Retail therapy

We have had so many doctors appointments this week and nobody is sick! Carter had to have xrays on his legs yesterday because they were growing kind of knock-kneed. Anyway, after talking to him and promising a trip to the donut shop after his appt. I thought we were okay. When we went in the xray room he started screaming, crying, kicking, scared to death. It was awful!! So I had one nurse watching Averi out in the hall while me and 2 other nurses held Carter down. After 3 tries taking the xrays they finally gave up on getting a good one. After all of this, his legs are fine and I'm thinking why in the world did we have to do all of this?!
After a dozen donut holes, a chocolate donut, and one with sprinkles we were doing pretty well.
After shopping and buying a cute little black dress I had almost forgotten the whole experience.
What is it about retail therapy that really does work?
Then today, Carter got in trouble for the first time at Mother's Day Out. His teacher told me she couldn't get him to stay on his nap mat. I guess if this is the worst of our problems, we are doing okay. There's just something about that first "discussion" with the teacher and knowing that your sweet little boy isn't always sweet. Even though I already knew that...maybe I should just go shopping some more!