Saturday, February 06, 2010

Park and Hill Rolling

A week or two after Koren’s little ”incident," we had a more successful trip to a park.  This park includes some small hills, and for those of you who may be in the dark about such things, the single purpose of HILLS is to ROLL DOWN THEM.

Well, for Kaelin, anyway.  Koren was content to WATCH from the top of the hill, and eventually scraped up enough courage to trot down one at a pace faster than walking.

But both kids had a blast on the hills and the playground, and I was just happy to come away with pictures and no trips to the emergency room.

Dad’s 65th Birthday

Toward the end of January, we celebrated my dad’s 65th Birthday.  As a tribute, I (with the help of my mom) put together a slideshow of his 65 years to run in the background at the party.  Here is that slideshow. 

Warning: It’s about a 20 minute slideshow, so grab a cup of coffee.

Happy birthday, Dad!  I hope I look that good at 65!  May this be your best year yet!

Owie at the Park

Boys.  They are infinitely more accident-prone than girls.  I’m discovering this.

We had a delightful time at the park a couple of weeks ago.  Until Koren accidentally walked backward down a step and plummeted to his doom.  Somehow, he busted his lip on the inside and the outside.  The blood was amazing.  It was everywhere, just flowing out of his mouth.

I called Jens and told him to bring the car to pick us up, and bring lots of towels and wet wipes because all I had to mop up with was tissues.

Kaelin got totally freaked out by the amount of blood and decided Koren was bleeding to death.  Therefore, the most appropriate course of action was to panic and run around screaming about the amount of blood and AAAAGH AAAGH AAAGHGH!!!

Koren cried.  But by the time Jens showed up with the car and accessories, he was TOTALLY.  OVER IT.  He was done with the crying and ready to return to the playground.  After we wiped up the blood he left on the slide, we tried to bundle him into the car and he was having NONE OF IT.

So we let him play for a little bit before I took both kids home in the stroller.  Later, we took him to the emergency room to have his mouth checked out before the weekend, and everything seemed to be fine other than the small gash on the inside of his mouth, and the cut on the outside.

It healed amazingly quickly.  After that day, it didn’t even seem to bother him.  In about 4 days, you could hardly see the wound on the inside of his mouth, which was where most of the blood had come from.

Later that day: Silliness undeterred by mouth wound.

Bethany & Josiah

In 2001, I had a joint bridal shower with one Bethany McNichols in Seattle.  We were both to be married that summer to our respective fiances, whom we met in the Theatre department of Seattle Pacific University.

We laughed, exchanged gifts, socialized, ate, and somehow ended up dressed in gowns made of wrapping paper and bows.

It was the beginning of the next stage of our lives.  But I have a feeling that at that time, if you had told us that less than 9 years from then, we would both live in Texas and be hanging out with our combined 4 kids, we probably would have laughed in disbelief.

Funny how the times change…