An Evening in the Urgent Care, and a date
January 25th, 2008 by Jenni
Last night we, Aidan and I, spent the evening in the Urgent Care. Aidan was running to help mom set the table and slipped and fell and hit his cheek on the piano bench leg and split his cheek open. From the pictures it’s hard to tell because some of his owie was sealed up but it was about a half in cut and went up almost in the middle about a quarter inch. Not too terribly bad but bad enough that the nurse said we better take him in to have him checked out. They cleaned him up fairly easily and stitched him with glue (this I was very thankful for!) They said it would leave a bit of a scar because it didn’t seal up evenly but I’m thinking a little scar is better than the emotional scar he would have from getting stitches!
After our little escapade at the Urgent Care, we went on little date to his favorite (my least favorite!) restaurant, McDonald’s. We missed out on dinner since the fall happened right before dinner.
It was nice to spend some time alone with my little boy. He sure is growing up so fast. On our way home I told him, “Aidan, I love you.” And I had to say it twice because he couldn’t hear me in the back seat. Then shortly after that he said, “I love you too mom.” For some reason I didn’t respond (there could be many reasons but I will pick the reason that I was driving:) So he said, “Mommy, I love you too.” Oh sweet boy, thank you for your love. “He said, “we haven’t said that to each other for a couple days.” Hmmm, these times are absolutely necessary aren’t they, we all need time to spend together to remember how much we love one another. That is one of my goals lately, striving to have individual time for each of the kids. Today I read a book to Guenna and made the boys sit on the floor even though they desperately wanted to cram their little bodies onto the chair I was sitting on with Guenna. I thank the Lord my little boy was okay and that we got a date (an expensive date) out of the deal. Thank you Lord for each of the children you have blessed us with, they are priceless.
It’s been cold around here the past few days so we bundled up today and went outside to go “ice skating” on the mud puddles. What fun the kids had! Of course there was plenty of crying as well because certain little girls wouldn’t keep their gloves on and their little fingers were like icicles and for some reason that creates “owies” but it was still fun :)
NOTE: I’ve collected 6 eggs in two days! 3 large eggs and 3 banty eggs, we are pretty excited around here! I wont have to buy eggs any more :) And they are so yummy!
Not too bad!! I’m glad he didn’t have to get stitches! I can remember you kids “ice skating” on the mud puddles,l but you had the most fun when Grandpa’s little pond up front froze over!! Bye the way, where are Aidan’s boots? His “I love you, too, Mommie,” brought tears to my eyes!! Especially when he said, “we haven’t said that to each other for a few days!” What a reminder that we need to say that often to the ones we love!!
Hey! Did Aidan take the picture of you, with your long, lucious hair, at McDonalds?! That was a good picture! At first I imagined it was Chris, but it couldn’t be, since you were on a date with you 2nd biggest boy. Well, the cuteness rages on! I’m really glad everything turned out o.k. that night. Love you guys!
Mom, I was thinking of those days with our waffle-stompers, skating on Grandpa’s pond. It was especially good when we had a lot of rain so there was a nice big flat area to skate on. :) His boots, one is missing, I think it is probably under my bed!
Tam, yes that was Aidan taking the picture, doesn’t he do a good job centering the picture? He also took that picture of his food, must be from seeing me take pictures of our food all the time :) I should put it on my homemaking blog! I know, my hair is out of control, I haven’t had it cut since shortly after Cait was born. :)
I’m so glad to hear that Aidan is ok and that he didn’t have to have stitches. I can totally relate to you in that it is so important to have some alone time with each child. This doesn’t happen on a daily basis, but I make sure it does on a weekly basis. I think that the older they get the more important that talking time is, to both them and Mom. Some of my best talks with my children are at night when the house is quiet.
I’m envious that you are able to have fresh eggs every day. Sometimes I wish that we lived out in the country where we could have our own cow and chickens for fresh milk, eggs and meat.
I know I don’t comment often but I check up on your blog daily. You are an amazing Momma!
Love in Christ,
Sue
I had a similar date like that with Judah on New Years Eve. Fun…sorta?! I love 1-on-1 time with my kiddos and value it.
Oh, I am so sorry, but grateful that he is okay and doing well. We often see those same sort of incidents around these parts…
Better urgent care then the ER! Maybe you should invest in some super glue…then you can fix it yourself. I think Elizabeth and Aiden are similar…She to would be traumatized by stitches. She just had a filling at the dentist and Cried during the procedure. Afterwards she told me it hurt a little bit. I wanted to ask her why she cried like it hurt a lot, but I didn’t. Silly girl. Scars are manly right?