Saturday, November 06, 2010

A Tale of Two Bones

Last night as I was standing at the stove making dinner, Lorelai was screaming because she wanted chocolate pudding, I heard Hilton screaming outside and Caroline screaming at Hilton to stop screaming.  I posted this on my Facebook Status, "It is the witching hour."  I had no idea what I was in for.  The door bell rang and there was Hilton screaming at the top of his lungs that he broke his arm.  I looked at it and told him to go see his father.  One minute later Justin said, "Jenny, he broke his arm, we need to take him in and I have to get back to work."

Well, I got Caroline to babysit, took dinner off the stove, got in the car and proceeded to drive to the insta-care.  Or whatever they call it here.  We got right in and took an xray to discover BOTH bones in his arm were broken.  Right near the wrist.  They were so badly broken that they had to call in an orthopedic surgeon to put the bones back in place.  They gave Hilton an IV and some happy juice in that IV to make him happy so he would not remember when the doctor twisted his arm to all heck to get the bones back in place.  It worked!  He doesn't remember a thing!


He had just gotten the iv and it did not go well.  He has his mommy's veins, very wiggly and uncooperative.

 I told me to give me his scared face...  at this point he was feeling so good, he had no idea what he was in for.


This is right after the doctor had twisted his arm all up.  He had just gotten the white fluffy cotton stuff put on his arm and was saying how nice and cozy it felt...  man he was out of it!



All done!  What a trooper!  Just waiting for the cast to dry.  They did not have a lot of options for colors.  They had pink, purple, yellow and dark blue.  He said, I'm good with dark blue.

This is at home while I was helping him get his jammies on.  This thing is HUGE!  And very heavy.  He did not sleep well last night, but he is outside playing today!


Friday, November 05, 2010

Applesauce

I am up to my elbows in applesauce.  That is all I have time for right now.  No time to blog.  I have been making tons of applesauce, making tons of meals for friends who need it and for strangers who are in my ward who need it...  I have been slowing trying to transfer my clothes from summer to winter...  and I have been trying (and failing) to keep my house clean.  One of the things I do not like about the cooler weather is that the kids tend to stay inside a little more, therefore causing tons of messes.  And no matter how hard I try to train my kids to put their book sacks and jackets and shoes away as soon as they walk in the door, I fail.  They won't do it.  So what you have in this house is an overwhelmed mom whose home is a disaster and I would just like to sit down in the middle of the pile of stuff and cry.  But I have to make dinner.  I think we will have some applesauce.