Bad Things Come in Threes (I Guess!)

Today, I have a lot to blog about. They are all old news, but I have been waiting until I had all the pictures to show you. I will start with all the crazy stuff that's happened. On Tuesday, October 21st, Riley got bit by the neighbor's dog. The neighbor's twelve-year-old daughter and her friend brought him home and said their dog bit him and he had a scratch under the band aid. So, since Riley cries all the time about how Neji bites him (when Neji bites him, he doesn't leave a mark), I didn't even lift up the band aid. I told them he would be fine and not to worry. Kurtis came home about an hour later and I told him Riley got bit by a dog and I was sure he was just fine. He hugged the dog a little too tight, or something. He's not very nice to Neji, so the dog probably did this in self defense. Then Kurtis took off the band aid. He did not just have a scratch! The side of his face next to his ear was sliced open! We took him to the Wee Care Pediatrics (open 24/7) and he got 13 stitches (11 on the slice and 2 on the puncture wound) and because he had a puncture wound, he had to go on antibiotics to prevent infection as well. The doctor and his assistants were great. They treated him so kindly and he got 13 suckers at the end of his boring doctor visit (we were there 3 hours). Oh, my gosh, it was so nasty to look at. He got his stitches out a week later on the 28th.
With stitches
After stitches


The next day (October 22nd), Kurtis stood up after fixing the gap in the fence so the dogs couldn't get out and smashed his head on the metal handle of the fence door. He refused to go to the hospital to have it checked out, but it looked nasty, too. I had an audition that night, so I asked him if he still wanted me to go. He said he would be fine. He's going to have a nasty scar when he's bald. After that, everything was going fine. Riley got his stitches out, we can put all this stuff behind us, and not need to go to the doctor's office until Kaleb needs his well child visit in December. (I hate the going to the doctor, can you tell?)
Then, on October 30th, the elementary school my children attend had a Halloween costume parade. I didn't go, but Riley went to morning kindergarten instead of afternoon so he could participate (yes, all the afternoon kindergartners went to morning that day). I buckled Kaleb into his car seat and since all the car seats are jammed into the back our our Honda Civic, you have to shut the door on that side pretty hard so it will shut. That's exactly what I did. Right on my thumb! Oh, my holy heck! (Yes, I am from Utah. We say heck here instead of hell. Besides, Hell isn't very holy.) It hurt! I had shut the door on my thumb. I had to open it to get my thumb out. The thumbnail turned black. I didn't want to go to the doctor, so I waited until the next day to go. The doctor burned a hole in my fingernail and suddenly, it felt so much better. I knew my thumb wasn't broken, but we went to the hospital to get an x-ray anyway. Better safe than sorry. My doctor told me that I would have to go on antibiotics if it was broken. So, yippee. But for the day before Halloween, I was left-handed. It wasn't as hard for me as it could have been because I am kind of ambidextrous. I can use both hands pretty well, but because over the years, I have just let my right hand be dominant, it wasn't all that easy either. Pants manufacturers need to make left-handed pants. I don't know how you guys zip your pants up. And, we never really pay attention to just how much we use our thumbs. I hate not having use of it. Today, it is much better, but also, today, it feels a little bit worse than yesterday. I am in slightly more pain. Dr. Hibbard said I would probably loose my fingernail. So this is going to be interesting. I have never had this happen to me before. I did not take pictures of it, though. The blackness of my thumbnail is mostly gone, so it's not as gross looking as it was before. I just have a hole in my fingernail. Kind of cool looking, and yet it's not at the same time.

The Monday before Halloween, we did something fun, though. Instead of carving pumpkins, we made caramel apples! Oooh, so yummy and not nearly as messy as pumpkins.

On Halloween, the kids had the day off because it was the end of the semester. We spent it going to the doctor and the hospital. Since we were all there at the doctor's office and she asked me, we all got flu shots! Yay! Then, they went trick-or-treating after dinner. I stayed home and passed out candy. But the kids had loads of fun. Zach was a warlock, Riley was his voidwalker, and Kaleb was Spiderman! I need to find a picture of an actual voiwalker so you know what that is. I'll look and post it with the pictures of the kids in their costumes. So that was my boring last half of October.




That is the actual voidwalker. Well, I tried. Riley's hair gel was supposed to dye (temporarily) his hair blue (I thought that's what the ad said) and glow-in-the-dark, but all it did was glow-in-the-dark blue. And not very brightly, but that may be because I put too much in. Oh, well. Next time, we'll do better.