I may come out of hiding

I realized this morning I have done one post since the end of April.  That was Andrew's broken collar bone, which is healed and left him with a nice size bone mass in his shoulder.  I haven't completely been hiding but can't make myself sit down long enough to write.  I am hoping this will change.

The summer has been a whirlwind.  I'll recap now and then hope to get better stories up later.  In May we said good-bye for the summer to MOPS, AWANA, and our small group bible study.  Our summer, though not planned to be, has been busy. 

The beginning of June we drove to Baton Rouge to see my family that I have not seen in years, some of them almost 20!  We ended June with Kathryn's Strawberry Shortcake 4th Birthday Party.

So far July has been just as busy.  Fireworks after a baseball game on July 3rd.  Our church's July 4th celebration.  Sending Kathryn to Grandma's & Grandpa's for an entire week! 

Plus all the daily goofyness of two kiddos and a very hyper dog has kept me on my toes.  Literally.  I think there have been days I haven't sat for more than 10 minutes at a time before they've finally passed out for the night.

Here's hoping to establishing a daily/weekly routine and getting back to being on here.  Fingers crossed!

Broken bone

I don't know how it happened.  I left the room for a minute on my way to the potty, and before I got there I heard an I'm-in-pain scream from Andrew.  I ran back to see him standing next to our end table.  Screaming.  I held him trying to get him to calm down.  I asked him where it hurt.  He grabbed his right shoulder area.  I could tell he needed I diaper change so I picked him up and carried him to his room.  I changed his diaper and took his shirt off.  That's when I knew something was terribly wrong.

I told Kathryn to get dressed, Andrew to lie still & I quickly put my shoes on.  I'm usually not dressed by that point of the morning, but looking back I know it was God who told me to go ahead & get dressed before I started cleaning.  I really don't think 5 minutes passed before we were in the car.

I am truly thankful our hospital has a children's ER.  From walking in the door until we were in a room was 15 minutes.  The paramedic took his vitals.  I think we waited 15 or 20 minutes before the doctor came in.  Andrew was holding on to me with one arm and protecting his shoulder with the other.  The doctor barely touched the shoulder and said, yes, he's broken his collar bone.  He ordered Motrin & x-rays.

Andrew did not like moving his arm out of the way for the x-rays.  They took four and he cried, "Pick me up!  Pick me up!" the entire time.  The motrin calmed him & he napped for a little bit.

The doctor came back about 30 minutes later and said it was indeed broken & we needed to go to an orthopeditic in a couple of days (Friday is the earliest they can get us in).  The nurses came back with discharge papers and a sling.  I forgot to day that I took him in just his diaper.  I didn't try to put a shirt on him before we left.  At this point he needed a shirt on, which I remembered to grab as we ran out the door.   He screamed but the nurse showed me how to get it on with the least amount of movement.

He napped for a lot of the afternoon.  Today, except for not using his arm much, he is acting normal.  We got a train table from friends yesterday afternoon.  That's where he has been for most of the day.

Praying for good news Friday & he continues to be in good spirits.

a new blog

In case anyone really cares, I've started a new blog where I'll show you what I've been up to crafting wise.  Nothing fancy.  And you probably won't even get instructions on how I did it.  I don't give instructions well.  But if I found the instructions on another website, I'll provide that link.

If you want to check it out, it is at waughmama.blogspot.com .



I'll get back to posting here soon.  I hope :)

Happy Easter!

I know, I know... I am so far behind on posting.  I'll play catch up later, but for now I thought I would share a picture from this past weekend.  I hope you had a joyous Easter!

Andrew's 2!

Andrew at 2 is 29 pounds & 35-3/4".  I think he is closer to 36", but we'll go with what the doctor said.  For comparison, Kathryn was 27 pounds & 35".

We celebrated at the Great Wolf Lodge with the Waugh side of the family.  We then had cake & balloons in Georgia with the Payne side.  No big party, just celebrations.  We may even have another one Saturday night with us.  Still haven't given him the present from us.

Happy Birthday to my little cuddle bug!

I cannot tell you how much this is him.  The only thing wrong with it is that you can see his eyes from under the hat.

Oh, my little stinkers.  Gotta love them!!

I was given a pattern.

Thank you Twin for providing a link to a pattern.  The little girl likes this one better! 

I will tell you my goof for this project.  I had the blue towel & blue binding already.  I bought another purple towel in case little girl wanted one just like her brother's, which she did.  On a hurried trip through the craft store I just grabbed another package of pink binding.  It wasn't until I got home that I realized I bought single fold binding.  Not wanting to go back to the store this week, I just pulled some random pink fabric out of the drawer & made my own binding.  It isn't even & the more I think about it, I'm not sure it had been washed first.  But I got a "Mommy, it is beautiful!" so I won't tell if you don't.

I tried, but I really need a pattern

We are going to an indoor water park in a few weeks.  I wanted to make the kids hooded towel wraps but could not find a tutorial on how to do one.  So I made it up as I went.

I have made the kids hooded towels before.  I wanted something similar but with arm holes and not so full.

At least these were cheap.  A thin towel from Walmart and some binding.

I've only made Kathryn's right now.  Hopefully the other one comes out better.  It does look better (not so right) with the hood down.