Saturday, December 22, 2007

What I did on my "day off"

I meant to post this little story a few days ago, but I had to go back to work so I am just now getting around to it. This past Tuesday was my first full day off in over a week. (Working nights I am either sleeping in the morning or working that night - I have to have 2 nights off in a row to get a "full" day off). Needless to say, I had big plans to get some stuff done. Seeing as I had been working and Jon was in finals the previous week, the house was a disaster, laundry and dishes needed to be done, etc. I was ready to roll up my sleeves and dig in.

So we started the day with a little trip down to the oral surgeon to get Jon's wisdom teeth out. Thank goodness they had a special waiting room in the back for us that was small and enclosed so Brady could run around. Jon's surgery took about 45 minutes, and then they let us out to see him. Here are some highlights of the next hour. Mind you, Jon is sitting in a chair with a mouth full of gauze and drugged up with bloodshot eyes and all. He was pretty much acting like a 5 year old. It was hilarous.

Cheryl: "hey honey, how'd it go?"
Jon: "Why are you smiling at me?"
Cheryl: "Ummm, because you have a mouth full of gauze"

Nurse: "Did you want to keep your teeth?"
Jon: "yea, I'm going to sell them on Ebay"
Cheryl: "What? Why do you want to sell them?"
Jon: "You can buy a kidney on Ebay, I think I can sell my teeth on Ebay!"

I then went downstairs to bring the car around to the front. The nurse helped Jon into the car, and then Jon starts messing with the air/heater.

Cheryl: "What do you want?"
Jon: "hot hot, it's hot"
Cheryl: "Ok, let me turn on the air"
Jon: "No, hot!!"
Cheryl: "Oh, you want it hot. Ok. " (I turn the heat on low, Jon then cranks it up to full blast"

~~5 minutes later~~
Jon: "Why is it so hot in here?!?!"
Cheryl: "Because you wanted the heater on"
Jon: "I didn't turn it on, you're the one who's cold you ESKIMO!"

~~Almost home, stopped at McDonalds to get him a milkshake~~
McDonalds lady: "Can I take your order"
Jon: I want a big mac!!
Cheryl: No you can't have that. What kind of milkshake?
Jon: I want a big mac. And fries.
Cheryl: Chocolate, strawberry, vanilla. Pick a flavor"
Jon: Why can't I have a big mac? I cut it up!
Cheryl: Milkshake.
Jon: I want a carmel sundae.
Cheryl: No sundae. Milkshake!!

Against Jon's will, a strawberry milkshake was ordered and he was passed out again before we even got to the pickup window.

Other funny scenes from the ride home: Jon geting mad at me for not giving the homeless lady (who wasn't homeless, just walking) some money, Jon plastering his face up against the window yelling/slurring "I'm on drugs!!! Rock on!!! I feel happppyyyyyy!"

So we get home, I get Jon set up on the couch where he immediately falls asleep. Brady and I headed in to his room to fold up laundry. I put Brady in his crib to play for a few minutes to keep him contained while I put stuff away. He was standing up and babbling away, and a second later I look over to see him going head first over the siderail where he promptly landed on his head!!!!!!! (Mother of the year here who was .000001 seconds away from breaking his fall) So to make a long story short I called his pediatrician who was nice enough to fit us in an hour later just to make sure everything was ok. (Which it was). She said she has never had a 12 month old crawl out of their crib. He's such a little monkey!

By this time it was already after 3pm. We went home to continue the house pickup. A little later Jon started to come out of his drug induced state and he told me he wanted homemade chicken noodle soup. So we called his mom (because she had the best recipe) and by some miracle mine turned out pretty good!! We went to bed with the house looking worse that it did when we started, but that was ok. I was just happy that my baby didn't have a fractured skull and Jon wasn't experiencing too much pain from the surgery. And we all had full tummies of chicken noodle soup!!!

Good times.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

oh my gosh- I am seriously laughing out loud picturing Jon hopped up on painkillers. Poor Brady- the little mountain goat. And poor Cheryl- it stinks when you have a plan to totally clean up and then the universe conspires against you!

hughes' said...

Well, that was hilarious. However, somehow it really didn't surprise me. It really only made me feel like I was living at home again. Sadly I remeber many times similar with Jon, only I really don't recall any drugs!!!

I too am a little surprised that a 12 month old climbed out of the crib!! Although, thinking about it, I believe Jon did break the bars on his crib to get out. You definitely have your hands full Cheryl!!! Good luck to you!!

CCmomma said...

Hey Cheryl, it's Corrine, I'm glad i found you! That was a hilarious post. Poor Jon and his pain/drugs etc.. all for the expense of a little comedy! Do they make safety LIDS for cribs. You know, like out of screen material??? Okay that's just silly. He's pretty young to be climbing already, Get one of those harness things, and some rock climbing shoes and let him lose-Okay don't really do that! Check out our blog too
www.thechristianclan.blogspot.com

Aim said...

hahahahahahahaha! Oh cher bear! I haven't seen your blog in so long cause things have been nuts around here but I seriously almost peed my pants on this one! hahahaha oh man you tell the best stories! Your pics are adorable too! miss you!

love you!

amie

Anonymous said...

That is FUNNY!! I wish I could have seen Jon in that state. I remember having my wisdom teeth removed and how out of it I felt. I don't remember feeling hot...wait maybe it was cold??

Brian

Gallegos Family said...

That has to be the funniest thing EVER! I was laughing out loud. You are so funny! I took Jenn home from WT surgery. Amie and I brought the video camera. I wonder where that is???? Hilarious.