Jut had a 'fun' day yesterday with Elizabeth while I went subbing. I think he's more thankful all the time that he's back to work full-time and I'm staying home...especially with days like yesterday...
The day started at 8:45 receiving a call from Alma to sub in 1st grade music. They were desperate for a warm body, and so I accepted the call. Jut actually had Friday off this week instead of Thursday. But, he still had some work to do at the church so he dropped me off at the school.
He and E went to the church. E did fairly well playing, but Jut didn't get too much done before lunch time came around. They brought me some Wendy's and went home to eat their lunch. Upon arriving at the house, Jut finds out that he's locked out. There is a door between our back door and kitchen, which we don't have a key to, and sometimes it gets locked. All of the easily accessible windows to the house are, of course, locked. Well, Jut tries to take the window out in the door to the kitchen, but that is unsuccessful. He then pulls the car underneath the breakfast nook and hops on the hood and both of those windows are also locked. Meanwhile he's trying to keep track of a wandering 1.5 year old. So, none of this is done in a timely fashion. Luckily at this point in time, the neighbors come home and offer him a ladder. So, he uses the ladder to check the windows on the other side of the breakfast nook. Luckily they are open! However, the window is only 18 in x 13 in. He didn't even think he'd really fit through, but after some precarious moments he did manage to hoist himself inside. First challenge of the day is conquered...and it only took a 1/2 hour or so.
E doesn't go down for her nap very well because she's overly tired due to the delay in getting inside the house, but she finally goes down.
I arrive home around 3. Thankfully, a very nice teacher from the school brought me home. Jut tries to open the front door and it won't open. The metal thing on the door frame has come loose. So we monkey around with that and in the process wake up E...We finally get the door to open, and find the wood inside the door frame has rotted. So, Jut, my "Bob Vela" goes to the hardware to buy some long screws to fix it by just drilling it in to the good wood behind the bad wood. After several frustrating attempts to get it to work, we call in the reinforcements...namely my dad. He's got more tools and more 'fix-it' skills. I was thankful that it was raining, so that he'd have time to come by. Because Jut had had enough...I think there was steam coming out of his ears by this time. His frustration level had definitely been attained!
So, Dad shows up. Fixes our door so that it would lock. We put E to bed and think its been a long day...little did we know it wasn't even close to being over.
Just as we were getting to go to bed at 11, E wakes up screaming and having trouble breathing. I couldn't get her calmed down so I took her out in the cold to help her airways. That worked. Then, she decided that she was hungry. So, she ate. I decided that we needed to clear her airways better. So, we give her a Vick's bath, which she played in for at least 40 minutes. I kept adding hot water and more hot water and more hot water as the bath cooled. She had a great time. She didn't care that it was after midnight.
Jut hunts down the humidifier and gets it going in her room. We go through her entire bedtime routine, put her down...and she cries, and cries and cries. Long story a bit shorter...I didn't get her to sleep until after 2! We finally figured out that the humidifier absolutely terrified her. Poor girl.
Now the blessing in all of this is that Jut was suppose to be gone to a high school retreat this weekend. Luckily for me, it was cancelled. I'm glad I didn't have to do the 11-2 shift by myself!!
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