Smarty Pants....

She must get it from me.

He's killing me off slowly.

Chase that is. I swear this boy will put me in the nut house before he is five. Saturday I was in my room getting dressed. Brinley had had a sleep over with her cousin Livvy at our house and all the kids were upstairs playing in the hall. I guess Brinley was trying to get into the room with Jentry and Jentry was trying to shut the door. Chase had has little pinkie finger in the hinge side of the door and Jentry shut the door all the way and smashed it. I hear Chase SCREAMING and Jentry yell "MOM, I shut Chases finger in the door... MOOOOOOOOOOOOOM HES BLEEEEEEDING!!!" I fling the door open to find blood gushing from his finger. All I could think about is Bethany (scotts little sister) got her finger chopped off in a door when she was 1. Scott is freaking out. Im freaking out. We grab him and take him into the bathroom and Im trying to run his finger under water to see what kind of damage we have but every time I take it out of the water it just fills with blood and I cant really see how bad it is. I could tell that his finger nail was just hanging there and that his finger was all attached but thats about all. Scott calls his mom to come watch the kids, I call Bethany and say "Can you come watch my kids!?" I didnt tell her why cause if I would have talked anymore I think I would have started bawling. She says yes and I hang up.

Chase screamed all the way to the hospital. Poor thing. He didnt want me anywhere near his finger. We get there and go into the triage nurse. He wanted nothing to do with her either. He didnt want her to touch him anywhere. She tried to put the little heart thing on his toe and he was flipping. He kept saying "NOT LIKE THAT!!!" Finally we got all that done and Scott said "Was that fun" and Chase said "YEAH!!!"

They took him back and looked at his finger. The doc decided to give him Katamine (I dont know how to spell it) but it puts them to sleep for about 20 minutes so that he could stitch him up. When they gave him the shot in his leg he flipped. It must have really hurt!! After a minute or two he was starring off into space and finally shut his eyes and went to sleep


The doctor took off his whole nail and stitched up his finger with 4 stitches. The doctor had said that the nice thing about this medicine is that they have amnesia and cant really remember about an hour before. And that they cant feel the pain at all. I dont know if I believe that, because when the doctor would touch his finger he would grunt and when he woke up he remembered everything we had seen before. (the fish, helicopter and me telling him the sharps container was ku-ku)

They bandaged him up and sent us home.



He did good with the bandage the whole day...but when I went in his room the next morning he had it taken off. And putting another one on was a nightmare! Then I went to get him dressed and THAT one came off! So we have been using bandaids and he leaves those alone. But changing them is also a nightmare. He doesnt like anyone by his finger. He uses his hand just fine but if anyone else touches it he screams.

Jentry had a hard time getting over it and I think she is more scarred about it then he is. I think they will think twice about shutting doors now.

(sorry, most of these pics are from my phone)

Buying Stock...

In this time of recession, Im going to buy my stock in Magic Erasers. I cannot get through the day without using this thing at least 3 times. Chase colors on EVERYTHING. He can find a crayon, marker, pencil, pen ANYWHERE! It doesnt matter how hard I try to keep them away. And heaven knows...he shouldnt be playing with crayons.

http://whatblog2.blogspot.com/2008/06/this-kid-will-be-death-of-me_21.html

Magic Erasers really are magic. I dont know what is in them...dont even know if I want to know what is in them. But I can scrub and scrub and scrub and not be able to get crayon off the wall. Use one of these babies...and I barely even have to touch it and its gone. MAGIC!

Happy Birthday Boo!

Brinley turned seven today. I can hardley believe it! Time with these kids just flys by. I was telling Scott the other night..I remember when they were baby babies...and then right now. Where did all the time in the middle go?!

She has been looking forward to her birthday for a long time. As all kids do!


We woke her up at around six and gave her her two presents. One was clothes, BORING and then another was a rainbow light. I thought she would be disappointed but she wasnt. I said, do you want to crawl in bed with me for a little while and when she walked out into the hall there was her bike!! Her last bike was a hand me down from Jentry and its on its last leg so she was SUPER excited to see a new bike!



She got special treatment at school and at home! She didnt have to write her spelling words 10 times and didnt have to do chores and got to play at a friends house.




Later that day my parents came and took us to dinner at Chuck a Rama with my grandparents and Kym, Cory and Shaylee (my sister and her family). She had a great day!!!

Brinley has been my sweetest child...but she has also been the one to push every button I have. I didnt know if we would make it through her 3's. She pushed her limits every day. But then she would come up to you and say the sweetest thing...it was her saving grace. Otherwise...I dont know what would have happened to us. ;-) I remember bringing her home from the hospital and looking at her while I was holding her and thinking, "I could have 10 more of you! You are so sweet." And I thought that for the first few...lets see..months? Then the true Brinley came out.

She is a homebody. She would rather be at home then anywhere else. Which is totally oposite of Jentry. She could care less if she ever left the house or slept over at anyones house.

She plays really well with Ty and Chase. And loves to play pretend with them.

From the day we brought her home from the hospital Scott has called her Boo.

So Happy Birthday My Boo!!! I love you!

Toothless Wonder...

Brinley lost her fourth tooth last night while eating a carrot. She didnt swallow this one like she did with the last one that she lost while eating. I think its so cute when kids lose their 2 top teeth. But hate when they get their permanent teeth. Why is it that baby teeth are so cute and so strait and then they get their adult teeth and they come in all funny looking? I think its so we can just have one more bill to add to the pile.




Anyway, the toothfairy came and brought her a gold dollar. She couldnt be more excited. For some reason she thinks she is going to use that gold dollar as bait to catch a lepracaun. She ran in from school today and went up stairs and made a trap. She is convinced Mr. Leprocaun is coming and she is going to take him to his pot of gold that will fill our house with gold. Good luck Brinley!

Yee-haw

These boys are crazy. They dont let you get anything done without being right under your feet...or in this case...on your back. Scott was fixing my linoleum that is curling by the dishwasher, until we get rich enough to get a new floor (never). The boys just hopped right on his back.

Me, I just smile and take a picture... Now dad sees how it is to try and get anything done around here with these two little hoodlums.