Mother's Day

I'm extremely frustrated because I have been trying to post about Ben's birthday for about a week, but my blog or computer isn't letting me upload videos anymore. The problem is that I have nothing but videos that I wanted to post so that you could see what Ben has been doing, so without them I have no visual aids. It is most frustrating! I even tried to upload them to YouTube and then attach the links, but even YouTube shut me down. It has got to be my computer. Anyway, the very next day after I posted about Landon's birthday and how normal it all was, I had to take Landon for his five year well child visit, and we had a severe relapse into craziness. They needed to check his ears and eyes so that he would have an updated eye, ear, and dental form to start kindergarten. He was really good at the eye part, and covered each eye one at a time and told the nurse the different shapes and pictures he saw, but when we got to the ear part, he turned into Mr. Hyde! They just wanted to put little ear pieces into his ears to test his hearing and he just wasn't having it! We did manage to fight him until that was done, but when the doctor came in and tried to have a look in his ears to see if he still had his tubes, he was just DONE having people mess with his ears! He flat said "All done ears!" and wouldn't let us near him. When I tried to hold his head still for her he got angrier and then when we both tried to hold him down he panicked and lashed out with all his strength! He was kicking the doctor, chairs were literally flying across the room, he was screaming, hitting, kicking and acting like he was fighting for his little life. You could tell from looking at the raw panic on his face that he was gone and couldn't be reasoned with. Needless to say, we don't know if he still has his tubes in his ears or not. I was shaky and beyond embarrassed because that was our very first time going to that doctor, and Landon had a meltdown and kicked her! Once he realized that we weren't going to mess with him anymore, he was completely normal and hopping around and playing with his spider man stickers. As we were leaving, we saw one of Landon's teachers in the waiting room with her own son and Landon went skipping over and said "Hi, Miss Pauline!" I sat down by her with my hands shaking and told her how bad he just was and I started to break down in front of her! He is just so emotionally draining sometimes! The funny part is that he is normally so so mellow and sweet! He will be calm and sweet and laid back, and then something will just make him snap! I just wanted to show a picture of what his teachers sent me for Mother's Day because I think it's funny and a little ironic.

Yes, such an angel!