Things happen in three's and four's

Caleb was riding his bike to their old house to water plants for his mom, on the way home, his pedal fell off the bike and he really scraped up his big toe....of course that wouldn't have happened if he was wearing shoes instead of flip flops! ONE: sore big toe!

Addie seems to love the shower and doesn't want to leave it, of course a lot of toys are in the shower for her to play with...letters and alphabets that cling to the walls and sliding plastic door. It took Lacey 45 minutes to finally get her out of the shower (Lacey had tried about three times turning off the water and Addie just laid on the shower floor and screamed! So the water came back on!!). Later that same night, she was back in the shower, only this time she tripped and hit her chin on the metal strip that the sliding doors sit on. As with most "head" type cuts, she really bled a lot and her chin was swollen, but no stitches were needed! TWO: Addie's cut chin.

Caleb is taking a music camp this week (actually Ellie and Lily are in the camp too) and he wore his flip flops to camp. No big deal, cause they are inside playing instruments. Except during lunch break the kids were playing tag and Caleb took off his flip flops so he could run faster and guess what? Another stubbed toe! This one was rather ugly and was stinging, so the camp called Mommy to come get him! THREE: another big toe stubbed!

After resting a bit after getting home early from the big toe stubbing at school, he got on his bike to visit a friend (he was wearing a close toe shoe this time!) and while riding through a forested area and leaning a bit too far over the handle bars, and hitting a root....he was thrown head first into a tree! He cut his chin pretty bad and Papa thought it definitely needed stitches, which he said: NO WAY! But Mommy took him to an urgent care after getting the younger two children to bed and guess what? Yup, he had a total of 8 stitches in his chin...3 under the skin and 5 on top. Now he was actually pretty good for the chin repair, but when the doctor took one or should I say two looks at his two big toes it was clear that they needed to be cleaned and disinfected immediately. He was NOT a happy camper about cleaning his sore toes. But with a little topical numbing agent, they managed to clean them up and told him to keep them clean, soak them a couple times a day and be sure they were totally dry before putting on shoes. FOUR: cut on chin requiring stitches!

Well, this was certainly a couple of rough days for Lacey and just think, Tristan is only almost 4 months old! Aren't you just anxious to hear more of the Prueitt emergencies?