Jen's Mental Scribblings

Two incidents in the last few days.

First, Ike was playing with Charlie, who jumped up and pushed Ike backwards, who then tripped over the bouncy seat Gray was sitting in. Thankfully, he missed Gray completely and landed hard on his butt on the other side. Scary.

Second. Gray's first solid food.

I was handing out M&M's as an after lunch dessert, the kids and I were in the office, Gray sitting in the living room in the bouncy seat. I gave the M&M's to Gwen first. In the amount of time it took to hand out M&Ms to the other two, Gwen managed to feed a couple of M&M's to Gray. (Ike watched of course, didn't say anything, just watched) I come into the living room and Ike tells me what she did. I look at Gray and he is obviously working hard at swallowing something.

"You didn't feed him...did you?"

Gwen nods.

Write your own ending to that discussion.

I have to admit, its pretty funny.  My first thought "Wow. That's going to be an entertaining diaper." Second "Man I'm glad he didn't choke" I think she now understands that Mommy is the only one allowed to feed Grayson anything right now.

He came through okay...a few brown and red spit ups as he tried to swallow...but no problem.

Joe just called. Two stitches, no broken bones, and it seems she's inherited my extreme tolerance to painkillers and local anesthetics. Joe said they shot her up twice and it took two people to hold her down while she screamed bloody murder and seemed to be able to feel everything.

My poor Baby!

They are on their way home after a stop at McDonalds for the requested dinner of Chicken Nuggets.

No narcotics...said that Advil should be sufficient.

Okay, there's only two big events worth writing about. I'll start with the less worrisome.

1. After owning a cell phone for over 11 years I finally did something stupid with one.

I left it in my jeans pocket and tossed them into the wash. I now have a squeaky clean phone. Now I have to go out and get a new one. The SIM card has a big of corrosion on it...I'm hoping that won't impede its use...'cause if its busted...I lose all my minutes (over 1500) and my phone number. Which would be annoying. (Why would I lose them? I use a Tracfone, its a pay as you go phone...I've had it for years and its been the cheapest way for me to go)

2. After church we looked at the falling skies and decided we would go someplace "fun" for lunch. (read somewhere where the kids could run around a play and burn off some energy before we take them home for the afternoon) We decided to try the Roundtable pizza we were supposed to go to on Thursday.  Pizza, play, blah, blah.

Until Joe takes Gwen to the bathroom...where she proceeds to utterly smash her fingers in the door leaving the men's room. She comes back crying her head off, Joe hands her to me, I give her some love and notice the blood running down her hand. She must have tried yanking her hand out cause she scraped the skin and flesh on her finger almost down to the bone. Blech.

We grab a clean kitchen towel, some ice in a bag, the other two kids and head for the car. We decide that, yes it needs to be looked at. No, not right this second, no need to go just up the street to Santa Clara Kaiser with EVERYONE.  We can run home, leave everyone not necessary there, and go to the minor injury clinic at the Kaiser near the house. By the time we got home, not only was Ike asleep,  Gwen was too. The blood slowed down to a slow ooze and I noticed that the nailbed on the finger next to the bloody one is cracked and oozing plasma (yuck!)

We let Gwen decide who to take her to the Doctor (not me!), so Joe left me with Ike (still asleep!) and Elli at home.

I'm hoping this won't take 3 hours. I'm hoping they'll look at it and go. "Oh. Here have a band-aid and a tetanus shot"

I'm not holding my breath.

More updates later.

So I promised I'd post when Gwen finally came up with her name when she's pretending to be a dog.

G: "Woof! Woof!"
M: "Hello there doggy. Is there something you want?"
G: " Yes! Popsicle!"
M: "You want a popsicle?"
G: "No! Me Popsicle!"
M: "Wha...Oh! You want to be called Popsicle when you are a doggy!"
G: *nods* "Ruff! Ruff! *pant*" *runs off*

How cute!

We went up to visit my Gram yesterday. We went swimming at her neighbors house. My Dad and Joe were throwing the kids to each other. I think this is my favorite pic of the bunch.



Gwen was definitely catching some air. Everybody had a good time...kids slept well last night...and 2 out of 3 are taking a good nap. In fact, I need to go wake them up.

Scene: Kids sitting on couch watching TV, eating Pizza. Me and Joe finishing dinner at kitchen table.
Gwen: (sings sotto voce, but we can still hear it) When skies *munch*munch* tar grey....You'll neber NO DEEEEEER, *munch*munch* how mudge I blove you. *munch* doan taaaaaake sunshiiiiiiine 'way.

OH MY GOD!!!!!! That was sooooooo adorable! One of the two songs I sing to the kids at bedtime is "You are my Sunshine." Gwen's been singing along lately. That's the first time I've ever heard her singing it on her own.

Okay, so I admit you had to be there...but now its locked into my memory.

Heard this evening.

"Knock, Knock! Open up! Its me!"

Gwen at the front door.

On the road to Disneyland. I'm driving, we pass cows. Lots and lots of cows. And it smells like lots and lots of cows.

I say "Peuw! Stinky Cows"

Gwen responds "Ikey did it!"

Ike says "No I didn't!"

Quick wit...that's my child!

Man that went fast!

Here's one of just the girls



And my favorite shot

Quiz time!

At any point yesterday, did I chase around the house in an attempt to catch:

a: two naked little girls
b: two drenched little girls covered in mud
c: two little girls who swiped frozen waffles from the freezer and were attempting to eat them at the same time
Or
d: all the above


If you answered d  You are correct! Congratulations!