Yesterday seemed doomed right from the start.?? For various reasons, Ty and I were both in rare form.?? It just so happened that it was the day Jim and I had reserved for my “private” birthday party of two.?? He was going to leave work early, both kids would be spending the night elsewhere (a VERY rare occurrence), we would go to dinner and then come home for an evening in a quiet house.?? By the end of the day I was feeling very needy of that date.??

I knew my little Denis was going to be a handful.?? The early warning signs were there.?? He was busy busy busy and “the man with the plan” all morning.?? When Grandma arrived at lunchtime to pick up Tanner, Ty didn’t let me get a word in.?? He had oh so much to talk about and show and tell.?? I finally sent both of them to the playroom so that I could actually talk a moment.?? Grandma knew she had come on a good day to rescue me 🙂 .

When Grandma got ready to leave with Tanner, Ty was down right excited.

“Bye Tanner Bye!!!!?? Go with Grandma now Tanner.?? Your going with Grandma.?? Bye Tanner!!!!!”

Ty knew that Tanner would spend the night with Grandma and that he would be spending the night with Papa and Sweetie so he was anxious for Tanner to be off so he could leave for his evening destination.?? I wanted to give Sweetie as much quiet time as possible so I decided to run a few errands before dropping Ty off.?? He saw me packing his pack and play and was quick to let me know he would NOT be sleeping in that.?? Great.??

I asked him if he wanted Panda for lunch and he said “Uh, I prefer Quiznos“.?? You “prefer”?????? Apparently I say that.?? 🙂

He got Panda.?? “I” preferred Panda and it was MY birthday (well day two of it actually – I was dragging it out).

When we got to the Walmart parking lot I told him we were going to run in to Old Navy first.?? He was playing his gameboy in his car seat and without looking up said “I don’t want to go to Old Navy.?? I’ll just wait in the car.”?? Oh really??? Like I would EVER in a million life times leave my three year old in a Walmart parking lot in the car.?? When I opened his door to get him out, he looked at me with a very serious expression and said “I just called you a punk.”?? I looked at him with a very serious expression and told him what consequences he would be looking at should he ever DARE to call his mother a “punk” again.?? (To be fair, he learned that word from Uncles and Daddy and I am not surprised he tried to exercise this on me at least once).

We got through our trip fairly unscathed but I was anxious to drop the munchkin off with Sweetie and go be by myself for even 30 minutes before Daddy got home.?? (I have been having a bit of a fatigue relapse in the last two weeks and I can’t explain it – I don’t have the heart to even talk about that today but that was the root of my issue yesterday).

When I dropped him off with my mom I said “Watch out.?? This child is in rare form today.”?? Fast forward a couple hours.

Jim and I went to a nice German restaurant in the old town Glendale district for dinner and had a lovely date.?? We debated seeing a movie but I decided that “I preferred” to watch Blood Diamond at home in a quiet house – just me and my lover :).

As we pulled into the driveway my cell phone rang and it was Papa.?? Uh oh.??

“Hi Dad what’s going on?”

“Uh Mom and I left the house for a bit and we left Ty with Rob and Kat and Dusty and Michelle.?? We just wanted to let you know and make sure you are okay with that.”

A moment hesitation on my part

“Uh yah.?? Where are you going?”

“We just had to run out for a bit.”?? (Some stuttering involved in this sentence).

I sat in silence a moment trying to quickly process this.?? Now my dad is a very likely candidate for abandoning child with an Uncle or Aunt to run off and do something more exciting 🙂 .?? My mother however, is the most unlikely candidate on the planet for that action.?? She is ultra responsible and the chances of her leaving Ty with ANYONE to even go get a Sonic coke are so unimaginably unlikely that I don’t think the statistic would exist.?? Completely baffled I??tried to figure out what crisis motivated this.?? With a Pastor you never know.?? He could have been called out on a private emergency that he couldn’t disclose and therefore he was being evasive.?? Still….why would mom go with him??? Had I not asked the next question, he may have kept me in the dark but my question left him little choice but the truth.

“Dad how long are you and mom going to be gone?”

Hesitation on Dad’s part.

“Well a bit.?? (Hesitation again and then with a very light tone) Mom is in the ER”.

“WWWHHHHHAAAAAAAATTTTTTT?”

Mom was tickling Ty and he kept begging “one more time”?? She “one too many timed” and in with great giggling and gusto he threw his head forward and they bonked heads.?? They bonked heads so hard that he put mom in a daze, split her eyebrow open to the bone and she got NINE STICHES!!!!!!?? And if you are wondering, no there was not one scratch on Ty.

Sweetie wants me to make it very clear that he was NOT head banging her.?? He was just giggling and it was completely an accident.

Folks – I leave my little man with his grandmother for ONE NIGHT and he puts her in the Emergency Room!?? GOOOOODDDD GGGGLLLOOOORRRYYYY!!??

Needless to say, Jim and I got back in the car and went to pick Ty up.?? Papa and Sweetie tried to talk us out of it.?? Sweetie didn’t want Papa to tell me where she was but she didn’t feel comfortable leaving Ty and not telling me she did it so they were in a quandary.?? She wanted Papa to go home and take care of Ty and leave her in the ER.?? To which everyone who knows my mother now laughs hysterically.?? Can you imagine??? Ya right.?? THAT would be a good idea.?? She has trouble with her blood pressure because of anxiety to even go to a routine Dr. appointment!?? I was already worried she was at risk of going orthostatic by facing stitches.?? To my knowledge, my mother has never been injured.?? No stitches (short of surgeries) or broken bones ever.?? Jim found it plenty ironic that Dad, who had paid for stitches for the boys for years on end was now still having to pay for stitches – now because of grandchildren.?? (We are offering to pay their copay by the way)

The issue wasn’t leaving Ty with the four previous mentioned, and it turned out Aunt Aimee was there as well.?? The issue was, when my mom got out of the ER she would reclaim her Ty duty and I didn’t think she needed to be worrying about Ty once she got home.??

It worked out because by the time we got him home, we put him straight to bed and we resumed our evening plans.

Jim and I kept shaking our heads all evening though.?? It figures.?? It just figures.

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