It's been a week!

What a week! Gas is down to $3.76/$3.79. I did get gas on base Sunday morning. I *THINK* it was $3.75. I say "*THINK*" because it was 4:30am. I wasn't planning on sharing the story tonight because I am feeling a little under the weather & just want to go to bed, but while I am here I can do a quick fill-in & add details later on. Oh, before I forget, the Pilot finally mailed me back my thumb drive. So one day, hopefully soon, pictures from our trip & Princess' birthday will be blogged about.

Back to why I was getting gas at 4:30am on base Sunday. Saturday night was going as normal. Mr Independent & I were excited to watch Cops after Princess went to bed. Hey, he's into it & I turn it into an educational mother-son moment. The 3 of us were finishing up dinner & it was about 6:30pm. Mr Independent was sitting in his seat behaving & suddenly fell out. Blood everywhere! So I get him dressed, take Princess to the neighbors house & head to the local civilian ER. We get there at about 7pm (take note of times). 8pm & the Triage nurse finally calls us back. She asks questions, takes his temp, & takes his weight. We go back to the waiting room. Then the desk checks us in. Isn't that a little out of order? It wasn't too crowded when we got there. 9pm rolls around & I am getting a little antsy & Mr Independent is sleeping & bleeding on me. 9:30 I ask the lady at the desk when we would be seen. See tells me to ask the Triage nurse. Mr Independent is sleeping & I am not going to risk losing my seat & having to hold him to go ask. I figured that by 10 we'd be seen. 10pm comes & the lady next to me (totally normal person) said she would save my seat for me. So I go ask the nurse & she tells me that she has no clue. So basically the only way to get seen at the ER is if you arrive in an ambulance. I figure I waited this long I might as well stay because my luck we'd be the next back. 10:30pm & the loonies start trickling in. Sorry, not my thing. I'm peeved by now & covered in blood spots. I also didn't want to keep my neighbors up any longer having to watch Lily. So I pick Robbie up & told them that we were leaving. I get home, get Lily & head to the base ER - where I should have just went in the first place! What an amazing experience (not the right word for the circumstances) compared to the 1st ER. It was still a long night. Oh! Didn't mention why Mr Independent was bleeding. His lip went into his mouth as he fell. His bottom teeth went into the inner bottom lip & the top tooth went through the outer part. He ended up needing 3 stitches. Mainly cosmetic so the lip would heal to the lip & the skin to the skin instead of lip to skin. We didn't get home until 5:30am! Ate a little breakfast & then went to bed. I was worried Princess wouldn't let me sleep but she was out until 2pm. I guess waddling around the ER at 2am wore her out.

Fast forward to today...

Mr Independent got his stitches taken out. He did amazingly well for someone his age having scissors come towards his mouth after being sewn back together by a big scary needle. It healed very nicely. I'm sure as he grows it will become less noticeable. His appointment was during walk in hours & something was telling me to get Princess looked at while we were there. I didn't because I figured she was just teething. She woke up yesterday congested & snotty - her usual signs of teething. She wouldn't take a nap this afternoon & was totally crabby. Worse than her all time worse teething crabbiness. She wouldn't sleep, she didn't want to be rocked, & would you put her on the floor she'd flop around like a fish throwing her pacifier. So I called the pediatrician & got her a rather (lucky) quick appointment. Turns out the poor baby has an ear infection. We've made it over 220 days with out the Pilot & have only a handful left... the kids just couldn't wait & have given me a run for my money this week, lol.

Ok, well I need to pry the rice crispy haunted house that Mr Independent & I made tonight out of his hands. This momma needs to get to bed & not have to chase a sugar high toddler around.