The Mother of the Year!

So, it's been a bit of a long week around the Davis Homestead. Jeff is on 2nd shift and this always throws our schedule into a bit of a tailspin. I am usually pretty good at staying organized, but this week I am not on my game at all! It may be in part that my 'only a virus' head cold has lasted four weeks now (an appt to the doctor is on the schedule for tomorrowing morning) and getting up at 5 a.m. for the past three weeks to excercise is wearing on my not 100% body.

So, this brings me to my award that I am SO proud to share with all of you, Mother of the Year 2012! (And it's only January) Let me set the scence for you, I am trying to get supper done last night so that we can get out the door to Aiden's swim lessons. Ty crawls up onto the kitchen like he does 20 times per day and he totally biffed it! All was well and we carried on with supper prep. As I was getting food out of the oven, Ty then grabbed Aiden's medicine syringe from the kitchen counter and takes the whole dose...2 tbsp....of an Antihistamine! OK, I think to myself based on his age and weight, did he overdose?!? I mean he took the WHOLE dose!!! So, a friendly phone call to the Poison Control Center was made! After a 10 minute conversation with the greatest lady ever, I was told that based on his age/weight he did NOT overdose, but he may either be a) really tired or b) really hyperactive  (great! how much more hyper can he be?!?) I knew that the  tiredness or hyperactiveness were the side effects for a toddler for an antihistamine and I was so relieved that is all that I had to potentially deal with...a visit to the ER was not on our evening schedule! So, after hearing that he should be fine, we all piled into the van for swim lessons. I had this great idea all week to let Tyson swim while Aiden was having his lesson. The swimming was uneventful, but COULD have been another fine mothering moment...I forgot to put a swim diaper on Tyson...I mean no diaper at all! Great, that's all I needed to end my night was a clearing of the U of I Rec Center pool for the night because my 2 year old pooped in the pool!

Tyson was his normal self all night and the medicince didn't even phase him! So, after getting the boys' FINALLY to bed around 8:45, I called it a night with an episode of The Middle (love this show, it makes me feel good about my dysfunctional parenting skills at times) and I treated myself to potato chips AND an ice cream treat...and counted every Weight Watcher Point with great pride thank-you very much!

So, here I sit on Thursday night at 8:09 p.m. with both boys' tucked into bed enjoying the silence of my house. TGIF people....TGIF!