January 2013

Miss Kim's Nutcracker

 

Miss Kim has a Nutcracker performance for the parents every Christmas. This year she had to reschedule it to January due to her whole family getting the flu. Sarah spent most of the performance in mine or Gramma's lap. I'm not sure what was going on with her. She did let me get a picture of her with one of the "princesses".

Monster Jam

 

Kevin took the boys to the Monster Jam again this year. They got to spend some time in the "Pit" checking out all the Monster Trucks before the show.

Adam's Tragedy

 During the winter break from travel soccer, Jackson wanted to play a little indoor soccer. We all went to watch him one Sunday afternoon at the Mebane Recreation Center gym. There is a playground right outside the gym. The kids wanted to play. I said it was getting dark and Kevin said, "Why not. They can play for a few minutes." And a few minutes was all it took. The three of them along with their two buddies, Will and Matthew, were climbing and sliding. Then we heard it. The screaming. Adam had somehow slipped at the top of slide and hit his mouth on the metal platform. Blood everywhere- Ugh! Now what to do- emergency room? wait until morning? My friend, Suzy, went back in to see if she could find a doctor or dentist. She found a fireman. He said his daughter had done something similar and it would be OK to wait until the morning. I didn't feel like spending hours in the ER anyway.

 

We were sent to a pediatric dentist in High Point. They were phenomenal and Adam was a trooper. Unfortunately it was recommended that they pull two teeth.We had to back the next day for that. Here is Adam's last picture with his two front teeth

 

And the after picture. No more front teeth. I thought they were pulling one of his front teeth and the one beside that one, so when he came out of the dentist office with no front teeth I was a bit shocked! Oh, well, he will just be a snaggle tooth a bit longer than usual.

Ivey's 2nd Birthday

 

Boy Stuff

I'm not sure who likes these Monster Jam nights more- the boys, Kevin, or me. After about five hours of girl only time (and such a quiet house), the boys came home to tell me all about Monster Jam. As excited as Adam and Jackson were you would have never known it was after 11:00.

Adam: "Jackson was talking to me to see if I could hear him. I could and I could hear the monster trucks too. Those earphones didn't work good."
Me: Hmm.... So much for saving their hearing.

This would be Grave Digger- one of the few Monster Trucks I can name and only because it's their favorite one and we saw it this summer.

This was one of the crusher cars (according to Jackson- who should probably be writing this entry for me- I'm gonna work on that!) that the Monster Trucks run over. Adam is just looking thrilled isn't he? They are in the pit before the show where you get to see the trucks up close and personal. Kevin said it was so crowded you could hardly move so they went to their seats.