Sledding

Just a couple from this morning. Scott got a workout, after he shoveled the whole driveway, by pulling Nicholas up and down.

Ellie loved tagging along too!

Stitches Revealed

We got to take the gauze off tonight. We showed Nicholas in the mirror and he looked a bit worried about it. I don't know if you can really tell in the picture (you can click on it to make it a little bigger), but the stitches look really long. Is this normal? I would have thought they would have trimmed them a bit shorter before we left. Well hopefully he won't pull on them!

Stitches

Last night we had a new experience - rushing Nicholas to the Urgent Care.

We were visiting Scott's Mom at Spectrum Continuing Care and Nicholas was playing with the toys they have there. We were there for only about 15 minutes when he ran back to Scott's Dad (who had malted milk balls he was sharing with Nicholas) and he tripped. He flew right into the corner of the chair. It was so sad - it all happened in slow motion for me and I knew it wasn't going to be something I could just make better with a kiss. I picked him up and it just started to gush blood. I could hardly get him to the urgent care quick enough. Its awful knowing that you have to put him through more pain in order to get better.

He did so good when we got there though. He hardly cried at all until they had to wrap him in a papoose so he couldn't move his arms - then he screamed! He screamed "mo more, mo more" through the whole thing, but the second they unwrapped him he laughed and said "oh wow" - that was it - he was happy again. Six stitches later and he was off and running around.

We never got to eat supper so on the way home we finally went to Steak N Shake. We must have been a sight - Nicholas had this big patch on his head and blood on his shirt and I had blood on my coat too. He was acting fine, but he must not have been feeling all that well since he hates hats on his head - he put this one on (and left it on) the whole time we were there!

Here are a couple from this morning too...


I hope that's the last time we ever have to do that!!! :)

Bath Time

Dreams

I was just reading one of Michelle's blog posts and it made me remember the dream I had last night.

I actually dreamt that we named our baby girl Speedo Frito DeBoer!

And in my dream I was so excited about the name we came up with - I'm definitely glad I woke up! :)

Help

So . . . I am scheduled for a c-section in 48 days - I can't even believe I have less than 7 weeks to go! Since we are having a girl this time around, I obviously have to come up with a new title for my blog. I have absolutely no ideas . . . any thoughts?

Happy New Year!

I guess its a good thing I didn't make being a better blogger part of my new year's resolution :)

As of the end of this month I will be taking a break from doing sessions and begin my maternity leave - yeah! I hope to finish up all of my orders in February and take the last few weeks to spend time with my family - enjoying the freedom that comes with having only one child :)

Here is the only way I am able to get Nicholas to let me take his picture anymore - I have to let him do it. I bought a remote for my camera so that he can take his own pictures (well I am holding the camera, but he makes the flash go off). Worked like a charm for our Christmas card photos! So don't mind the pj's or the grubby face - I take what I can get these days!!!