The week from hell

Last week sucked something major. It had a pretty good ending though, but that shall be a separate post. Anyway, where was I?

Oh yeah. It all started on the 4th of July. We decided when I got off work to drive into a different town to see their fireworks show since our community had some lameass show this year. Plus, Lil Man was asking to see some more fireworks and we figured "well, why the hell not."

Well....why the hell we shouldn't have! We'd never been to this particular fireworks show, so we weren't sure where to park/if we had to walk/how far were we gonna have to walk/where were they shooting the fireworks from/blah blah blah. This all turned into bickering. And I swear to God, why Husband thinks I can just know stuff I will never figure out. It's like "okay, sure honey. Let me pull out the crystal ball from my ass so I can tell you what's going to happen in 45 minutes!" It's hella annoying, okay?

We ended up parking and then watching the fireworks and we sort of calmed down and we enjoyed ourselves. As soon as the fireworks ended we noticed everyone jumped in their cars and were off. In less than a minute. We're thinking "huh. That was interesting. Oh look all the cars are going that way, but let's go ahead and go this way." We got stuck in traffic. We sat still on the road, not moving, for a loooooonnnnggg time. We had our windows down because it was a nice evening.

This is where I am going to tell you that I hate your teenagers. No offense, but your teenager is an asshole, okay? Look, I know you've done the best you can and you're probably a really good mom and dad. You can't help it, but your teenager is an asshole. Sorry.

Some asshole teenager walks by and throws ice at Lil Miss through her open window. Throws.ice.at.a.sevenyearold. Your teenager is an asshole.

(I wanted to get all Mama Bear and go kick some butt, but Husband didn't think it was a good idea) I was fuming. Lil Miss was sobbing because she took it personally. Until we told her those teenagers were Losers. Because they are. Losers and assholes.

Anyway, we decided to pull over into a deserted parking lot and walk down to the Dairy Queen because we weren't going anywhere anyway. And why not get some ice cream? Hooray for ice cream!

Boo for ice cream. Lil Man wanted a red slushie instead of an ice cream. We loaded up, we headed home, getting stuck in traffic once again and then we heard the most god-awful noise from the backseat. That horrible noise we all know. Lil Man was puking. Red slushie goes everywhere. We are able to pull over into another deserted parking lot and we proceed to strip him down and pour water and kind of clean him up. And we just figure it was the car ride plus the red slushie that set him off. He's our random thrower-upper after all.

We were wrong. Lil Man proceeds to puke every hour on the hour that night. And all day Monday. And he slept a lot. And Monday night I got very worried as he was really pale and lethargic. He hadn't kept anything down. And he said things like "My tummy is breaked. My face is breaked." And it was pitiful.

Tuesday he seemed a little better. And we had to drive Lil Miss to camp an hour away. He just laid in his carseat all limp and pale. We didn't bother dressing him. I felt sooooo bad for him And worried. But he made the trip okay. He was still sick on Wednesday, but better.

I weighed him on Wednesday. He's only 28 pounds. He'll be four in September. He's always been small and in the lower percentile for his age. But he was 35 pounds the last time I weighed him. I look at him now and he literally is sooooo small. Maybe it's his new haircut? But mostly I think it was the throwing up. Poor baby. He's 100% better now, and I am very grateful for that!! But this past week was awful. It's never fun having a sick kid. Especially when they are so sick you know you could wind up in the hospital. I did everything I could to keep him hydrated (this was hard since he couldn't keep anything down for two days). No one slept for days. At least I didn't.

Also, it was really hard dropping Lil Miss off at camp and leaving her, but that's a separate post.