what a day!

I'm done. This day...wow!
The day started out all right, everybody was happy and slept within the marginal terms of "good." Or "well" if you prefer proper grammar. I had to run to the drugstore and to the doctor's office with a question. So I wound up having to bring Joshua in to be seen due to a rash on his face that is either an infection or a latex allergy, and she's not commiting to either one, so he gets antibiotics. Wheeeee.
But, still. OK. I knew I had to run to the store for a bit(out of formula), as well as pick up the prescription, so I had planned a busy afternoon.

I got locked in Joshua's bedroom, instead.

To preface, this door did not have any doorknob on it when we moved in. Neither did the closets in that room, so we assumed they had taken them off for the safety of a small child. Joshua has yet to discover his bedroom door, and we've been here for two months. Given his "doh" fascination, this is surprising, but there it is. Well, Holley was asleep in the living room and I went in with him to mess around with some stuff. I needed to put something on the wall behind his door, so I say "Go ahead, close the door." He closed the door. Then we couldn't get back out. Whoever took the doorknobs off, LEFT the latching/locking mechanism on the stupid door! I couldn't get a good enough gribp on the edges to pull the thing enough to bend the lock, and I had child-proofed Joshua's room. Wait. The closet! I had some small storage stuff in his closet! Hmmm....let's see. Christmas wrap. No. Gift bags. Maybe....try that, nope. Empty guitar hardshell case. Well, that's not going to pick a lock. The rest is out-of-season clothing. hmmm. well....there are safety pins on the corners of his bed tent! The door broke the head off as I was trying to pick the lock. Sigh. The window! There's a safety guard on it, but if I can get that off, I can jump out and ring the doorbell until the landlady answers it and helps me! OK, who the heck screwed the safety gate onto the window? I don't have a screwdriver!! Holley has awakened. She's crying and upset. Start to panic about the fact that it's nearly 3 hours or more until Shaun gets home! Yell out the window. "HELLO? I NEED HELP!! HELLO? ANYBODY? HELLO????" The guitar case. Joshua stands at the window yelling "H'WO? H'WO???" That guitar case would make a great battering ram! Yeah, good idea, poor execution. It didn't work. Start crying with Holley. Back to the window to yell for help. The landlady(who lives right upstairs) is home. Finally I hear from the upstairs window. "Megan? Do you need something?" Uh, yeah. HELP. duh. Freakin' out, I just asked her to please come and get the baby and help me get out. She does, of course, and calmed Holley, then picked the lock with a knife from the kitchen. And thank goodness she was home. She said "I thought I heard something funny." Oh well. At least she could come and get me out. Holley had wet and was hungry! poor thing. Shaun came home from work and fixed the rest of it(read:removed)


So, Okay, by the time I calmed down, Shaun was almost off of work. So I go get him and we head to the shopping plaza, where EVERYONE IS SOLD OUT OF MY FORMULA. Holley has a low tolerance for the other kinds. Great, now I'm just irritated. We bought a can of the Enfamil brand equivalent, but we will see. Some kids can go back and forth, but Holley can't even tolerate the powder, so we aren't sure about this. And when I asked if I could order two cases ahead---(that's twelve bottles, we do one bottle per day), they tell me that they do do pre-orders or order in any especially for a customer. Shoot me now. We have to go back out tomorrow and pick some up from Target, who usually is the only place that has plenty.

With everything that went on today, I remembered to bake bread, but forgot to make supper so we had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for dinner. ha ha ha.

By the way, the images today are of Joshua at 2 months old and Holley at 4 months(well, today). Both barely fit into the snowsuit at these respectable marks, but I wanted the matching pictures!