a series of events

it's been a while, dear readers. perhaps because when my eyes are elsewhere the following will happen.

a series of unfortunate events...

The Date: Monday, January 26, 2009.
The Time: Morning-ish
The place: The Nursery
On the phone with AT&T, because the voice mail option on my phone mysteriously disappeared. The boys wake up from their naps mid-phone call and so while on hold I run up the stairs to get them. Awkwardly balancing the phone between my ear and shoulder I pick up both boys and head to the glider chair. Now sitting, I reach for the boppy pillow (because I just want to see how many things I can hold at one time) and I position the pillow and the boys for a nursing session. First, get Addison lying down and comfortable. Then, eyes and hands turn to get Gabriel lying down and comfortable. Glance back to Addison and panic because he's not there! [Now you say, "WHAT?!"] In the excitement of the moment he squirmed himself off the arm of the chair landing feet first, then down to his knees, at which point I caught him so that it didn't get any worse. I get him nursing right away to help calm him down, and he instantly is happy. *phew* Ok, eyes turn to Gabriel again and I got him nursing. Eyes turn back to Addison, words of love and compassion flow in abundance, hands gently touching his legs to make sure that all is okay. A deep breath brings relief. And then this sound in my ear, "Mam thanks for holding. We think we've figured out what the problem was..."

The Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009.
The Time: Morning-ish
The Place: The Living Room
In the kitchen emptying the garbage when a heart piercing cry comes from the living room. The kind of cry that will make you drop everything and run. A quick scan of the room shows Gabriel happily lying on his back playing with a toy and Addison unhappily lying on his stomach with a green lego to his left and a blue plastic stackable cup in front of him. I pick him up and embrace him. I gently bounce and do the "shh shh shh - you're ok - mama's here." He's in hysterics and I'm quickly examining him to see what's wrong. Head looks good, body and limbs look good, face looks goo... wait... no, his mouth... I see a little blood. It's his lip. His upper lip is split. Looking closer, thinking to myself - there's more blood than what would come from a lip. Hurrying to the bathroom now where Kevin is in the shower. I open the door, he can hear the baby crying. I say, "Kevin, Addison is hurt and there's some blood. I know he split his lip but I can't see if there's more." While he quickly rinses off I sit on the toilet seat and start to nurse the baby to see if he will calm down and if he's able to nurse. He does. Once Kevin finished drying off I passed him the baby so that I could wash my hands and do an intra-oral exam. My findings showed some trauma around the unerupted upper left lateral incisor. The area is bruised and was slightly cut by whatever object he fell on. At this point Addison had calmed down and was even smiling at us. I called my boss (a dentist) knowing that there was probably nothing that could be done and no reason to be seen, but just wanted to hear him say it. He did. So, some tylenol and a cold washcloth to suck on. My guess as to what happened while I was in the kitchen - he was playing and chewing on the lego and fell over.

The Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009.
The Time: Immediately following Addison's lego incident.
The place: The Living Room
After giving Addison his dose of Tylenol my mind begins thinking, "hmm what's Gabriel up to - he's been awfully quiet." (Now, just to clarify, during this process with Addison I had checked on Gabriel a few times to make sure he was happily and safely playing with his toys.) I walk into the living room quickly scanning the ground for my little boy only to find him in the corner with the PLANT! He was very contentedly sucking on a leaf, satisfying his craving for chlorophyll. I pick him up, do a quick sweep of his mouth, match the piece of leaf he was sucking on to the larger leaf still in the plant to make sure it creates a whole leaf - indicating that he didn't ingest any leaf, and then proceed to tell him for the 10,000th time that we are carnivores NOT herbivores.

so, where are they now, you're wondering? asleep in their cribs. [deep breath] it's starting to get interesting! :)

pictures

so i'm definitely overdue in updating this blog. would you please accept these pictures as a sufficient post?

the first picture turned out pretty good - i feel bad for the girls in the next two pictures. take note of the hair pulling and ear pinching. what is it that they always say? in grade school you pick on the ones you like?






best buds


a sweet boy. when i put gabriel in the swing he kept leaning forward as if he was enjoying a roller coaster ride... and then he fell asleep that way.


addison on the move.




addison opening a present from his christmas stocking.


gabriel eating a present from his christmas stocking.


so excited for their first christmas.