Another long night in the ER

Last night (Sunday) during our small group meeting we were in the kitchen cleaning up and all the kids were in the toy room playing when all of a sudden we heard crying. Berkeley came running out saying Oliver hit his head on the window and was bleeding. Sure enough, out he came with a huge gash in his forehead. Apparantly, they were jumping on the bed and he fell and hit his head on the window sill. We jumped in the car and made our way to the closest hospital. He was in a lot of pain and thankfully I had enough sense to have Tom grab the Children's Tylenol on our way out the door. In the car he keps saying "It hurts, Mom, it hurts" so I asked him if we should pray & ask Jesus to help him feel better. He nodded and said "uh-huh, pray." After we prayed I grabbed Tom's phone and he just happened to have a whole bunch of pictures on it from a trip out to a client's house to ride horses just before Christmas. That calmed him right down and he sat in the back seat flipping through all the fun pics of him and Berk riding. We got to the ER and only had to wait about 40 minutes before they saw us. We got there just in time...about 3 minutes after we registered the entire waiting room was full.

His Dr. was super nice...his name was Dr. Ball and he was awesome with Oliver. Whenever he would leave the room Oliver would say "Where Dr. Golf? Dr. Golf help me." They ended up super gluing it rather than giving him stitches which made it a lot easier on him and us. I think Oliver actually kind of enjoyed himself. He got all kinds of juice and crackers. He'd take a drink of juice and say "Mmmmm, tasty juice." Then, he'd take a bite of cracker and say "Mmmm, tasty." He enjoys food almost as much as his mother. On the way out of the ER we saw Dr. Ball at the front desk and Oliver said "Tank you, see you 'morrow Dr. Golf" and high-fived him out the door.

It was actually a rather quick ER trip for us. I think we left around 8:30 and got home around 11:45. He was in bed by midnight. I was up until about 5:00 am trying not to get sick from the horrible sight of my baby's head with a huge gash in it. Tom thought that if it would have been any bigger we would have been able to see his skull. It was pretty narly.

When he woke up this morning I asked him how his head felt and he said "it hurts" so we got him more medicine and he told Berkeley all about how "Dr. Golf helped him with his boo-boo." He has to take it easy for the next few days to make sure it doesn't open back up. It has been a challenging morning trying to make a 2-1/2 yr old lay low. I can't believe we made it 2-1/2 years with him before going to the ER. I'm getting better though...I don't think I swore once this time! It definitely gets easier the second time around! Not that it's enjoyable, it still makes me really angry when my kids get hurt like that and it's so hard to stay calm, but the not swearing thing was ground-breaking for me!

Christmas

Cohen loved opening presents

And eating the ribbon!

A new horse from Cohen

Showing off their matching new shirts from Blake & Mason

Verl, Sherri & Oscar

Seeing "Zach" for the first time

Blake, Oliver & Berk on "Zach"

Mason got a new fire truck

We had a great Christmas! We spent Christmas Eve at Chris & Laura's and had a yummy prime rib dinner. The kids built their gingerbread house with Papa and ate more than they decorated :) Every time I looked at Berk she had her finger in her mouth licking off icing or eating candy! Cohen was really into opening his presents and had a blast tearing up the paper and munching on the ribbons! It was so much fun to watch him enjoying his first Christmas.

We spent Christmas day with Tom's family and had a great time there too. Berkeley & Gracie were in their own little world. I think those two could probably get an apartment together and get along just fine. They are hilarious and completely inseperable! Oliver was in horse heaven. Almost every present he received had something to do with horses and I have never seen him so excited. Verl & Sherri got him a life sized one that makes all kinds of horse noises and he named him "Zach" after a little baby foal that lives right across the street from Sherri. He got horse calendars, books and movies!

It was all so much fun and I felt like I could sleep for about a week after it was all over! Next year will be here before we know it and we'll do it all over again :)

A Growing Family

Here is the latest picture of the Potts' fam. My, oh my, has it grown in just a few short years! It's hard to believe yet another one will be added in about 10 weeks. We had a wonderful Christmas. I will try to post some pictures soon!