our little family tree: hilarious

the day went something like this:

after the 8:00 AM drop off we headed to the YMCA so i could workout. i put the kids in childcare, found a magazine and headed towards a bike to "workout". would you believe the power went out about 5 minutes after i got on the bike. after some confirmation that a transformer blew and the whole "block" was out of power i knew i should probably head to get the kids, thinking all of the kids in childcare were probably freaking out. i didn't really want to workout today anyway. i go pick up the kids... while getting nora and paige, wade sees me. and maybe out of shear excitement from seeing me he pees in his pants right there on the floor. fabulous. i try to get to the car as quickly as possible and hopefully not have the same experience i had exiting the day before. since it is only 9:00 AM we stop by trader joes. (i love their semi sweet morsels!) at least everything went well in there. wade even told the nice lady checking us out that he peed in his pants yesterday and today. she gave him extra stickers because she thought he was hilarious. (mam, that is probably just fueling the flame because that kid LOVES stickers.) we got home and tried to put nora down for a nap... paige and wade made that unsuccessful. so we ate lunch at 10:30 AM today... and then i rushed to get everyone in the car to get to nora's 4 month check up. all of the kids did really well in the doctor's office, i was shocked. the kids each get to pick out a sticker, and because they behaved so well i decide they can have two. while wade is having a little trouble deciding which sticker to get, paige is unrolling the whole thing of stickers, again. and then somewhere between saying thank you with my receipt in hand and heading to the door wade LOSES it. apparently, he really wanted the bob the builder sticker. but because of his outburst i decide to be hard core and tell him it is time to go. just imagine what the next longest three to five minutes of my life looked like. i had nora in a sling, paige running around, and wade yelling and kicking on the floor of the waiting room. i couldn't get a good grip on him because of nora in the sling who is now crying both from the 4 shots she just had and the fact that she is being whipped around as i try to wrangle her brother. paige is looking at herself in the mirror. at this moment i really didn't know what to do. i finally get wade around the corner from his main audience to the sick waiting area. a mother graciously offers me her help. (of course i am thinking about the sick kid with her) she asks about getting paige, but really she is the best behaved at the moment. i ask her to grab nora out of the sling, because she has kicked up her crying to another notch louder while i am trying not to accidentally rip wade's arm out of socket. i wrestle wade into the empty stroller that i had, clever huh. we have a little "chat" quickly. no stickers. stop fighting. i get nora back from the mom of the sick kid (don't you wonder what the child was sick with???) and try to get to the door except wade is arching his back and putting his feet on the ground keeping the stroller from moving. i tip the stroller backwards on two wheels, and we are moving. don't forget wade is still crying and nora begins to cry again too and paige is just having trouble focusing on the task of walking. we try to regroup in the hallway. this is when i realize i am dripping with sweat and i got a workout in today after all.