So it all started on monday, when around 10am I got a call from our relator. After nearly 4 years on the market our house finally has an offer… and now an accepted offer at that! Yay! Well needless to say my week with no plans turned damn crazy! Monday I took the kids to go look at a couple houses to narrow down the ones that are available. Tuesday Ava had school so she had to be dropped off and then I had to finish up the candle fundraiser order, pick up a few checks, send out the fundraiser order, talk to the mortgage guy, and pick Ava back up after school. Wednesday I had day care kiddos, and a photo shoot for one of the girls, along with more mortgage talk, lawn work, more considering of the different houses on the market, and CYF at church for Avali. While she was there I took the other two kids for a walk to the house we are very serious about and looked around from the outside for a while. Thursday, school for Avali, back to the house with the relator again, this time super serious, looking at all the details… back home for my day care boy, a short nap for them (and beginning to get ready for Ellas big Lollipop party for me.) A bit later it was time to pack up the three kids at home, and go back to town to pick Ava up again. While on the phone with my hubby later in the afternoon I realize that while I was in town earlier, our dog Lola must have jumped out of the van because she was not at home. Back in town we go to look for Lola. Two hours, and one accident for poor Ava later, we go home to change her clothes and make signs for the missing dog. Ava and I went into town again to hang up posters. Once we got home, Avali had another accident and was complaining of it hurting. Great, a UTI, I suppose! So time for a baking soda bath, a call to the nurseline, and some fluids for her, time to get the other two into pajamas for the night, and WAY past time to watch my Greys Anatomy! Finally, 9 pm, I get to snuggle up on the couch with Ava who at this point needed some lovin and one on one with mom. Fifteen minutes later I get a phone call from a woman I do day care for who works at a local restaurant,
“Jen, are you missing Lola?”
“Oh my God, yes, I’ll be there in a minute!” So once again, Ava and I hop in the van and head into town to get Lola. Once we get there, she took off across the parking lot, and my chunky ass had to chase her across the damn thing until she decided she knew me and wanted to come home.
Home again… at last!!! By 11ish I was finally able to get into bed. Oh what a feeling, but due to the stress of all of this home stuff… I didnt fall asleep until around midnight. About two hours later, Ava was awake and couldnt get off the bunk bed. Once I got up with her, I couldnt fall back asleep and was awake in bed until 5:45 when we had to get up. Friday morning instead of getting ready for the birthday party, I had to get the three kiddos out the door and on the way to an appointment for Ava, by 6:30.
Well, we made it to the appointment on time at 8:30, but it was over an hour before we were seen. The doctor came in, and asked if she had given a urine sample. Ummm? No! One was never ordered. So across the clinic we go, to the lab department to do the urine sample. There we were given a pager that was to go off when they were ready for us, and to wait in the pediatric lab waiting room. I got the two younger ones out of the stroller and told them they could play. The second I set Cooper down, the pager went off and I had to explain that nope, we cant play today. So load them all back up again, head into the lab area bathrooms. I got one of those handy little hat things so it would be easier to “collect” from Ava. She supplied, and I couldnt have been happier. Ella was standing surprisingly well and waiting for Ava to be done, and I was holding Cooper. Once Ava got up I took the “hat” thingy, and set it in the sink, so I could open the collection container to transfer it into, you know, all the while holding Cooper. Wouldn’t you know it if there weren’t automatic faucets that filled that damned container with water and ruined the entire urine sample. Ahhhhh!!!! I was PISSED! I came out of the bathroom nearly crying, and told the nurses that we’d need to wait for another sample. Oddly enough, this little girl who, the previous night, had been peeing every fifteen minutes… didn’t have to pee for three HOURS!!! Anyway, we finally supplied the sample, and asked the Dr. to call us with the results and he could call in a prescription to one of the places on the way home. Shorty after we get a call saying, yes the urine did show “a few things” but we can’t treat her until we let it culture for 24 to 48 hours. Ugh!!!
A bit later we were on our way home, with no prescription, and a very miserable Ava, an exhausted mama, and Cooper and Ella cranky and tired of riding. When we got home, it was time to make Ella’s cake for the party, do some yard work, and then once Jay got home go to look at the prospective new house again. We were there for an hour, then home again to make Ella’s supper of her choice since it was her birthday. Pancakes it is! The little goober insisted that we sing to her about 4 times, oh yea, candles lit and everything!
Anyway, it was an exhausing and busy week. A week that felt as though it should have been productive, but really wasn’t.
I will spare the details of the party in this post, I’m sure you’re exhausted after reading about the chaos as it is! Party details to follow!
But really, she is the sweetest thing! She loves her brother, she loves her sister, and she cannot wait for her “new baby sister” to come! She rubs my belly every morning to talk to her baby sister and see if she can feel her. Ella is a huge cuddle bug right now, and is known to be the one of our kids that will fall asleep pretty much anywhere! 
when she zoned in on the tv and picked up the inchworm. (Still concentrating intently on the tv… Dora was on) Ella proceed to LICK the worm… all the way down the entire seat! ACK!!! What was the girl thinking?
