At The Car Wash...Yeah!

Susanne started off her day with a nice, relaxing shower. She was going to try to clean the house, with the emphasis on "try". She decided to pump before getting started. Unfortunately, one of the bags that collects the milk broke and spilled all over her bed. This was not what she was hoping to have to clean up today.

Susanne was proving to be very productive, which was not always the case since she had a baby. She did a lot of laundry, vacuumed, swept, and mopped. Lastly, she cleaned the litter box. Usually, after Susanne cleaned the litter box, it was almost a given that Figaro would immediately go in and mark his territory. He's always had to beat Chloe to the punch. It was not until after Figaro was finished this time that Susanne realized that she should have dried the floor before putting the litter box back in its place. Due to the fact that Susanne used clumping litter, Figaro's wet feet attracted the litter and tracked it all over the freshly mopped laundry room floor.

The occupational therapist from Early Intervention stopped by around 2:00pm. Susanne had to fill out a bunch of paperwork to complete the process for Paxton to receive service. During their meeting, Paxton woke up from his nap. Susanne decided to hold him through the rest of the meeting. Paxton decided to be a show off by showing the OT that he could smile a lot and that he had good head control. Susanne was so proud.

Susanne had to pick up Moppy from the Metro today since her car was still in the shop. Susanne left the house around 4:00pm, which was right after the OT left. She decided not to take anything to be able to feed Paxton in the car because she thought she would definitely be back before 6:30 pm. She was sadly mistaken.

Scott's car needed an oil change like nobody's business, which Scott had been reminding Susanne to take care of for months. Susanne finally had time to get this done before Moppy would be ready to pick up. Whenever Susanne gets her oil changed, she gets a complimentary car wash. She decided to go ahead and get this done as well because it was much needed. Susanne was excited because this would be Paxton's first time going through the car wash and he LOVED it!!! He watched everything very intently. He followed the water as it rinsed the car, he looked at the soap being squirted on the car, and his ultimate favorite was when he watched the big sponges wash the car. He was entertained to say the least.

Susanne knew she would have plenty of time to pick up Paxton's medications from the pharmacy before they closed at 6:00 pm. She decided to do this before going to the Metro because Moppy was running a little behind schedule. Shockingly, it took Susanne over an hour to get to where she needed to be. She knew that traffic would be bad, but not this bad. She made it by the skin of her teeth. She had less than two minutes to spare when she stumbled in the door. Luckily, she caught herself and Paxton was okay. Thankfully, she was able to pick up the medication. That would have really ruined her day.

Susanne was now less than 5 miles from the Metro. Once again, due to traffic it took her another 20 minutes to get there. She followed the sign that said Metro and had an arrow on it. Unfortunately, this was all for the park and ride. She must have past three separate entrances on this road alone and not one of them was what she needed. She had to turn around and figure out where the appropriate entrance was for the kiss and ride. Finally, she saw Moppy. Thank the Lord.

The traffic was still horrible when they left and they were getting nowhere quickly. It took about an hour and a half for them to get back to Susanne's house. By this time, Paxton was way off of his schedule. Susanne felt horrible because her prediction for how long the whole process would take was way off. If this wasn't frustrating enough, when they walked inside, they found the house in disarray. Susanne had left James out thinking that she would only be gone a short while. She thought that she had put everything away that he could potentially get into as well as closed off all of the rooms so he would have to stay in the main area of the house. When she saw the state that the house was in, she realized that she forgot to close one important door...the pantry. They found tupperware, cupcake liners, different canned food items, remnants of the plastic bag that contained a loaf of bread, and candy all strewn about. Worst of all, he had opened up a bag of flour all over the floor. He made quite the mess. After talking with Scott, Susanne realized that the candy that was left over was only a small portion of what had been in the bag. James apparantly has good taste because he ate all of the chocolate pieces and left no trace that they ever existed. This can be toxic to dogs. Thankfully, most of it was white chocolate which is less toxic than the other types of chocolate. Susanne would have induced vomiting to see if she could clear his system, but since she was gone so long it was hard to know when he ate the chocolate. She decided she was going to just monitor him closely and bring him into to work if he showed any ill effects from his escapade.

After getting Paxton situated, Susanne spent some time with the rescue cat, Ashley. Then it was dinner and off to bed. She was going to rest well this evening.