David: David has been extremely busy with work. He is the inventory manager at Lindsay Chevrolet and he is really enjoying it although some of the people aren't the brightest crayon in the box. That really frustrated him sometimes lol. I believe I have mentioned it before on here but David owns his own photography business. He does real estate photography. It has really picked up and he is hoping to be able to branch out and hire other people around other areas. On top of all that he is still able to find some time to be a daddy and a husband.
Me: I am busy going to the gym almost every morning. I usually don't go Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays but every other day I go. It has been a lot of fun to work out and try new classes with some great friends. Other than that I am busy being a mom of three very active children and running Kameron around to doctors (more on that in a few).
McKaila: McKaila drew an awesome stick figure person today at the daycare in the gym. Now for those of you who don't know, McKaila has some visual motor delays in which she see's things one way but when it gets transferred to the other side of the brain it gets lost. One of the ways you see it most with her is writing/drawing. Her stick people look like a circle with a bunch of lines coming out of the head. Today her stick person had no body but it only had 2 arms and 2 legs and they were in the right area's of the head :) She also can now draw the letter H. Once again writing letters is very hard for her. She still needs some behavioral therapy but we are working on that one. She likes to use baby talk and when we tell her that she needs to use her big girl words that usually corrects it and she'll talk normal.
Kameron: Where do I start with this boy. Lets start with his most recent injury. I babysit my friends little boy a few days a week and their house. We're over there all the time and Kameron was out in the garage riding bikes and playing. Nothing out of the ordinary, no cars where in there and they always ride around in the garage. My friend Erin had just left and I was up trying to get her son back to bed and I heard this loud crashing sound of metal hitting the concrete. I ran downstairs and Kameron was holding his hand with blood everywhere and crying. McKaila spots the blood and starts screaming as well. I started to panic when I saw the cut on his pinky because it seemed to need stitches and looked like he broke a finger or two. I called Erin and she found someone from church to come and sit with the kids so I could take Kameron to the ER. David was on his way but didn't have the truck because I had it. My van was in the shop so we dropped him off at work that morning. So anyways back to the ER. Kameron fell asleep on me in the waiting room because he was so exhausted from crying. We got into a room and waited for a little bit. We went to get his hand x-rayed and right away the tech showed me the broken fingers and said wow look at this. I asked him how we fix it and he chuckled and said I have no idea. We got back to our room and when the doctor finally came back in she told us Kameron would need surgery on his fingers in order to fix them. The pinky was cut bad but it was actually the ring finger we were worried about because it was so swollen they worried about blood flow. So then we had to try to find someone that would do the surgery. Where we were at the surgeon said it was too complex for him because of Kamerons age. They called a few other places and finally Childrens in DC said they would do it. We were transferred by ambulance to Childrens. Before getting in the ambulance they tried to get an oxygen reading on the ring finger and couldn't. They switched fingers and right away picked up a reading so they instantly were more concerned for that finger. They decided it would be best to turn on the lights and sirens. Kameron was in heaven. He loved every minute of that ambulance ride. He got to watch Nemo in the back and they gave him a stuffed elephant to love on.
We finally got to Childrens and were told the plastic surgeon wouldn't be here for a few hours but that he didn't think Kameron would need surgery. That it could be fixed by a splint. Around midnight Dr. Kohen came and splinted Kamerons hand. We were released to go home around 2:30 Wednesday morning. David was pretty upset that they discharged us at that time because he had to wake up the other kids to come pick us up. Kam broke his pinky in two spots and his ring finger in 2 or 3 spots I can't remember. They didn't need to stick his cut because it wasn't stitchable. It was basically too wide to stitch together. So that was wrapped in some very very expensive yellow medicated gauze. We had a check up with the surgeon again a week later and I was not happy with him at all. He didn't even look at Kamerons hand. He had the resident unwrap it and send us home. They called an hour later and said they needed us to come back to rewrap it. No thank you. It took us 2 hours of a commute each way and the doctor was rude. So we went to our local ER and had his hand wrapped again. We have another appointment with a new orthopedic surgeon on Thursday. Whew that was a long one. Oh I forgot to mention how he hurt his fingers. He was playing with the legs of a trampoline (not put together yet) that were up against the wall and he put his fingers between the bars and they fell over pulling his fingers and breaking them. Kameron turned 3 a few days later.
Jayden: Jayden is growing and learning new things all the time. He has had some horrible rashes on his bum and he's had a yeast infection. He's had lots of diarrhea which I thought was from teething but it has been going on for longer that I would have thought. So I will talk to the pediatrician tomorrow and see what he says. It could be an allergy to some new food but I can't think of what it would be that is new. He has a major blowout everytime he goes. That requires a new change of clothes and a bath. Happens about 3 times a day. I know you didn't want to know about poop updates with Jayden but that has been so time consuming with him lately.
Ok that was much longer than planned but its all for you Melissa :) Now for some pictures.
McKaila at the cherry blossom festival
Such a big boy. Notice his splint on his left hand :)
Jayden eating his marshmallow from his easter basket.
We had a visit from Flat Stanley
