Ethan's Tough Week

Well, with the start of school this week, we were all ready for the week to begin. Ethan woke up the first few days with "growing pains". I never really understood this and don't remember if it happened when I was a little boy. Ethan had real bad cramps in both legs from his thighs and hamstrings down to his ankles for the first two days. Wednesday was a little better, but still some mild cramps in his legs.

Then Thursday he gets off the bus and walks up to the house, trips and bangs his knee. He comes in the house with a cut or scrape on his knee and sees blood and begins to wail (there is a whole other story in this). Anyway, he gets his knee fixed, gets a bath and his tooth is even loose a little. Wendy and Ethan tried to pull it but with no avail. We have a movie on this.

Then Friday, he couldn't go to Mindy's birthday party because he didn't do his chores.

Finally, Today, Ethan really had it rough today. He was playing on the bed this morning and fell off and hurt his mouth and blood came out where his tooth was located. Wendy finally came and got me after struggling with Ethan, trying to get his tooth out. Well, I tried a method, an old one at that, to tug or jerk his tooth out by making a noose out of floss. I convinced Ethan that he would be the one to pull the tooth. His reaction to that was much more calm. After I got the tooth tied and ready to pull, he was very hesitant to pull the tooth. I quickly helped him out and it came out very easily. Whew!

I am not finished, yet. Later on today Katherine got mad at Ethan for bothering her and Jamie and took her trash bag, which contained a broken trophy, and swung at him and hit him on top of his head, which commenced to bleed. Ethan ran downstairs to tell Wendy and me and we noticed blood dripping down his face and his hands. This really scared us and we cleaned it up and called the doctor. After a couple of hours of wait, we finally were able to see the doctor. By this time Ethan was still bleeding but not so much. Dr. Harmon was the physician that saw him. The doctor always make the patients hurt. Well, he was cleaning the wounds and Ethan was really hurting. It got to the point where the doctor asked me to assist him so that he could clean the wound. This is not even the bad part. After that he began to spread the glue on Ethan's head it was okay. Then Ethan really started to feel the sting in the glue. It was awful. Ethan was screaming, crying, jerking and grabbing the doctors arm because of the pain. He was telling the doctor to blow it and the doctor did. After a couple of minutes the pain subsided and we were able to go home. That was hard to take to see Ethan go through that pain.

Finally School has come

Monday, the first day of school. It was finally here. They were all excited on Sunday. They got all there stuff (clothes, lunch, etc.) ready on Sunday and went to bed a little early. I remember Katherine was going to the bathroom late that night and Wendy told her to get to bed. She replied that she couldn't sleep. That's probably because she was so excited. Monday morning we woke up a little early and fixed a big "First Day of School" Breakfast, well the bus decided to come on time or early whichever it was this day so we didn't get to take the pictures that we usually do.

So later on this week Wendy Made sure to take a few pictures for historical purposes. One day we can look back at these and see how much they've grown.

Slipping Sliding Splashing Fun

These are older pictures that we took on the 4th of July. After we ate lunch the children wanted to go out side and play in the water hose. Well, grandma got a little smarter and found some plastic and tarps and put hand soap on them to make them slicker with water. We filmed Paul taking his boys and gliding them down the plastic because they were not fast enough to slide themselves.

Hip Hop Hoppers

One night, before bedtime, the children decided to put on there glasses and act "Yo Yo". So here is some pictures of almost all of them being cool.

It was hard to get Jeffery still to take a picture


Ethan was real into the signs.


Katherine is very photogenic anyway.

Reality Shows

I am not that much into reality shows these days, but I used to watch "American Idol" and lost interest. Here a few or more years back Wendy and I got on a kick watching movies that had dancing in it because it was so cool to see the choriography and the cool moves that they would perform. Now, I have no rhythm at all so I can't claim to be a good dancer and will not ever, but I do like to watch it. Here about 5 years ago Fox aired a show called "So you think you can dance" and a couple of years later MTV aired a show called "Americas Best Dance Crew". Well, we watch them frequently and really get into it. Some people like to watch other dance "reality" shows, but we have found these to be very entertaining. Here is a clip of one of the performances last night that is a real nice taste of the quality that is on this show.

Voicemail Message

This is such a cute little message that Jeffery left me the other day. You will definitely enjoy it.