It all started yesterday afternoon in the twenty minutes between the time Josiah got home from school and the time he was supposed to go down for a nap. He was jumping around being crazy in the playroom and fell. He landed with his hand on his knight's breastplate. It cut a gash in the palm of his right hand about 1/2 inch long and between 1/8 and 1/4 inch wide. Never having had to deal with any wound that needed stitches I called Chris to come home and look at it. If it had been the same cut on his arm or leg I would have put band aids on it and kept and eye on it. But since it was on the palm of his dominant hand and I knew a band aid wasn't going to stay there and Josiah wasn't going to be careful about not using the hand, I wasn't sure about whether it needed stitches or not, but I knew it needed more than a band aid. Anyway, I called the doctors office. They said "How soon can you be here?" So, Chris came home, said "It won't need stitches.", and then took Josiah to the doctors office. Anyway, the doctor cut off the 1/2 inch piece of skin and bandaged Josiah's hand, saying that the bandage was probably overkill. (Ha! He doesn't know Josiah. This wasn't his regular doctor.) He said that Josiah could still play in his soccer game last night. So, Chris brought him home and he got a short nap before his game. After the game the bandage was coming off and was filthy from Josiah falling several times on that hand during the game.
We got home from the soccer game and Nessie was acting all weird with her tail drooping. So I let her come in so I could keep an eye on her and try to figure out what the matter was with her. After watching her I figured her tail was hurt. It seemed swollen at the base of her tail and she would not lift it. If I lifted it she yaowed at me. So, instead of going to Bible study this morning I took all three kids and the cat to the vet. (It wasn't near as bad a disaster as it could have been.) Anyway, the vet said someone had probably slammed Nessie's tail in a door. It had not broken or dislocated it. But the muscle was damaged. The vet gave her a shot and some pills to take over the next week or so to help with the swelling and inflammation. The vet thinks that Nessie will regain use of those muscles and be able to lift her tail again.
Thankfully, we had an uneventful afternoon. I was able to make the bow to match Carissa's mermaid costume for Halloween.
Then at the dinner table Chris had given the boys some pumpkin seeds to try. A minute later Caleb had his finger in his nose telling me that the sunflower was in his nose. (He thought it was a sunflower seed.) I was about to cry. I was envisioning another trip to see a doctor. But I had Caleb blow his nose and he was able to blow out the pumpkin seed. Needless to say, the boys were put to bed soon after dinner.
Josiah's prayer at the dinner table:
"Dear Lord, we bless you for this food you gave us in our hearts."
These pics and the video are from the little parade our neighborhood had tonight.
Two little pirates with their friend, Ellie, who lives around the corner.
