Funny

2 funny things about Jadyn...

1.  We were just talking about taking a nap and then we would go to the store. He said okay. He then told me in a very calm matter of fact voice, "but mommy, I am going to cry."  He then grabbed his blankie, walked upstairs, and climbed into bed.  I closed the door and sure enough, he cried - only for a minute or so. I now hear him snoring. He told me, didn't he?

2. If you ask him what he is going to do if someone messes with his brother, he says, "stomp them in the face." I am sure you can guess who taught him that - that's right, daddy! Isn't that just lovely! 

Traumatized!

Today, Ivan was making dinner while Jadyn and I were vacuuming. The smoke alarm went off for a few seconds.  Jadyn was so freaked out about it! He was literally shaking. We calmed him down and showed him the alarm and told him that when the alarm smelled smoke, it would beep.  Jadyn repeated it over and over and was still shaking after 30 minutes or so.  He kept telling us that the alarm and the smoke scared him.  He kept pointing to it and telling us how loud it was. He did not want to leave either of us.  He asked me to hold him while he watched tv and then he asked me to lay down with him for a few minutes before bed (which we never do). My poor kid is traumatized.  I wouldn't be surprised if he wakes up in the middle of the night or when he first wakes up, if he talks about it again. I just hope for no nightmares!

On a different note, Jadyn cracked me up.  When I put him down for a nap, he was only in a pull up. After he fell asleep, I opened his door since we didn't have the monitor plugged in (it was still in the suit case) and I can barely hear him through the door. Needless to say, my child took off the pull up and was sleeping naked with his butt in the air.  Luckily, no accidents!!!  I was laughing so hard, I am surprised I didn't wake him up. I did take a picture though - there was no way I was going to miss that opportunity.  

In the few days that Jadyn and Ivan went to Florida, Jadyn has changed so much.  I swear he is talking more and that he grew taller. As much as I missed my boys, I really did enjoy some "me" time.  It's been a long time since I ate dinner on the couch in front of the tv, or watched tv in bed before actually getting up, etc. 

Well until next time...,

Busted Eye!

I am a bit exhausted today.  I fell asleep on the couch last night at about 10:30 and woke up at 1:30. For whatever reason, I couldn't fall back asleep until 5. Luckily, Jadyn didn't wake up until 8 so I did get some sleep. 

Then this morning, Jadyn and I were getting ready to vacuum his room.  I was rolling the vacuum in the room and he got excited and ran into his room, somehow tripped, and cut his eye on his bed.  So, we took a trip to the ER.  The waiting room didn't look too busy so I was hoping it would be a quick trip.  Yeah right, the triage nurse said that there was only one person in front of us to get a room but that there were 11 patients in rooms waiting to see the one doctor that was there. Ugh! On top of it, I overheard some of the parents talking and it seems that they were concerned their kids had the swine flu. I am sure (and really hoping) they were just overreacting.

So it ended up being a 4 hour trip to the ER.  Jadyn was amazing.  He started getting antsy but I can't blame him at all.  After they put the numbing gel on it, he did not want them touching the bandaid so I was concerned how the stitches were going to go.  But they gave him some medicine to relax him and it really worked.  He didn't cry or complain at all while they did the stitches.  It turned out to be 8 stitches. As soon as we got in the car, he totally crashed.  He was so exhausted.  When he woke up, he was SUPER cranky. I can't blame him since the meds were probably wearing off. We decided to take a drive to calm down and then he played with his friend Austin and he has been great since.  I can already tell that it is going to be very black and blue tomorrow! 

Well, let's hope tomorrow is a better day!

Here is the busted eye...

And waiting for the numbing gel to kick in...

No good...

at blogging.  Obviously I am not good at blogging.  But, I did add a link for our family photos.  Here is you warning - these are the good, the bad, and the ugly.  I am just posting all of our pics. So some (most, all, etc) may not be cute at all!!