Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The Button Incident





Hi All,
We had quite a fun evening at The Emory ER last night. Apparently McKenna stuck a button up her nose about 3pm - trying to hide it from Aidan - and the adventure began. After several attempts at blowing it out, there was no button. So Rich packed up the kids and after Aidan's karate class, they went to an Urgent Care which was on the second floor of a shopping center. But, when Rich went in, the Dr. wouldn't even look at McKenna. So Rich was pretty upset and they left. On the way down the stairs, Aidan fell about six steps on his face. His tooth went through his lip and that's when I showed up. I saw Rich carrying Aidan back up to the Urgent Care - and they wouldn't even look at him!!! So really mad, we left and went to Children's ER at Emory which was probably a good thing. After the ER long wait, they couldn't find the button in McKenna's nose, but Aidan had to get three stitches! Here are a few pictures to share and smile at now, since everyone is OK.

And today, Rich went out to the Jeep to search and did find a brown button that fits the description right next to McKenna's car seat...HHHMMMMMMMM. We are hoping that is it! And of course the Tooth Fairy had to make an appearance last night, as well. Was a very exciting day!

UPDATE: Rich took the button to school to ask McKenna if it was the button that was in her nose. She said "yes!" and he gave her one last chance to confess that maybe the button wasn't ever in her nose. But, she stuck to her story. He asked her when she thinks the button might have fallen out, and she said this...."Daddy, I think it fell out when you hit the curve with your truck!" So, apparently it flew out...no, I'm thinking it didn't. She did fall asleep in the car from the house to Karate, so maybe when she relaxed while sleeping it came out somehow. That's the only conclusion we have. We will never really know...

Monday, October 13, 2008

Halloween



I have to admit I have never decorated for Halloween and have turned my light off in the past to ward off Trick or Treaters, but now with Aidan and McKenna around, I'm inspired to decorate. Here is the first addition to our decorating...we are very proud of her!! Will send update pix as we finish the yard for the season...so far it's been so much fun. And Aidan keeps looking at the witch and saying "That's so crazy!!"

St. Louis or Bust!














Hi Everyone,


Last weekend Rich and I flew to Buffalo, NY and drove my Mom to St. Louis where she will be spending the next year or two helping Giftbats get up and running. She's back into the baseball bat business and is very happy. She moved to a little down outside St. Louis called Defiance - very much like the terrain in Western NY. Funny how we drove 17 hours, got out of the car and not much changed! We had two vehicles, a horse trailer and two dogs. And glad we all made it safely. Here are some pix of us on the trip and her quaint new home! Also, we don't know how Duke could curl up into such a small ball in the backseat and woke up to check things out every couple hours to then circle and sleep again.