Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Jack
Jack was surprised to get a new kindergarten teacher a week or so ago. Apparently the kindergarten classes at his school had 30 plus kids in them, way more then the school expected to enroll. To get the class sizes down to around 20 a 1st grade teacher was shifted down to kindergarten; Jack was one of the kids moved. His new teacher is Mrs. Perry. I got to meet her once. She seemed ok, she has lots of experience with kindergarten I have been told. Jack was a bit nervous changing classes, as expected, but he now seems fine with it. I think just having less kids in his class made it easier plus his new teacher sometimes hands out gummy bears.
Amelia
Amelia is so cute and smart. Every time she sees the letter A she thinks its her name. She'll pick capital A's out of paragraphs or in the middle of words. Each time she gets a big smile on her face and says, "That's my name!"
She can also write the letter A very well. She writes it anywhere and everywhere now. She can trace the rest of the letters in her name very well but the A she can write by herself. She is already practicing her autograph.
She can also write the letter A very well. She writes it anywhere and everywhere now. She can trace the rest of the letters in her name very well but the A she can write by herself. She is already practicing her autograph.
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Jack
Well Jack got stitches for the first time yesterday. We got a new apple corer and he decided to use it on his own. We didn't even notice because he didn't say anything. He just asked me to help him with a band aide. I turned around to see blood everywhere! He couldn't open the band aide because it was covered in blood along with the first aide kit from the car, the garage floor and all over the car. It was a lot of blood! It took me quite awhile to clean it all up.
I couldn't tell how deep his cut was but it was right across his right pointer finger's knuckle so I knew it wouldn't heal good with all the bending. We went to the same ER that we took him for his smashed finger. He was pretty upset on the way because he thought he may get stitches.
Same doctor we had from last time took a look at it. I had to look away when he pulled the skin back because it was pretty deep. The doctor wasn't sure if it went down to the knuckle but he wanted to wash it out really good. Jack's finger would have to be numbed. He cried as they stuck the needle in twice but he held still. His finger ballooned up from all the fluid. After he couldn't feel his finger he thought it was so neat; he kept pinching it or biting it.
Well He did pretty good until he saw the hook and was told he had to get stitches. He started crying pretty loud. Jack told the doctor it wasn't numb all the way. The doctor did some test pokes without Jack looking and told me Jack could feel about 2 out 5 pokes. He asked if he should give him another numbing injection. At that point though all the sterile stuff was out, Jack was being held down and for the most part he was numb so I told the doctor to do it anyway. Jack held still be he definitely didn't like it. It was the first time I had ever seen panic on his face, sheer panic from the experience.
After the stitches were in the nurse gave him a Popsicle. It took Jack only minutes to recover from it.
Now its just about healing without infection.
I couldn't tell how deep his cut was but it was right across his right pointer finger's knuckle so I knew it wouldn't heal good with all the bending. We went to the same ER that we took him for his smashed finger. He was pretty upset on the way because he thought he may get stitches.
Same doctor we had from last time took a look at it. I had to look away when he pulled the skin back because it was pretty deep. The doctor wasn't sure if it went down to the knuckle but he wanted to wash it out really good. Jack's finger would have to be numbed. He cried as they stuck the needle in twice but he held still. His finger ballooned up from all the fluid. After he couldn't feel his finger he thought it was so neat; he kept pinching it or biting it.
Well He did pretty good until he saw the hook and was told he had to get stitches. He started crying pretty loud. Jack told the doctor it wasn't numb all the way. The doctor did some test pokes without Jack looking and told me Jack could feel about 2 out 5 pokes. He asked if he should give him another numbing injection. At that point though all the sterile stuff was out, Jack was being held down and for the most part he was numb so I told the doctor to do it anyway. Jack held still be he definitely didn't like it. It was the first time I had ever seen panic on his face, sheer panic from the experience.
After the stitches were in the nurse gave him a Popsicle. It took Jack only minutes to recover from it.
Now its just about healing without infection.
Friday, September 5, 2014
School Update
Well we are two weeks into the school year. Really the kids have had 2 4-day weeks. Jack got a cold the third day of school, which has been passed around including Dada. Jack also today didn't want to go to school. Oh the battle starts already! I know he was just tired and not feeling well but it is in times like these you must do a gut check and power through! I hope to brainwash him as a child not to give up on your daily activities and jobs just because you don't feel like. He may be fighting that fight his whole life.
PS- Jack came home from school happy. He had made pyramid today out of spaghetti noodles and mini marshmallows. It was pretty impressive, he was pretty proud of himself for constructing it.
PS- Jack came home from school happy. He had made pyramid today out of spaghetti noodles and mini marshmallows. It was pretty impressive, he was pretty proud of himself for constructing it.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Amelia
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