Soccer Game - March 31, 2012

Goalie

French Braiding

I was braiding Stephanie's hair tonight because she "wants to have curls in the morning." I told her I needed to learn how to French braid again. So she said, " Maybe when you need a French, they can teach you."

Artwork

Turkey

Valentine's Card

Emergency Room Visit

Yesterday was Tuesday, December 13th, 2011. I painted a wall in our hallway. Then John and Hayden drove to Omaha and I was watching the store. About 4:30 a lady came in to look at futon covers and buy a futon. A little before 5, Stephanie comes downstairs screaming bloody murder. Her hand was covered in blood. She had cut her thumb with a knife. She said she tripped in the kitchen and fell on a knife that was on the floor. (just to let you know ~ there was no knife on the floor or on the counter when I went downstairs.)

Anyway, I took her into the bathroom and tried to wash her hand and stop the bleeding and it just wasn't working. What I could see of the cut (before the blood covered it again), it looked pretty deep. The customer actually came up to me then and said she would come back another day to make her purchase. So I called Paula who was out shopping and told her to get back home to watch Meredith and Philip, I closed the store, and drove Steffi to the emergency room.

We got there at 5 and we didn't have to wait at all. They ushered us into the triage room, then to a patient room. All in all, we were there about an hour and a half. She got 6 stitches. And a giant bandage on her left thumb. Poor little sweetheart!

I never did really find out what happened but she was with Phil in the kitchen when it happened so God only knows what really went on. She tried to wash her thumb off herself upstairs and only came down when she couldn't take care of it herself.

At 11:30, she was crying in bed because the anesthesia wore off and her thumb hurt. I had to force her to drink the children's Tylenol and she fell right back to sleep.

This morning she didn't want to go to school. I kept her home because I knew she would be in a lot of pain today and I was afraid she would hurt herself worse at school. Actually, we didn't stay home, Grandma took us out to Cracker Barrel and then we went to WalMart, Menard's, and a couple other quick places. (We bought Children's Chewable Tylenol at WalMart and she seems to like that better.

So ~ for anybody keeping track...this would be the 3rd emergency room visit this year for our family. Twice for Stephanie and once for me. Stephanie has only been to the E Room twice in her life. It would have been 3 but when she fell down the steps at my Grandma's house, she recovered faster than I did.

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Oh, when we left the E Room last night, I decided to get Burger King for the kids since it was late and I didn't feel like cooking. Stephanie said she'd rather have King Kong Burger. I advised her I wasn't going to drive all the way out of the way for King Kong Burger then. She said, "But I was in the hospital! and I've only been to King Kong Burger once in my entire life!"

Quotes

Changing out the quotes on the sidebar today.

The last ones I picked for Steffi were:

"When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them." - Karen E. Quinones Miller

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed but self-indulgent would not be called determined. Determination implies your willfulness is balance by discipline." - Paul Graham

The Children's Museum

Steffi has been upset for awhile now. The older kids get to go to birthday parties and play dates and even sleepovers and she doesn't get invited anywhere!!!!

So when both Hayden and Meredith got invited to the same party, I decided to take Stephanie and Philip somewhere too.

Then, Meredith got sick and couldn't go to the party and Steffi decided she wanted to go to the Children's Museum but it closed in less than an hour so we had to wait until the next day. She was not pleased.

Then, that day, Meredith told her how much she wished she could go to the museum too and Steffi asked me if everybody could go so they wouldn't be sad. And, at first I thought that was an ok idea. But ~ then Stephanie still would not get to do anything special herself so I ended up leaving the other three kids home with John and just taking Stephanie.

She had a great time!

She loved having Mommy all to herself.

Mommy thought is was pretty nice too!

She got to do what SHE wanted.

I hope it was just what she needed.

Scarred for Life

Philip slammed Stephanie into a wall this weekend. She has a scrape on her cheek and on that little ear flap thingie.

Today she didn't want to go to school. She didn't want to go with a scar on her face!

I took her anyway, of course, but I did walk her in and told the teacher what happened and why she didn't want to be there.

Coincidentally, the teacher had a scar on her arm that she got this weekend also. Stephanie felt better after she showed her that.