very very well. One time they got to 100, but one time they only got to 5. I see no need to go to the gym tonight.
Check-out was a challenge because I was using 3 WIC checks, plus my own debit card to pay for them. We qualify for WIC now that we're a family of 5. The checks provide free formula, bread, cereal, milk, peanut butter, and a few other staples. When we qualified for it a few years ago, I was embarrassed to admit it. But this time I feel pretty great about it. That is helped in no small part by the fact that I know other rock stars that are on it too. All that to say that I had to organize my groceries very very well on the counter and then took about 6 years to ring them up and pay for them. I think the kids more than earned the quarter I gave them for the gumball machine on the way out.
7:30ish...All four of us chase Long-Neck (a chicken) back into the coup. When done, Eva and River resumed their "cooking show" with leaves and grass and flowers on the deck while I walked through the garden and tried to stay awake - I missed my afternoon coffee.
3:00 am ish...Help Ryan and River get in and out of the shower because River has croup and cannot stop coughing. A hot steam shower seems to be the thing that will help. Neither guy has been back to bed since.
Now the sun has risen, Kate and William are married, River is watching Max and Ruby, and Eva is getting dressed. What will today bring?