Way to start the new year

So yesterday I take my 4 kiddoes to the park for a playdate. Well AJ is crying not hard but you could tell she was hurt, but was walking and holding her chin so I just let her come to me. My kids have learned that I don't run to them! Well she gets over to me and her chin is split bad, not bleeding but split really bad. So the first thought I have is oh God Erik is flying and I really don't want to sit at the ER with 4 kids. Well luckily everyone offers to take a child or two. I had no food for Matty so he was stuck with me, but I had takers for Ju-Ju and Mikaela. So I head off to the ER besides the fact that there was like no one there and it took 2.5 hours to be seen it wasn't that bad!! She ended up with 3 stitches and was the bravest kid ever. The doc couldn't believe how willing she was to just lay there and she only teared up with the lydicane shot (those do sting!!). He said with a child her age it is normally 3-4 people holding them down. They told me just to keep ontiment on it but had sent her home with guase taped to it. So we took it off after dinner and she couldn't figure out why the green stuff (numbing gel) had made her grow blue hairs on her chin! It was a long day and I had trouble turning myself off after that. I know I have 4 kids and ER trips are inevidible but this is the second one in 2 months, I hope we are not setting a trend for the new year!
Other than that Christmas was great we were up in Atlanta and the kids had a blast with their cousins and Erik and I had a nice visit. It was strange since his Grandma was still in Chicago but that gave us 2 full rooms to have which was nice we didn't have to pile in one room with all the kids! We even got to see Marge. Matthew and Carli are about the same size she is maybe an 1.5 in taller but they weigh the same! Crazy, Landon is taller and whinier but all is good in their world! Hopefully we get to see them next time we are up in Atlanta since their folks only live about 20 min away!
We headed down to Seaworld. It was insanely busy, but I wanted to use our free day, we even got the person behind us to get us an extra ticket so we didn't have to pay for Kevin. We all got to ride the roller coaster and we only made it to 2 shows, but I was told that the Shamu show sucked so I wasn't too interested in it. It was just too crowded to feed the stingrays or see the shark nursery but ju-ju loved seeing the turtles, dolphins and seal/sea lions. All in all it was a good day. Erik and I fought a lot, we finally worked all that out. He is finally fitting into the rhythem which is nice, but it has been a long month. He expected everything to be as it was before he left but adding Matthew to our family along with my sleep deprivation has taken its toll on me. I am a neat freak but I cannot keep up with the house like I used to. It gets better every month, but still Matthew cannot be unattended because of Ju-Ju so it leaves me very little time to get to stuff. I think Erik is finally getting that, but he just felt I was slacking and didn't care anymore. Oh well we finally hashed that out and I have been making a little more of an effort but it is hard to keep up with 3-4 loads of laundry a day bathrooms that need to be tidied daily and sweeping and vaccumming that also needs to be done daily. Oh as well as the dishes. Oh then my kids walk into the house and it is instatrashed with their crap. Grrr... one day I will be able to clean and not worry about it for a full day!
New Years was our boring New Years we hung out and Erik and Kevin drank. Kevin got so wasted he broke my mouse into a bunch of pieces but all is good he got me the apple mouse I wanted!
Now it is just the countdown to school for everyone I start 4 online classes on Monday! Wish me luck I mastered 3 online and 1 I physically went to so we will see if I can do 4 straight up online!
My AJism of the week: Erik was making grilled cheese sandwhiches and AJ asked for a boy cheese sandwhich since she had had so many girl cheese sandwhiches. She never fails to bring a smile to my face!