Monday, May 31, 2010

Another visit to the ER

It started out as any other day would but when I got Cole dressed this morning and I pulled those white shorts up the first thing that came to my mind was "crap, what is he going to get on those today, and remind me again why I paid money for shorts that will stain so easily?" I bough them because they were super cute! Not practical! I was not expecting them to get covered in blood and chocolate ice cream.  Anyways, here is Cole before the incident....


And then after hearing him screaming bloody murder, he comes running to me and I can see a slight dent on his head but no blood so I thought it may have been grease or dirt.  Nope!  Definitely not grease!  As soon as I blot it off the blood starts running out.



We are pretty sure this is what he hit because I saw him get up right behind his "tricycle motorcycle".




Thank goodness it was only his forehead and not his eye or mouth. But it was obvious he needed stitches and since it was 7:30pm on a holiday (otherwise after hours would have been open and it would have only cost us $45 instead of the $250 bill we will be getting in the mail.

While I was getting Cole checked in, he was talking to the lady at the counter.  I think she was having a hard time concentrating on getting him checked in because he was on fire!  First he started telling her how he had a half circle on his forehead but that it was covered by a butterfly.  He then told her he did "this"(pretended to hit his head on the counter).  She then asked him if he liked worms.  He said "yes, worms do exercises in my hands.  I like ladybugs to crawl on my hands and my mommy takes pictures of them on my hands".  She laughed and then told me I'd better watch what I say or the entire world is going to know about it.

So then we move over to the waiting area.  There is the two of us and one other guy.  How we got so lucky I don't know.  But anyways we watched Scrubs on tv and waited to be called back to the nurse.  After awhile she peeked her head out and called out "Cole" so I stood up and started gathering our stuff. The nurse looks the other way and Cole yells out "Hey!  I'm right here!"  She laughed and said "I was just looking at my friends sitting down over there".  In to the room we go.  She first has him get on the scale.  34 pounds!!!!  He suddenly gained 2 pounds out of no where because he has been 32 pounds since he was 2!  Now he needed to sit still so the oxygen reader on his finger could get his heart rate. Well Cole was way more interested in the Wall-E stickers hanging from the wall and the "camels" in the painting, which he then described to us about how the waterfall was spilling water in to that hole. (It was a painting of what appeared to be a bambi scene)

So after he ran his mouth in there to the nurse, she put us in room number 10.  Cole got a kick out of the bed at first.

Then the nurse came in and put a cotton ball soaked with lidocaine, epinephrine and one other things.  This was to numb the area and stop the bleeding.  Well Cole freaked out because some of the "juice" from the cotton ball dripped down his face and he HATES water on his face.  So I wiped it away and not thinking touched my mouth or tongue at some point because for the next 4 hours my tongue and upper lip were numb.  Anyways, Cole had to sit for about 15 minutes with that bandage on his head and I have never seen him act the way he did.


Before the nurse left I told Cole that after we left we would go get him a treat.  He says "I don't want a treat.  I want a sandwich"  I laughed and the nurse whispered to me "we have turkey sandwiches and popcicles"  So I asked Cole again what he wanted and he said a treat.  So the nurse went to get a popcicle for Cole.  He ate about half and gave it to me because it was "bad" So while I ate the popcicle, Cole was watching the nurses at their desk.  All of a sudden I see him waving and then blowing a kiss to them!  This kid was out of control!!



Shortly after the kissing, Mike showed up and I told him that Cole was in rare form and that I think he hit his head harder than we thought.  Right then Cole yells out to the nurses "I WANT A SANDWICH!!!"
After we finished laughing our heads off the doctor showed up with the nurse and that's when it got interesting.  At first I though Cole would just lay there because he was so good when he got the staple in his head, but the doctor needed to inject more lidocaine and that was not ok with Cole.  Basically I had to pin down his upped half and Mike had the lower half.  Poor kid was freaking out!  About 10 minutes later we were finished and Cole was sobbing in my arms.  I do think half of the reason he was freaking out was due to the snot on his face from crying.  He can't stand a runny nose.

