Friday, February 29, 2008

James' New Motorcycle.


James will no longer have to carpool to work anymore, and even better, I don't have to go and get him....He bought a 2007 Kawasaki 650KLR. He's real excited, he tries to think of any excuse to ride. And he can take it up to mountains during hunting season.

Growing Teeth and walking everywhere.




It's finally happened..last night while I was talking on the phone with Wonder Woman, Logan started walking across the room by himself without me calling for him...He's brave now and will just let go and start walking away...He loves it and you can tell he's so proud of himself...he'll walk along squealing and smiling for joy. Also, he has 3 new teeth...all new this week...I guess that explains all the fun diapers and whining and the need to snuggle ALL THE TIME.. My little man is getting so big. As for Cooper, he's having a little difficultly adjusting to his cast. He can't use his thumb at all and so that means alot of spills to clean up. Oh well, at least his hand will be better soon....2 more weeks!

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Sonics Game!

James' Aunt Freda invited us to Foresters night at the Sonic's Game. It was fun. We got free tickets, food and t-shirts. Logan and Cooper were really good. Logan of course was a big flirt with all the ladies and they all thought he was the cutest little man at the game. And of course, we had a lot of fun being loud! I would let out a good long yell and Cooper would look at me like, "who are you and where is my mom?" Once he even put his finger to his mouth and shh'd me! Finally I think he realized it was okay if mom was loud, I can be too! It was a lot of fun. At one point Cooper looked at James and yelled " We're winning!"
We only stayed until the beginning of the 3rd quarter. The boys were getting tired and I knew that they both were very over stimulated. We left before anyone felt the need to have a tyrade.

Cooper's 1st Cast, Hopefully the last!

Here's a picture of Cooper's hand on Wednesday evening. Lovely shade of black and blue don't you think?

Cooper went to the Orthopedic Dr. @ Mary Bridge, Friday. Dr. Silas determined there was a fracture at the bottom of the thumb. We lucked out and it doesn't affect the growth plate. Cooper was able to pick out the color of his cast. He chose pink, but after some encouragement he decided he liked the bright green. He was such a good boy for the technicians. The x-ray tech was impressed at how he knew how to hold his hand. He had walked right in and put his hand on the table.
The cast nurse, was really impressed too. James and I were impressed that he let her put the sock and cotton on without a fight. He was really involved and curious what she was doing.
Logan was a little concerned for brother and I should have taken a picture of his face.
What a good boy Cooper! I told the Doctor that I was grateful that she actually did something other than refer us to someone else.

Who needs expensive toys?

Thank Goodness for cheap entertainment.


Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Rock Wall Challenge

Saturday we went to the Supermall and ran into Dustin, Tia, Lexie, Cole & MacKenzie. They were at the Rock wall, so we stopped and watched the kids climb. Cole & Lexie were climbing together, then Mac went by herself. It was so cute, a big crowd of shoppers stopped to watch her and when she reached the top everyone cheered. You can only imagine seeing this 3 year old climbing the wall, with her dad holding the rope for her. Cooper really wanted to try to climb, so we gave in..and of course, if you pay for the kid, parents can climb for free. I think we just ended up paying for James. Cooper climbed a little on his own, then Uncle Dusty helped him. He gave up after awhile, but James made it to the top.



Monday, February 18, 2008

Twiddy E.R. visit #2

Just an FYI..Sunday we took a trip to urgent care, this time for Cooper. Saturday he had taken a couple of tumbles to the ground and fell out of his bed and at some point hurt his left hand. On Sunday morning it was swollen and by 11:00 am it was starting to bruise. So, we took him to the Urgent Care, instead of the E.R. (which now in hindsight probably would have been better.) The Dr. there said it was just bruised, and he couldn't see any broken bones in the X-Ray. He said that he'd have a radiologist look at it and give me a call if there was something he missed. Well, last night, after the dr. offices were closed, Urgent care called back and said that there is a possiblity that there was a fracture beneath his thumb. So today, Tuesday!, ( his hand is still black & Blue and swollen) I took him to his primary care provider and they didn't get the x-rays from urgent care and they didn't want to do anymore x-rays, and she couldn't tell if it was broken. ERRRRRRRRRRRR! So now, the doctors office is going to refer him to a specialist....is it me? or is this getting rediculous. I'll keep everyone posted....

Friday, February 15, 2008

Making Pizza!!!

Today was field trip day for Cooper. We went to the Round Table Pizza, where the kids were able to make their own pizza's.
In this picture, Cooper is Dotting the dough, this is done to make sure the dough doesn't bubble up when it's cooked.

Painting the Sauce...
Adding toppings...
And the best part, EATING!!!!
It was a really fun trip. Cooper even saved some sauce in his hair for later.
Only my kid could manage that.



Monday, February 11, 2008

1st Twiddy Trip to the E.R.

Yep, you read correctly. Last night we took Logan to the E.R. He got is fingers caught in a folding chair and we didn't want to take any chances so we went to the hospital. We were really concerned about his right index finger, it was really swollen and tender. We got to the hospital at 5:45 p.m. and left around 8:00 p.m. Of course once we got there he wasn't crying anymore. We got out the little cars and entertained the boys. Cooper was pretty well-behaved for being bored. He only rang the Triage nurse's button 3 times and kept checking on the elderly lady next to us.
Does this look like the face of an injured baby? He was content until the Dr. came in...Who turned out to be a member of the church....how's that for breaking the Sabbath. We took X-rays and everything, no broken finger. However.....



Dr. Beers put on a split...as you can see in the bottom picture. I kid you not..Logan kept in on for less than 2 minutes and somehow managed to wiggle it off. Crazy lil' turkey. I always thought that Cooper would be the first to go the E.R., maybe I should be more concerned about Logan..