God give me patience!!

So Tim's out of town for a few days, so it's just me and my four kiddies!! Today started out wonderful, took Max for a nice long walk to the kids school to give Livy her shot. Max fell asleep in the stroller so I walked some more and then just pushed the stroller in the house. I was able to eat lunch in complete peace and even pick up without someone following me around taking the things back out!!

Max only slept for like a hour or so, this is where my problem starts. We go get the kids from school, get most of their homework done and outside we go. Usually Max is sleeping for this part of the day...not today!! He's a crazy man running all over the place, taunting me by putting his foot in the road looking at me saying "nooooo" and then running in the darn road!!! UGH!! So I chase this child around the street for the next two hours, take him for a bike ride, try to play basketball with Harrison and almost getting a chance to have a grown up conversation with my neighbors!

My friend Robin and Elizabeth invite us to go to dinner with them, I thought that sounded wonderful...I didn't have to cook :) This is when I think I might loose my mind. We go to McAlisters deli, kids eat free on Tuesday so we showed up with 10 of them and 3 of us adults. Max decides right there and then he's going to single handily try to push my patience farther than any other child has before. He is SCREAMING in this place, trying to run from me, I'm trying to hold him, he's trying to hit me over and over, people are staring!! My mind thinks people are looking at me and thinking a few things, here's a few of the top ones...1. this lady cannot control her child, she should not be bringing him out in public, 2. this lady has too many kids and they are so misbehaved, 3. what the hell was this lady thinking bringing her four children out to dinner by herself!!

While Max was screaming his head off Olivia just couldn't decide what she wanted to eat, I was not so pleasant with her because of Max, this makes me feel lousy!! I was short with her telling her that she just wouldn't eat dinner if she couldn't decide. In my defense I did go over the menu with her 4 times, ask the lady about two of the items, all while I'm holding onto Max in a death grip while he screams bloody hell!! AHHHH

So we get our food ordered and sit down, Max then decides he doesn't want his pop, he wants mine!! Like heck I'm giving this child caffeine right now, because I'm so planning on taking him home and plopping his little hiney in bed early tonight!! So he cries some more, more people stare and judge, I feel guilty about how bad he's acting out with my friends..I'm sure they're going to want to invite me out again really soon :)

He eats his dinner, he picks off my plate, he gets on my lap off my lap. When he's finished he then decides that he's going to run around the restaurant and make me chase him, grab him and then of course scream some more!! After maybe 10 min's of this I tell the kids it's time to leave!! When I'm done buckling this child into the car and get into my seat I swear I melted into my seat for just a moment saying "Thank God that he's strapped in some where"!!

One of my big mistakes was not grabbing a high chair for him, I was already struggling with him so much that I didn't know how I was going to do this. Little did I know it would of be darn worth it!! O and ya Tim took me out to breakfast yesterday, Max broke a plate there..nice!!

So I guess it's boot camp time on our little monster, wish me luck I'm defiantly going to need it to tame this wild child!!!