of course

and now it is maddux' turn.  he had a little goop in his left eye a few times during the day, but it was white and somewhat 'normal'.  around 4pm he came and got in my lap (i was trying to work at the computer) and went to sleep.  he was fairly restless and couldn't seem to get comfortable so i just laid him on the floor (if i put him in his bed, he wakes up instantly).  he slept on the floor for about 20 minutes and then woke up crying and trying to climb back up on my lap.  i took it for just tired, angry crying.  but once he got back on my lap he kept crying and i noticed he was pulling on his ear.  oh no.  his eye had some more goop and it was starting to lean more towards yellow/green so i decided that we could hurry and get to cvs and back before dinner time. 

manning woke up from his nap.  i pried a clinging, scream/crying maddux off of me and went to get manning.  maddux couldn't seem to be comforted enough to stop crying but when i explained the game plan for getting him checked out he seemed to at least cooperate.  he cried pretty much non-stop for about an hour.  he finally settled down when we were all in the van on our way.  there were two people ahead of us at cvs.  i figured there might be a wait because it is cold and flu season and it was just after 5pm.  it took almost an hour for us to get seen - which put us at dinner time for the kids.  having been here so many times i reached in my bag to get our insurance card before they asked.  only i didn't have my insurance card.  i left my wallet at home in another bag (i had taken my mops bag to a meeting last night and just threw my wallet in since i was traveling without kids and we had not left the house all day so i had not needed it at another other point).  the sad thing is that i thought of this before leaving the house. 

i asked if they could just use the information from when mason was seen on sunday, but, no.  we had to load up and go home for my wallet and hope that no one got ahead of us because it was getting close to when the clinic would close.  we all raced out to the car, drove home, left the kids in the car while i ran in and grabbed my wallet, drove back to the store, unloaded all four kids (yes, i had them all because matt wasn't coming home for dinner tonight) and raced back to the clinic.  we made it before anyone else came in so we were seen right away.

the lady was very thorough.  normally, i appreciate this but since the other three have all had pink eye too, i didn't think she needed to take quite so much time and the kids were getting pretty antsy in that little room.  i was right.  maddux had an ear infection and pink eye - both on the left.  she was having computer problems (which is part of why we had to wait so long) and just printed us a copy of the prescriptions to take to the pharmacy.  we dropped them off, drove across the street to pick up some mcdonalds for dinner and then back to cvs to pick up the prescriptions in the drive-through.  and now home.

it probably took me 30 minutes to administer all of the medications!  mason and maddux both had eye drops, antibiotics and pain killers, madelyn got another 24 hours of her eye drops to help her from catching it from maddux and manning got his eye drops.  apparently the kind of drops the boys have burn their eyes and it is full on contact trying to get them in.  but i did it.  i was just sitting down to relax when matt rolled in.  what a day.  love.