Stitches

This weekend was one for the books - thought I better write about it, so Hudson knows the details of his first ER trip.

My heart is just now slowing down and its been 3 days - ha! On Saturday morning, I loaded the boys up in the double stroller and headed to the park, Bryan was golfing so it was some nice Mom/Hudson/Carson time! I thought, what better than the park! We had been there about an hour and the three of us were making sand castles. Curious Carson got his typical naughty grin on his face and started to stomp on Hudson's castle - you can imagine that didn't end well. I told Carson I would take him to play on the frog. Welllllll, Hudson decided he wanted to play on the frog (go figure!), so he started to race over to it before Carson could get there. As he was running, I told him to slow down and let his brother play on it first. Guess what!? He didn't listen...he's a boy...at a park, there was no stopping him. That is until he tripped! Tripped, flew forward, hit his forehead on the frog, screamed a scream I had never heard before and then the blood...ughhh the blood! So awful. When he turned around, his face was covered - I took his shirt off and tied it around his head to help with the bleeding - the gash in his forehead was, well, unpleasant. I called my own momma, because I knew Bryan probably had his phone on silent golfing. She came straight there - we loaded up in the car and off we went to the ER.

The craziest part of all this, is after his initial scream, Hudson didn't shed one tear. From the moment we went to the hospital, to the moment he got his 5 stitches put in, he just chatted with us. We sang a few songs as she was stitching him up and and that was it. Carson all the while, still in shock - not making a peep either. Hudson's only request was to see his stitches after they were in and he did. He thought they were pretty cool, because there were blue. He even got a bear from the hospital and named him "Stitches." How perfect, huh!? To be honest, I think Hudson took all of this better than I did. He amazed me and still has over the past three days. Every time I change is bandages, he sits there patiently and we sing songs.

I hope this is our only trip to the ER, but as a mom of boys, I can't predict that!

I have to give a shout out to two people...1. a very kind man, who lived by the park. He had heard Hudson scream and when he saw what was going on, he came right out with gauze, asking us what he could do to help. That in itself, kind sir, was amazing. God bless good people in this world. He kept the stroller in his garage until all of this craziness was over.  2. my mom - who saved the day. This is why I love living close to them. She was there to get us within a matter of 3 minutes and stayed with us until we got home and settled in. Thank you, momma.

Hudson Thomas, here is your first major wound, buddy!...

There are those 5 blue stitches!

So brave, so brave.

"The frog"

Sweet Summer time

We LOVE Summer! Olaf's Summer song is our jam right now..."Bees-a-buzz, kids'll blow dandelion fuzz"..."Rrr Rat da dat dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah doo"

We are living outside! The boys never want to go in. We actually try to avoid the indoors...loud meltdowns! So, we eat outside, play outside, relax outside, shop outside and search for bugs outside. We even got a bug catcher...I'm learning to be okay with bugs, worms, things that crawl. If I act scared, they throw them on me, so I try to avoid that. Fun fun!

Looking for those rollie pollies and worms!

its always a race to the top - gives me a heart attack

At big bro's t-ball game

Carson and Gramps

I get the feeling he knows he's cute

Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin' all cool

We go out to Bryan's shop a lot to check out the plants and of course play in the mud! They always come home covered in mud, head to toe.

Checking out his rollie pollie

Throwing rocks in the lake is the most fun!

First AZ trip this year!

"Should we move here?"

That was the quote of the week last week in Arizona. Gosh we had so much fun! Only thing missing this time around was Bryan...his work kept him home. It's the busiest I have seen him in the 10+ years I've known him. I've gotta hand it to him...he works his a$$ off. I'm crazy proud of him, even though we miss him this time of year.

I decided to take the boys to my folks house in AZ for a week (they were there as well!), because I've been having a heck of a time lately taking them to daycare. It's never been easy, of course, but lately I've been a mess dropping them off everyday. I don't know what it is, maybe just seeing them grow so fast, seeing Hudson in pre-school, Carson moving up to a new room, the list goes on. I needed a week of them to myself, so off we went to AZ, for fun and relaxing in the sun. I soaked up every single second with them...my angels. Ornery angels at times...but my angels. It was a blast! To be honest, it made me want to live there...vacations can do that ;-). I even called Bryan one night and was like "I know you could be so successful here!" The Winters here in Omaha wear on us, we wouldn't have that in AZ...maybe some day.

So what did we do on vacay? We did a lot of swimming, we played outside all day everyday, we went to breakfast and dinner everyday (I jogged to breakfast...why not?) We met up with my parent's friends a couple nights so we could catch up and so they could see the kiddos. And our most favorite night...the RODEO! Oh my gosh, what a fun time. It was up in a town called "Cave Creek," near my parent's house. Its the cutest, funnest little Western town. The kids went crazy. We ate rodeo food, we had good drinks, we hung out with a horse named "Daisy Mae" and we watched a really awesome rodeo. One part of it is was kids riding sheep, whats that called? Mutton Busting? Hudson asked if he could try and that was a big "no."

God bless my folks (AKA Grandma and Grandpa)...they are amazing and they made the week so much fun. Hudson and Carson adore them to the moon and back. Hudson and my dad are best friends...literally. And their bond grew even stronger on the trip. My mom made it a point to force me to take some time to myself in the sun. I did. She was up every morning with me and the boys at 5 or 6am, because they never quite adjusted to the time change...and she always had the coffee brewing...thanks mom.

Here are some photos of the fun we had...we are going back in the Fall, but this time with Bryan. He wants to go to the rodeo!

Cannon balls with Gramps!

Our jog to breakfast

My Mama and my boy

Had this one for Bryan...his fave poolside beer

Dilly bars of course!