Day 287

I had to make a birthday cake today so I dropped Alex of at daycare so he wouldn't be in my way today. The last thing I need is him yelling "Cake!" and trying to stick his fingers in it. On the road there we saw this trailed that fell into thew ditch and lost his load.

I got a request for a chihuahua birthday cake and this is the result. It took about 5 hours of non stop baking and decorating to make it. Sometimes I wish I could sneak a piece of these cakes...so tempting!

Day 235

Today we spent a few hours de-stickering Wally's van to get it ready for sale.

As we picked and peeled, Wally decided to let the boys play inside the van. Bad move. They started fighting over the window controls. Alex was pressing the button on one door to get the window to go down, and the Ryan was using the master controls on the drivers door to bring it back up. Suddenly the whole van shut down and Wally couldn't even get it started anymore. Not really what you want to happen the day before it goes up for sale. He was really pissed and kicked the kids out to their rooms. Ryan never really sees Wally mad so he was a bit worried as to how much trouble he was in. I went inside with them while Wally tried to fix the car and Ryan asked me with great worry "Am I going to jail?" I reassured him that he would not but that maybe he should do something nice for Dad to show him that he was sorry. So he ended up making him a card with an apology and a picture inside. Thankfully all the van needed was a boost and it was good to go again.

After all the drama, I was out around the yard when I almost stepped on this guy. He's a Tomato Hornworm Caterpillar, and he is huge!

Day 198

This morning Ryan was playing with a small children's ride on toy when he hit a bump that was actually a protruding tree root. It managed to flip him over and the toy landed right on top of him. There was a blunt pointy part which actually punctured his forehead above the left eye. The minute I saw it, I knew we would be taking a trip to the hospital.

Ryan is terrified of the hospital, so I think he was crying more over the trip to the ER than the cut itself. He was shaking with fear for the first half hour there but once he met the nurse, he calmed down considerable. There was a big emergency so we had a big wait time ahead of us. We took a few walks around the hospital, and had lunch in the cafeteria and suddenly the hospital was a very cool place.

5 hours later, it was time to get in and see the doctor and he was back to being scared and shakey. His eyes got red and teared up and he was so scared of getting stitches. The Dr. took a look and instead got out some glue, within 5 minutes he was all healed up and he was so surprised. I think he had it in his head that he was going to end up with some kind of big scary procedure. He was so happy and proud of himself when we left..."I was really brave, Mom!" He's also loving showing off his new glued head.

Here is the big hole before...

During...

And after, all patched up...