war wounds

Good News: Luke is walking!
Bad News: Not well enough

With the humongous difference in personality between my two kids, I never thought that Lucas would need to get stitched up before Taylie. I am shocked that Taylie is not known by name in the E.R. with what an accident magnet she is...anyway. Lucas got up and was toddling along and he tripped, smacked his chin on a bar stool which lead to him biting a rather impressive gash into his lower lip. I wiped away the blood and expected it to stop, so when it kept gushing, I was a tad concerned. Of course it happened at 4:58pm so the doctor is gone and the after hours clinic doesn't see patients till after 6pm, and on this particular night they were booked till 7:10pm. Right at bedtime. *sigh* So my sweet brother drove Lucas and me to the ER to get his lip stitched up, without being numbed. It would have been 2 extra pokes plus the burn of the medicine, then we would have got to hold him down again for one stitch. I was told it would be less painful/traumatic that way. The poor boy was a trooper!

This is him that night after we got home:

This is as close as I could get with a wiggly baby and it is blurry...sorry.

The aftermath. Mine and Luke's clothes with blood all over them.

we were both in white of course! :(
...and this is him the next morning.
Happy as can be, fat lip and all. If you can enlarge this, it give a better look at the lip.

give a baby a sucker and this is what you get...

He bounced around like this for the rest of the night. Funny seeing as how it was sugar free...at least that is what Grandpa TOLD me. Hmmm?

Halloween 2009

First off, I promise that with the coming of winter will come more fully dressed children. Halloween was so much more fun this year now that Taylie can enjoy it! Luke is kind of a grumpy gus most of the time so he grumped the whole time he had to be in costume. This is pumpkin decorating Schlenker style:

Taylie said that the little pumpkin she made for Lucas.
She was extremely proud of her creations.

Here come many pictures of kids in costumes:

Lucas the Lion!

and Taylie the Tiger!
She told people that she was Sher-kan from the Jungle Book, and then growled at them.

Taylie is so cute with Luke. He was grumpy from being in his costumer and so she was making him feel better.

this is pumpkin carving Brooks' style, or old school I guess!

We had so much fun this year. Jacob and I enjoyed that my Mom wanted to take the kids trick-or-treating around her neighborhood and so we got 45 minutes of kid free quiet. Taylie loved it this year because Grandma S. gave her a bag and made sure that it was 3/4 of the way full before she brought her back. Needless to say, both kids were bouncing off the wall because they were so loaded with sugar! refer to the video of Lucas with a sucker...

:)

I don't care what anybody says....

nagging works.