Dear Kiki,
Yesterday Benjamin and I took the girls to Izzy's for dinner. It seemed like an easy win - Sydney wanted pizza, I wanted salad and Benjamin wanted food. Prior to dinner we went to the Columbia Employee store to exchange a Christmas present of mine. Sydney and Laura had good behavior and I handled the crowd well despite my burgeoning headache, so dinner seemed like an easy end to an otherwise fun/relaxing day. However, not so much.
On the way to dinner we decided to swing by Walgreen's for allergy medicine. We were not very far along in our journey before Laura Kate began to fuss. It was close to her feeding time so we pulled over and I gave her the bottle I had prepared for her in-advance. Unfortunately this did not seem to placate her and she continued to get madder (and sadder) as we drove. When we got to Walgreen's Benjamin went in to get the medicine while I tried to calm LK down. Instead of drinking the bottle she was chewing furiously on the nipple and when I checked her gums, she acted like she may be teething. Poor Baby! With LK acting so fussy we stopped by the house to get a Mum-Mum for her to chew on as well as some infant Tylenol. When I walked through the front door I was greeted to a huge mess of garbage! Putter had made a mess of the kitchen floor as well as dragged some items on to the living room rug for added enjoyment. With shock and anger I walked over the mess, got my needed items from the kitchen and walked back out the door - after sticking Putter in his kennel of course).
As we pull away from the house Sydney is moaning about how hungry she is, LK is crying and I'm pissed off.
We arrived at Izzy's and proceeded to have a fairly calm dinner. Until we became That Family. You know the one with the screechy baby, inappropriate acting pre-schooler, nagging mom and disconnected dad. LK started yelling and screeching because I guess I wasn't feeding her fast enough, and Sydney was doing her best impression of bad dinner table manners. I was trying to get Sydney to behave while shoving food into LK's mouth. And Benjamin was ignoring all of it.
Until Benjamin noticed that Sydney didn't have her glasses on. She left the house with them on. She left the store with them on. When did she take them off?
He asked her where they were. Her response was a shrug. A SHRUG!! She told us that she took them off while eating so she could see better. "Its okay mommy, I don't need glasses to see with anyway." We searched under the table in all of our coat pockets. We even got the hostess to take apart the seat so we could check in case they fell in the crack between the wall and the seat. Nothing. We have made a big spectacle by this time and Sydney is crying because she has finally figured out that she is in trouble. The whole time this is happening we keep grilling Sydney about where she may have left her glasses. She continues to state that she left them next to her on the booth seat.
We pay for our dinner and pack ourselves out to the car. Sydney is trying to negotiate her way out of an early bedtime punishment by suggesting other forms of loss privileges while I am explaining what a big deal her losing her glasses is. Out the car we get Sydney and LK buckled in then Benjamin uses the light on his phone to double check around the carseats to see if maybe by chance the glasses are in the car, Low and behold they are. ON THE FLOOR OF THE CAR. Sydney's response, "Oh there they are".
It was an early bedtime at the Lee House last night.
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