Emily's been drinking

With everything that recently happened with Emily, there is a bit of silliness in it. We ahd to give her a rectal dose of valium. If anyone has ever taken it, the main point is to make you sleepy. But she fights medications that make her sleepy. So, when she got the dose, she couldn't stand, walk or even feed herself, she was so off.
Today wasn't any better. She kept falling down. She couldn't even manage to stand still, without falling over.
She reminded me of the drunk monkey from Dr. Dolittle (the Eddie Murphy version).
The down side is that the medication she is on makes her bruise really easily. So, of course she looks like she was beaten.
But, if she was home with Daddy all day, she got treated like the princess she is. He took her to this new resturant that came to the mall, Wild Buffalo Wings or something like that. She came home with tattoos, a buffalo princess crown and who knows what else. She brought her baby doll with her and the resturant catered to her doll too. Bitty baby got a buffalo princess crown too.
EMily is also in the middle of being punished. She loves gum. Especially the adult ones like Trident, Doublemint, Extra.... She will go through a big pack a week. But right now she's on a week long ban of gum. We have been finding it stuck in the bottom of the window next to her car seats in both our car and Nana's car. She's done with it and just sticks it there.
We have to ground her for things she does wrong. And the worst punishment is taking away her movies. We took them away the other day for breaking her glasses, again. Well, that back fired on us. We often have her watch tv while we are cleaning up from dinner or after she takes her meds at night while we are waiting for her sleeping pill to kick in. She's only ever been allowed to watch three channels. Disney, PBS kids/ Sprout and Noggin. That's it. From what we have seen these are the three channels with the best wholesome, real shows. So, okay Brian and I can sing all of High School musical and Hannah Montana. We know the names of all of the Jonas Brother and wouldn't know a naked brother if we tripped over them. But it's for the best.
Emily has been on an almost exclusive Disney kick for the last three or four months. That's fine. We never have to change the channel.
Well, after she was punsihed, she asked to watch Sprout. It's 24 hours of PBS shows... children's shows. Angelina Ballerina, Thomas the Tank Engine, Kipper. Great shows. If you are a pre schooler. But she loves them. Now that her punishment is over... and I'm not stupid enough to tell her that it's over because I don't think I can handle one more chorus of Chim Chim Chree right now, she's still watching Sprout.
A week or two ago I was home with her all day, while she was sick. She had just gotten Enchanted for Easter. We watched it. It was fine for Mommy. Patrick "Dr. McDreamy" Dempsy. But by the fourth time through, I was beginning to loose it.
Thank God it's getting nice enough out to send her out on the swings for hours at a time. Except that she can't keep her balance long enough not to fall over on her way to the swing!