Accidents Happen!

Yesterday afternoon Nikolai had his first accident that required a trip to Insta Care (we suspect he will be there often). He was standing by the door that leads to the garage and Robert opened the door just right and split his forehead open. He cried for a few minutes while we were trying to clean up the blood and assess if he needed to go to the doctor's for some stitches. He did! So we took him up to Insta Care (our pediatrician office told us to take him to PMC but we felt that he didn't need to go there since the bleeding had already stopped). He was so brave and good to let the nurse look at the cut and then put some numbing gel on the surface just in case he was going to get stitches it would have made the process alot easier. When the they called his name 20 minutes later to go back and have his vital checked he was awesome, he knew how the finger monitor worked (because of dad's portable one) he stood on the scale (34 lbs) and they took his temperature. And then the nurse had to clean the area with a syringe of water so that we make sure it was good and clean to prevent an infection. The doctor looked at it and said we could use the Durabond glue so we would not have to have the stitches..Yippee! He laid so still and let the doctor glue the edge together and off we went. He then spent the rest of the afternoon running an playing and squirting everyone with the syringe that they gave.

Megan is at it Again.....

So a couple of weeks ago I get a call from the daycare. The director is calling shortly after I get to work she leaves a message on my voice mail assuring that the kid are fine but to call them. So I call the day care. The director tells me that there has been an incident with Megan and scissors. Megan has had her haircut by another child in her class. I am laughing at this point because leave it to our kids to cause issues. I asked where the hair has been cut and she said in the back. I was like that is good at least it is not her bangs. When I go home that night and looked at her hair there is a chunk of hair missing in the back. But since I am late coming home (I had an Access Class) I came home and she has taken a Red Crayola Marker and colored her lips, finger nail and toenails. She just want to be a pretty little girl. I asked her what happened to her hair and she said "Aubrey Cut it!". Why did Aubrey cut it? "Because I asked her too." replied Megan.

I could cover the cut job by pulling her hair in a pony tail, but those of us the know Megan knows she does not leave pony tails in for too long so we had to have her hair cut. I now is cut to just above her shoulders and has some layers it the back to cover so the the unevenness that is still visible.

Say Cheeese!!

So it has been a couple of years since our last family pictures. The twins had pictures done this week at school and so I arranged to have ours done this weekend and it worked out perfectly since Tim and Crista are in town. With Tim and Crista getting ready to head to Delaware I thought it would be good to get a family picture before they moved to the East Coast and we don't get to see them as much. The kids are growing so fast I can believe the twins are getting ready to turn 4 and Addy is almost one and Austin is getting taller trying to catch up to Marrissa. Then there is Marissa who is turning 12 in August but looks like she is older.




The Spring is here and everyone is getting antsy and want the warm weather here so we can get and go camping and four wheeling. I have started selling my cards and scrapbook page layout at the quilted bear with a friend. In the first month I have sold almost all the items that I had put in the booth and it has been neat and exciting. Here is a picture of some of the cards I had done.

Megan and the Cell Phone....

Megan has always had such a fascination with cell phones. I don't know how many times we've caught her with our cell phone in her pocket or in her room calling Becky. If Becky gets to many calls from her, she generally call us on our house phone saying that Megan has the phone some where. She has taken the phone to school a couple of times. Well Thursday she took it to school again, the teacher got it away from her and put it up. When Robert picked up the kids and brought them home, he went looking for the phone and couldn't find it. He asked Megan "Where is the cell phone" and she told him "at school". When we called the school to verify this they said yes they hadn't taken it from her but now they couldn't find it. They still hadn't been able to locate it by Friday night so we bought a new phone (I was actually already thinking of doing that any way).

Megan is such a girl and when you ask her why she took the phone to school she just says "I wanted too." As she gets older I can see that she is going to keep up on our toes about everything. Boys, Phones, Make-up and clothes, she is the miniature version of me to a point. She acts like she is the boss now and she is only 3 1/2.

Nikolai is also going to keep up on our toes just because he is so active. He goes non-stop and we can never seem to get him to go to sleep unless we strap him in the car and then he is out within minutes. It is like he know if he stop for 2 seconds he would go to sleep and he just doesn't want to miss anything.

Austin has completed another term at school he got a B in Math (we are so Excited) and then C's in English and Language Arts. He has a hard time concentrate on those subject so we are still working with him. He is also going to scouts every Tuesday night with is fun for him and me.

Robert and I are celebrating our 12Th anniversary today. I can't believe that it has been 12 years. We are going to go out without the kids tonight for dinner. He is the one that has arranged things so I am not sure what else we will be doing.

WOW the time flies....

I can't beleive it is already February! Wow. The time just seems to go by and I can beleive it. The kids are all growing so fast. Nikolai is going in for his second set of Tubes in his ears this week. That should be fun for us. Megan is becoming a little Debbie (as Christie says). Friday she took the Cell Phone to school in her pocket. (I had no idea she had it) when I asked her why she said, "Because I needed it!" and the other day she was over at grandpa's and was aked to go tell grandpa dinner is ready and he said "I will be up in a minute" and she said, "No, you come to dinner now!" They have such personalities and attitudes.

I spent a couple days in 3rd grade with Austin to see how his days are during the rotation through 3 Teachers. (Yes, the have 3 teacher is 3 grade.) It was a real eye opening experience. The challenges that the teachers face today are far more difficult then I remember. We are currently working to get him some extra help with reading and such to ensure he has a successful education. Nothing is more frustrating then having to argue and fight with him to complete his homework for 2 hours a night and that is just to complete a simple worksheet not even working a report.

He has transferred Scout troops and is now part of the Stake Pack which included a few kids from school so it should be fun. He has been excited each time I have picked him up after den meeting. Scout-O rama tickets will be going on sell soon so if you are interested let us know. I beleive they go on sell in March.