Busy, Busy.

The last couple of weeks have been very busy at our household, hence the long silence on my part.  Our Peanut made HIS arrival on May 27th, 2010. But I'll save all the details for another entry...just cause I can. lol.  Spencer also got hurt during that same week on Tuesday the 25th.  And let me tell you it's been a learning experience as far as helping to get the injury to heal.

Spencer was bouncing a bouncy ball in the back yard, showing one of the daycare kids, how high it went.  The 1st several times everything went well, but then some how instead of bouncing forward, it bounced back and struck Spencer full force in the eye.  He dropped like a ton of bricks, as you can imagine.  After about 20 minutes with an ice pack, looking at the eye, seeing a bit of blood on the eye ball itself, I knew that this was a little more serious. So we called the Eye Doctor, who advised us to come in right away.  After looking at the eye, come to find out, Spencer had a severe cut on the cornea of the eye, and a blood vessel had ruptured on the iris.  At 1st the doctor couldn't tell if the retina was intact, due to all of the blood, so we had got some medicated drops, and had to return 24hrs later.  We would later discover the good news that, his retina is still intact, but will have to be on guard for the next 3yrs, because a retina can still become detached after an injury like this. Poor guy.  We are still doing medicated drops, and seeing the doctor every few days to make sure that the eye is healing. The cut on the cornea is healed, but we are waiting for the blood and inflammation to go down in the eye.  His eyesight is returning to normal so hopefully things will get better.

The kids have were busy having end of the year school activities and parties to celebrate the end of the school year.  Dawn's school got to go to Valley Fair, this past week they got to go to a movie, and pretty much have an easy last 2 weeks of school. Spencer's class got to go the Diary Queen for a middle of the day treat.  Actually all the classes go in the elementary school. Doesn't your heart go out to those employees of the Diary Queen? lol.

I ended up having almost no daycare kids these last two weeks, so that was very interesting. I miss my "kids" terribly, but it was really nice spending that last week with my kids, before peanut arrived, even on the day Spencer got his injury.

I didn't even make it to my last OB appointment before Peanut arrived. lol. He actually arrived the day of my last appointment.  It was a nice long weekend for us to enjoy as a family with our new addition.  This week has been very quiet, and interesting learning how to get things done with 2 little boys in the house, and trying to get 4 kids ready at night for bed. I've been so thankfully of my MOPS moms who have brought us dinner these last couple of nights. They have been Heaven sent, knowing that I didn't need to worry about a meal for the kids at night. 

Last night we had our 1st officially event out of the house since our little guy was born. We had our annual MOPS family picnic last night.  It was great seeing some of the MOPS moms again, the kids had a blast at the park and the splash pad.  Thankfully the rain held off till we were pretty much done. Then it seems like everyone made a dash. lol. It was a great evening...