We’re always a little put out when one of the tykes wakes up sick. It means one of us has to miss work or attempt to work from home (which, if you’ve tried it, know it takes skill) while taking care of said sick one.
This morning, Jackson woke up with a swollen pink-ish eye and he cried that it hurt and wouldn’t open it. Probably Pink Eye, we thought. We didn’t want to contaminate Joy’s house (our daycare provider), so I stayed home with him and made an appointment with the doctor to see what it is/how to care for it.
I’ve gotten in about 20 minutes of work so far and it’s almost 2:30. But I have to say, it’s been a pretty fun day. Jack started to feel a little better about 8:00am and has been talking my ear off all morning. I’ve heard the most amazing stories. He drank almost my entire can of Diet Coke, told me all about the shows he was watching, poured all of Shadow’s water into her food bowl—just some of the things this little boy likes to do. He told me about volcanoes and requested that we watch some on the computer (“Dad’s computer”, he requested). So we did—pretty amazing.
On the way to the doctor, we stopped off to get a drink at McDonalds, saw several garbage trucks, school buses and “honk honk’s” (semi-trucks). He pointed out every one of them with enthusiasm only an almost-three-year-old can provide. He was cute-as-can be at the doctor: took out two pieces of gum from my purse when I wasn’t looking, read me a Curious George book with Fire Trucks, and so forth. Of course, when Dr. Buchanan came into the room he had nothing to say/face emotionless.
We got our prescription for eye drops and headed over the car wash. I assumed it would take about 15 minutes for a wash/interior clean. Then we could get his eye drops, head home, get him to sleep and me to work in my office downstairs. The car wash was the busiest place in the valley, but I didn’t realize how busy until my car was half-way through the cycle. About 20 minutes, a package of Swedish Fish and 3 bouncy balls into it, we went to see where we were line. No joke, there were about 6 cars ahead of us waiting for detailing. So what did we do?
We walked over the McDonalds. Jackson ate fries, drank another Sprite and played with his new Batman toy. I learned all sorts of new interesting things about Batman and bouncy-balls. He named one of them “Mom”, another “Jackson” and the third “Dadio”. (I guess “Brooke” would be the name of the fourth ball he requested later).
We’re home, he’s sleeping, I’m on my work laptop…but I just had to write it all down. It’s not very often I get to spend one on one time with Jackson or Brooke. Even though illness and germs are usually involved on these days, sometimes they’re pretty fun too.
Here’s to a great week!
JC
P.S. Don’t worry—we washed his hands really, really well after McDonalds. These next few days will be a hand sanitizer festival at our house!
1 comment:
Jill, it is so great you are doing this blog. These are things you would have forgotten over time. I am enjoying reading about the kids. I have tried your two oreo recipes. Thanks alot, I didn't need to know that they exsisted.
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