Things are crazy at our house. Kid activities are in full swing, Scott is still working a lot and daylight savings time has come to torture us for a week or so as well (until we adjust to the time change). Matthew just finished his school play and Anna started hers. Anna, Grant and John are all playing spring soccer, Matthew is doing scouts and a Raspberry Pi computer group (a Raspberry Jam) and Anna has activity girls weekly. I feel like we're just running around all week. Plus the weather has been nice so we've been at the park a lot when we aren't running around. We are busy. And I have no free time, so I'm behind on things I'd like to blog about. But I must mention a certain boy in our family who turned a decade old recently.
Matthew turned 10 a few weeks ago. 10!! That means Scott and I have now been parents for a decade! We didn't have a friend birthday party - Matthew said he would like to go to a trampoline place that just opened up in town to celebrate. Here is Matthew on his actual birthday (which was also Mardi Gras this year).
Just as we were getting ready to celebrate with cake and presents, John ran head first into the kitchen cabinets. He got a big gash on his forehead and Scott, who had come home earlier than usual to be there for Matthew's birthday, took John to the emergency room. It looked pretty deep. Matthew still wanted to celebrate after they left (I don't blame him) so he recorded some of the festivities for Scott and John.
Scott had just finished making his famous, delicious and much beloved blueberry topping for cheesecake. Scott also makes a great cheesecake from scratch but we let him off the hook this year since he is so busy with work lately (still doing the CFO job along with his own job). The topping is amazingly delicious and the kids always ask for it. Maybe he'll let me share the recipe.
Grant helped me set up a treasure hunt for Matthew's presents. Grant having some ownership and behind the scenes knowledge of the treasure hunt cut down significantly on the amount of bickering that often goes on during these hunts. So that's good. Thanks Grant for your help!
Matthew opening presents. He and Scott got to play the game together the next day.
Matthew's Raspberry Pi. He had been borrowing one for his group jams before this.
He was excited.
And here is our little John at the emergency room.
They gave him this stuffed animal while he waited.
Luckily he didn't need stitches (they glued it together) and the ER visit didn't take too long (2-3 hours) so all was well in the end. The other kids were very worried about him and were happy he was ok.
We weren't able to go to the trampoline place the weekend after Matthew's Bday because he had his school play that afternoon so we went the following weekend. Everyone was so excited. In the parking lot walking into the trampoline place Grant stubbed his toe really badly on the curb (he was wearing flip flops). He ripped a big chunk of skin part way off his toe...poor Grant. It was bad. So Scott took the other kids and Grant and I drove home to clean up his toe, get some Tylenol (it was that bad...there was a lot of screaming) and an ice pack. Poor Grant. Here's Grant after his toe injury. Such a bummer.
A week later (as I write this) his toe is still a little tender but getting a lot better. He wants to go to the trampoline place when he's fully recovered. Scott got some good birthday trampoline pictures with the other kids so I'll try to get a few of those. We had a few "incidents" here and there getting in the way of our birthday festivities, but we did have some fun in there too. Happy 10th Birthday Matthew!
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