As promised we took Cole to get a treat.  Off to Baskin Robbins we went!  He was super excited to see all the ice cream flavors and happily picked out Fudge Brownie Sundae or something like that.  The video speaks for itself to show you exactly how Cole was acting.


Three stitches later he is doing pretty well!


Sunday, May 30, 2010

Memorial Day Weekend

Today could not have been a nicer day. It was in the mid 80's with a slight breeze. We were in heaven! So relaxing. Our good friends Nicole and Russ came over with Dylan and Jacob. Mike and Russ (mainly Russ) did a ton of electrical work, mainly on my office and then installed a couple of power outlets outdoors. We BBQ'd kabobs, the kids ran laps (or drove cars) on the deck for hours. The big boys missed their naps and the little ones both took great naps. My office is rearranged into a perfect situation where the patio door is no longer behind me which means the horrible glare will be gone forever!!! Hopefully my eyes will start getting better and not feel blurry when looking at the computer. We couldn't make the switch until the electrical work was done because the plugs were in very bad shape, not grounded and the one I needed to use in the switch would shock you when you touched it. Not good at all. After two weekends of weddings I am free until June 13th (with one family session next weekend) so editing time it is for me! I took a break from the computer (ok the power was cut off to the office) but it felt great to sit and relax and hang out with friends.


To me, when I see watermelon it symbolizes summer.


Siena wanted to play with the boys so bad but she kept getting in the way of their bumper cars.

The boys did a lot of this -

and this. Although neither one of them was happy when the balloon popped on them.

and of course they got in may scuffles.

Jacob did a lot of this.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Our garden 2010

Well, once again we missed the whole garden thing this year. The weather has been awful so much that even if we had planted a garden it probably would have been destroyed from the massive amounts of hail, rain, snow, and wind. So today I went out and captured what is our garden so far this year. Mike was going to be mowing it all down so I at least wanted to preserve the beautifulness (is that even a word) of the spring flowers and bugs. I think Mike is determined to get at least one garden box planted (we have 11).
















Friday, May 28, 2010

Attitude


Chores

I got the idea from Nicole (Dylan's Mom) to start having Cole do chores and if he does them all week, then on Friday's he gets a special treat.

His chores include:

making his bed in the morning
picking up his toys at night
putting his dirty clothes in the laundry basket
putting his shoes away

This is how he makes him bed. All the animals go to sleep until his nap time.


I told his once yesterday what his chores were and this morning I asked him if he remembered what his chores were. He said, "I have to put my toys in the drawer and my dirty clothes in there (he points towards the laundry room) and my socks in there (he points to his bedroom). He forgot the bed making and his shoes, but for only telling him once I am impressed he remembered!

His treat this week is making oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.












There are no pictures of the cookies after they were cooked because I burned them. Yes, I burned the weekly treat. I don't bake for a reason. That is what bakeries a for. He still ate some though. I just scrapped off the burned parts. I know, I'm a bad mom. I should have gone and bought him some new ones. But seriously cookie dough is never meant to be cooked. It should be eaten raw.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

What's with this weather?


So here we are, memorial day weekend. It's the weekend that kicks off the start of summer. Camping, hanging out at the river, playing outside all day long, BBQ's and of course late, warm summer nights. But I just don't see that happening anytime soon. It's still raining. It's cold. We have a fire going in the wood stove. It's snowing over the pass and the HWY has been closed down multiple times this week due to snow, car accidents and over turned big rigs. I have been saying for a while now that I think our season are slowly changing. Winter and Spring seem to last until June and fall (beautiful days and crisp nights) last until December. Before we know it Summer will be in December and June, July and August will be our snowy months.

Cole told me he wanted to be a little doggie and go outside. I told him it was too cold and that when it was cold little doggie slept by the fire.