Sunday, May 16, 2010

Sinjin's Stitches :(

On Monday, the 3rd of May, poor little Sinjin was trying to keep up with his brother, and he fell on a dirt road and split open the top of his knee :(  We were up on the mountain watching daddy paraglide and the kids decided they wanted to start walking down the road while we were packing up.  That's when the terror began... Tait came walking up the road crying really hard so we drove over to him and he say's "Sinjin fell and cut his leg and I can see the bone!"  So of course we rush down and see poor Tiernan carrying him to us, with a scraped knee herself from falling while carrying him.  We put pressure on it and drove home to clean it.  Right when I saw it I knew it needed stitches.  Thank goodness for the night clinic at our doctors office!  On the way there, Washington City was having their Cotton Days Celebration fireworks, so we had fun watching them while driving.  When we got there the doctor numbed his leg and cleaned out all the gravel, then she put 3 stitches inside and 7 on the top.  It was a rainbow shape.  The whole time Sinjin just lay on the bed reading Diego with me and didn't make one little peep other than helping me count the things in the book.  What a trooper.  When he was all sewed up, the doctor brought out a magnetics Spiderman for Sinjin cause he was such a brave patient!  He was so excited!  Of course, today (Sunday the 16th of May)  Thane couldn't wait any longer, he had to take the stitches out himself.  "Why do we have to pay a doctor to take them out when we can do it ourselves?"  he says.  I say "Cause the doctor told me to come back in to make sure it's healing properly".  It doesn't matter, they are out now and everything is fine now.  Phew!


Here is a closer picture of the stitches.

Piano Recital 2010!



My kids have had the privilege to take piano lessons this year from my dear friend Melanie.  She is such a great teacher and motivator!  She had this cute idea of calling them the "Harmonizing Heroes".  She took a picture of each of them and cut out their heads and glued them to Superman bodies!  Then each week when they would go to practice, they would earn points that would help them "fly" higher on the board.  The board was really cute too, first they had to pass the buildings, then they had to pass the mountains, then they got to fly on a bird, then the sun, then two stars, the moon twice, then they made it to the H for Heroes!  They had a blast watching the progress each week.  Tait and Tiernan made it to the H before the recital, so Melanie had a special treat for them and announced it in front of everyone.  She has such nice things to say about them.  The Theme of this recital was Movies, so Tiernan was Tilly from "An American Tale" and she played "Somewhere Out There", Tait was Charlie from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and he played "Willy Wonka", and Amara was Snow White and played "Someday My Price Will Come".

Here is Tait playing his song...

Here is Tiernan's turn...

And Amara...
Thanks a bunch Melanie!  You are teaching my kids skills for life! :)

Sinjin's 5th Birthday at home with the family.

We always get breakfast in bed on our birthday, and this time Sinjin wanted toaster strudels! :)  What a cutie!

Here he is in bed just after blowing out his candle.  I think he looks a little tired from all the partying we did the night before :)


Here he his opening his presents before school.

He was obsessed with "How to Train Your Dragon"  this year so that's just about all he got.  Oh, and a Star Wars sword too!

Here they are hatching a Dragon egg...

I was pretty fun to hatch a dragon~  Happy Birthday Sinjin!!!  We love you~