1st broken bone

Last night Jon was out pushing the kids on the swing. I'm not sure what happened, but somehow the swing broke and Dominic dropped about 5 feet to the ground. He caught himself with his right wrist. Jon said he didn't cry, but told Jon that he thought he'd broken his arm.

His wrist wasn't swollen and he could move it, but he favored it quite a bit and we ended up giving him some Tylenol at bedtime.

This morning he was still complaining of pain and wouldn't use it to eat or color. I was so unsure of what to do. He can be a bit dramatic sometimes, but if it was truly broken I didn't want to ignore that.

I finally took him over to his doctor who promptly sent me to an urgent care clinic to get an x-ray.

After a morning and most of the afternoon spent going to different doctors - Dominic has a broken wrist and a nice black cast. Thankfully the doctor put him in a removable cast. I wasn't sure what we were going to do with a active boy in the summer and a cast.

He's been a trooper and is back to playing now.

Hail Damage

Remember the hail story? I made the erroneous comment about being thankful for only one hail damage spot. The next day when the sun came out and we cleared the leaves off of the Acura we found out we had quite a bit more damage. Today we took the cars to get estimates and both cars have a total of over $7300 worth of damage. I could have lived with the damage to the Accord, but Jon's baby (Acura) had very obvious dints so I guess we'll be getting at least one, maybe two cars into the shop as soon as possible.

I was very thankful for insurance today.

Helping and disobedience

The kids have apparently caught the demo bug. I heard Dominic in the bathroom making these horrible grunting noises. I'm sure you can guess what I was imagining. Then I noticed Caitlin run by with a piece of vinyl. I went into the bathroom to find Dominic pulling up pieces. It wasn't glued down, but since the shoe molding was still nailed down he was having difficulty getting the vinyl ripped into tiny pieces.

 

He was then handing Caitlin the pieces for her to put by the door so I could take it out to the trash. Since I had no clue they were going to do this, I was impressed with their neatness in getting everything done.

We had lunch and Caitlin went down for her nap. A few minutes later I was on the phone with Jon telling him about the kids and I hear screaming. It's the kind that makes you drop everything (including the phone) and run. I came into Dominic's bedroom to find his toe caught in a folding stool that he'd been told earlier not to stand on. He'd slipped and caught his toe. His weight as he fell closed the stool onto his foot. Since he was on top of the stool he couldn't get his toe out. If he'd been any heavier it would have broken his toe. It took several seconds (that seemed like minutes) to get the toe out. He screamed the entire time. When I got a look at the toe I was a little concerned. The picture below doesn't show (because it was taken a bit later and he wouldn't be still), but he had a sizable dent and it almost immediately turned purple and started bleeding.

He screamed for over 30 minutes. I finally calmed him down and put him on the couch with angry birds. He spent the afternoon on the couch and then limped around all evening. He will definitely lose his toenail, but nothing appears broken. He was fortunate. It could have gone much worse. I couldn't help myself. I gave him a rather long lecture about obedience. I think this is one lesson he won't forget.

A Little Confused

The kids were playing in the rain and came in completely soaked.

Dominic was trying to express how completely and utterly wet he was.

"I'm wet all the way down to my p____.* And Caitlin is wet all the way down to her digestiff."

"Uhm, Dominic. Don't you mean v____?"*

"Oh right. I forgot. Everyone has a digestiff system. Silly me."

_______________

We are eating supper and Dominic starts talking about letters.

He says the letter W. After repeating it several times, Caitlin started copying him.

"Double U, double U, double me."

_________________

The kids had been bickering all morning. After one incident I told them to hug for a full minute. About half way through Dominic announces -
"This isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. She's actually softer than my seal."
(A super soft stuffed animal)

Two funny things about this -

1. They actually hug quite often.

2. Neither one could remember why they had to hug in the first place. Sigh!

* I have no problems with these words. But according to my blog stats people search the internet looking for key words combined with children. I don't want to block my blog, but I can be more careful so that search engines don't find me when the perverts are out looking.

Father's Day Update

After taking the kids shopping for presents we returned home and tried not to bother Jon so he could have some alone time working on the Model A.

We ate our typical Taco Bell lunch and for supper headed to Bellacino's and 32 Degrees.

 

On the way home we noticed that the sky was getting dark again. It had rained off and on all day. Jon thought he saw green clouds. He tried to hurry, but the storm was faster. It started hailing about 2 minutes after he mentioned the green clouds. We whipped into a church parking lot and tried to take shelter under their vestibule. But the hail was coming sideways and we could still hearing it hitting the car. The kids were a bit freaked out, but when they noticed that mom and dad were enjoying it and taking pictures they calmed down.

We came home once the hail had stopped and were surprised to find tons of ice still on the ground.

There were some pretty large pieces.

The electricity was out and leaves were everywhere. But amazingly our car only had one hail spot. The electric came on right after we went to bed. I'd made sure that the lights were all turned off so we wouldn't be rudely awakened, but Dominic must have turned it back on because he came running into our bedroom the library to let us know his light was on.

In spite of the storm and unusual things I'm hoping that Jon had a wonderful Father's Day.

Why buy toys?

It's on days like this that I wonder why parents bother buying toys.

Jon brings home scrap paper for the kids to use. They draw, paint and color EVERY day so we were really running through the paper. They don't seem to mind the print on one side and it saves us tons of printer paper.

But on this day they found another use for it.

Dominic said he was going to make a snow village. They played for hours in their "snow village" before putting the paper back. 

 We change the sheets every Friday morning. Each kid helps me with their bed and then they both help with mine. But when we got to Dominic's bed, Caitlin found a pillow case and crawled in.

This created several hours of sack races and camping trips with their "sleeping bags".

 

 

 

Dominic LOVES helping me with my chores. He has a container filled with ping pong balls that have chores written on them. He will pull one out and race me to get it finished. But I think his very favorite is washing dishes. I'm wondering how long this will last. =)

Vacation Bible School

Vacation Bible School was so much fun this year. 

I took Dominic and then stayed to help out. Caitlin's bedtime is 7:30pm and she doesn't do well without her sleep so Jon stayed home with her. It also allowed him some alone time once she was in bed to work on the house uninterrupted. 

Dominic could have gone in the preschool class, but I chose to put him in with the "bigger" kids. I'm so glad that I did. He did well  and enjoyed being around the bigger kids.

The decorations were great. I was very impressed.

 I think the crafts were a favorite part. 

He loved having Katie for his crew leader.

The costumes were pretty cool.

 

 

 Waiting for snacks. Maybe this was a favorite. =)

I let him eat whatever the snack was - even when it had sugar. 

Even with lack of sleep and full of sugar he did okay.

Thankfully it was only one week though.

It took quite a few pictures for him to be still enough for me to get this picture.

A huge thank you to all of the people who made this possible. 

It's so great to hear the kids singing the songs and talking about their awesome God.