Amelia for President

I'd like to take this opportunity to ask you to vote for Amelia for president. She clearly has a lot to offer including a desire to improve our society starting with your bad driving habits. That's right, as president, she will work to make sure everyone stops behind the stop sign.

"If I were president I would make sure people stop behind the stop sign."

Note: As president she will be able to spot the rule breakers with her superhuman eyes with giant EYELASHES.

Science Center

The Science Center is awsome! When you enter you are in the planatureyum. If you want to get to the Science Center you will have to go thru a skyway. There are bnokelers (binoculars) and speed theroters (thermometers, more commonly known as spedometers). When you reach the Science Center you will go down a hallway. At the end of the hall there is a miny exsevator (mini excavator) and it scoops out beads. And my favrite part is the Robotic dinosurs! Next to that is a tunnal and you have to find stuff. When you come out you are in a volcano room. And when you eat lunch there you can watch a ball mashen (machine) and kids oprate (operate) it! The Science Center is the best placein the unavars.

Blue Humpback

I find things. I don't know where they come from always. But, here is an interpretation of a blue humpback whale. Maybe someday I will write an ABC book of all the pictures I find....

Happy Girl

This is the only kid of the three that will look at the camera and smile. She smiles with a big, cheesy grin

ER Visit

We made our first ever visit to the ER with our children on Sunday evening.

I was cleaning up in the kitchen while John and Gemma played in the next room. William and Amelia were playing in their room. All of a sudden, Gemma started crying - the cry that makes a mama's skin crawl. The crying didn't stop and she came around the corner to find me. She was holding her arm and continued to cry. Any attempts to move her arm were met with more crying.

Gemma (so far) is not a crier. She regularly slides head first off of couches into coffee tables. She either shakes it off and keeps playing or need a 15 second cuddle on my lap before continuing on her way.

She sat on my lap for a long time and did not want to get up.
She continued to hold her arm and cry (although the volume decreased).
Any bump or movement of the arm brought the crying back up.

So, off to the ER we went. I will say it was no picnic getting her into her car seat without hurting her further.

The official ruling: Nursemaid's elbow (or sort of pulled the elbow ligaments out of joint. Kind of). The dr popped everything back into place on the second attempt. Other than the manipulating of her arm, she was very quiet and cooperative.

We got home way past her bed time, but she went right to be and slept until morning. Today she is using her hand/arm totally normally.

Several points:

1. To ensure nothing else was wrong after the elbow was back in place, Gemma had to use her arm. But, she didn't want to because she knew it was hurting her. She was offered stickers, books and finally a popsicle in order to get her to move her arm. Gemma was very creative in using her other arm and mouth in order to get what she wanted. She had both the dr and nurses laughing at her creativity.

2. When we arrived, there were cartoons playing on the TV in the patient room. I thought that was nice that they were thoughtful enough to turn on cartoons for our kiddo. About a half hour later, I realized the cartoon was Family Guy (a totally inappropriate selection for anyone under the age of 25 years.)

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Tooth #6

William lost tooth #6 this Saturday 11/16. He was collecting food for a Boy Scout food drive and horsing around with another boy when the tooth went missing....never to be seen again.

Another reason we are parents of the year: The tooth fairy has not visited yet for this tooth. William hasn't even asked about it. We are such winners!

Gemma snores

Gemma loves to pretend she is sleeping! Here she is trying to copy John's snoring. You can also see who is the boss at our house. The person who doesn't know very many words really runs this show!