Well, we had an unfortunate first in our family. Aiden was trying to read to Emery, who was strapped into his rocker on the dining room table, and somehow managed to knock him off the table and half way out of the rocker. Here's a picture in the ER while waiting to get the CT scans back.
CT Scan results - 2 skull fractures and most likely no bleeding.
Here we are after being admitted to the hospital. Luckily, Emery had a smile on his face nearly the entire time. Mom did not as she was having to deal with several hospital works who thought that she caused this accident. Still waiting on the CPS report, but was sent home after 1 day of observation with the doctors confirming that they believe this was just a REALY bad accident.
At home, and ready to play football, well...perhaps not tackle football. No more CT scans needed, we just need to monitor his head circumference at our normal Well Child Exams. We are VERY lucky, that nothing too bad happened. This was our first trip to the ER, but certainly not the last with 3 little boys. Hopefully, this will be the worst visit we will have to endure!
Today, we explored the Children's Museum in St. Paul with Big Joe and Kate. There were so many things for us to do and touch! We stayed plenty warm while putting together these snowman!
This machine was awesome. You never knew which path the balls would take to get to the bottom, so it was fun to watch and try to figure out where it was going next!
Look at me, I am going to be a very hard worker someday!
Any water we could play in was fun and messy! It even took some adult thinking to figure out how to get the ping pong balls through these hydraulic mazes.
Of course, we both had to check out the microscope.
They even had a playground area for kids our age. Obviously, I loved the slide and being able to go down head first!
This area talked about where different animals live. Kate was super nice and lifted me up so I could see the turtle. And, once again, Aiden found some water to put his hands in!
Turtle Aiden!
Some might ask, "What about Emery?" Don't worry, he had a great time as well!
Aiden had a great time rolling around and falling out of this air cylinder!
After the lunch, we headed back to Rochester to our hotel for some swim time.
Well, and some jump time!
We were all tuckered out after dinner, so we played with this playdough from the Hersey's What a great trip; we don't want to go home tomorrow!
Today was such a busy day, that this is the only photo we had time to take! We started off having brunch with the Hersey's and playing with Bitsy and David. We made a quick trip to Ikea, as if we didn't already have enough stuff crammed into the van, to pick up another 6'x6' bookcase for all of our toys downstairs. This picture was taken at Laura's house. We hung out with her and ate some YUMMY pizza. As you can see, we are still just thrilled to be on vacation!
We got to our hotel today with the swimming pool. We decided to try it out, but as you can see, Emery wasn't a fan. The water was a little chilly for him!
We decided to try out the big pool since I had a swim vest. It WORKED awesome. I was able to go anywhere I wanted, all on my own.
Emery was much happier once Daddy took him back up to the room and changed him back into his clothes!
Daddy and I helped Parker work on some of the things I learned in swim lessons.
After swimming, we went to the Welch's house and played until bedtime. We had a great time and it certainly wore us out. This is the closest we've ever slept to each other!
We had a holiday sing-a-long at preschool today and Mommy and Daddy came to watch.
It was really fun. We sang Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. I made sure that my teacher said, "Yippy" with me in this song.
We did a finger play called Way Up High in the Christmas Tree and sang Jingle Bells.
We also did a finger play called 9 Little Reindeer and finished by singing We Wish You A Merry Christmas. I really wanted to do sing more than just the chorus.
I really like taking naps on my bobby in the middle of the living room. Aiden and Parker seem to think that I need my toys next to me, even when I am sleeping!
