too full a day

I packed too much into one day. Too many appointments. The day began at 5:30 am when Aiden decided he was very hungry. He slept through til then, but it was still pretty early. Jake heard the commotion and decided to get in on the action. But you know since the alarm was set for 6, it really wasn’t a big deal. So we rushed around to get out of the house by 7, dropped the boys off with Jason at his office by 7:30 and to my physical therapy appointment by 7:45 am. Then we had a lot of time to kill before gymnastics so we drove around a little until Aiden crashed, and then we sat in the car and watched Toy Story! So then at gymnastics Jakob had a meltdown just as they were letting us in to take pictures. We have been banned from taking pictures for the whole session. And this was the week that they were finally letting us in! He wanted to get a drink from the fountain. Which, to me, didn’t seem like such a horrible request but they said no. So I took him out to the observation room and gave him his water cup. After he had his drink I tried to get him back into the room to show me what he has learned so that I could get some good shots of him. Need those shots for the scrapbook, ya know! But he totally wasn’t having it. They tried to coax him to perform but I finally asked them not to and to just let it go. You can’t push him to do something that he doesn’t want to. Within reason. He just needed to time to calm down. And I realized that there are just times in parenting when you have to let it go. You have to let go of your own expectations of what is going to happen and to go with the flow. Be flexible and assess the situation and be prepared to adapt to whatever the wind brings. So we packed it in and headed home. We needed to get home and take a nap right away anyways. So off we went. Jakob was able to nap from 12 to 1:15! A short nap for him, but I didn’t have a choice. We needed to be out the door by 1:30 to get to my appointment in time. Yes, another appointment. Jason was meeting me at Yale for my ENT appointment for my vertigo. The vertigo that had been around for 3 months and then disappeared yesterday! So the Dr. didn’t have anything to look at and diagnose. What a pain in the a**! I was really annoyed. But now we have a bit of a baseline and “relationship”, so if and when it comes back we can have something to go on. During my appointment I could hear Jakob losing it in the waiting room with Jason. It was so sad. I felt bad that he had really been dragged around all day and on such a hot day. In and out of a hot car, and just as it would cool down we would get to where we were going! Poor thing. So when we finally got home from all our outings we sat down and had some Popsicles in front of the air conditioner! He loved it. And the rest of our night went well, and at a much slower pace! Tomorrow we are going to take things slow and not rush anywhere. We’ll get there when we get there.