How many people does it take to make an entourage? When I hear "Celebrity so and so and their entourage"...I wonder just how many people is that? Does six children constitute an entourage or is that just a group, maybe I need seven? Does an entourage need a bus or can they ride in the van with me? It's all so unclear when they talk about them on T.V..Should we dress alike, wear sunglasses to hide our identity, and what about signing autographs? Does writing our names in window fog count?
Well I either had an entourage or a pack of maniacs following after me yesterday. We took a trip into town to the ortho to get Bean's retainer fixed then trooped next door to the sandwich shop. Everyone wanted to pick out their own food...NOPE...you get what you get and you don't throw a fit! Yeah...not. I had three toddlers and the restaurant had two high chairs which meant one of the three had to sit in a 'big' chair. I thought one of the boys would like this since they're older but that's what I get for thinking...they both wanted the high chairs, so Cookie, bless her 18 month old heart sat on the 'big' chair and ate. Four of my kids wanted chocolate milk, the restaurant only had three left and not one of the kids wanted soda or juice, any other time and they'd have fought over the juice...Uggh!
Repeat finally drank 'blue juice' because I told her it was 'PowerAide' and she would be more powerful then the rest of us if she drank that instead of chocolate milk. That settled we ate in relative quiet practicing our manners.
Overall the restaurant was a huge sucess and I was impressed with everyones behavior so off to the P.A.R.K. we went.
Apparently mine weren't the only well-behaved children. There were three other daycares at the park! Two looked to be in-home daycares...like mine, the last was a group of 21 children. We [Bean and I] decided that between the two of us we could watch our five children well enough to join this group playing in the 'sand creek'. There were technically three adults watching the larger group, one lady kept a vigilant eye, the second sort of watched the kids and periodically got up off the bench to tend to one, and the third was a volunteer parent who just wanted to stand and gossip, I'm not sure she ever looked in the direction of the children.
In all of this chaos my children stood in stunned silence, I don't think any of them knew what to do with such a large group of wet, dirty, rambunctious children...my kids figured it out quick enough...off came the shoes and up came the voices and away they went. I was constantly counting my kids, finding them in the group and making sure they were o.k.. Mentally I was exhausted and after an hour of playing we loaded up and headed home for some quiet time.
They slept well and I drank a much needed Pepsi...another good day...until they woke up!

Cookie was the first one I heard, she'd only slept about an hour, so I left her in bed to see if she'd lay back down, she did...I thought. Meanwhile my older kids began to move about and finally I heard Little Man yell for me. Buddy [Little Man's cousin] asked if he could get Little Man out of bed and I said "sure, I'll be right there" Guess what Little Man has learned to do? He can take off a poopy diaper...Yep!...you got it! There he sat looking in his dirty diaper. He kept repeating "poopy, poopy?" then he grabbed one up and looked at it...Oh man!...that shocked me out of my stupor. I snatched his hand away preventing him from grabbing yet another handful of poop to look at. I got his diaper rigged shut [barely], scooped him up and off to Cookies room we went, which, by the way is also the changing room and playroom. I laid down the changing pad and started to get Little Man cleaned up...no small task. Up pops Cookie looking so cute over the edge of her crib, she starts yelling "out Terrie, out out". Once again Buddy offers help and once again I say sure, because I can really use the help right now.
Buddy starts to lift Cookie up then lets go of her and yelps "she's naked!" NOOOO! NO NO NO...yep...no diaper and pee everywhere! At least it's not poop this time, but come on, two in one day... really...is this necessary Lord?
At times like this I just laugh, what else is there to do? I got everyone cleaned up and disinfected the beds, and we had a snack.
Bet Oprah's entourage isn't as interesting as mine. I am so looking forward to tomorrow...because that means I made it through today. Bye for now T.