Minor injury

Tonight right before reading Hunter his bedtime stories I accidentally poked him in the eye with the corner of the book we were about to read. Don't ask me how...it was such a random occurence. Anyhow, he was crying really hard (poor thing) because his eye had been open when the accident happened. Ouch! I tried to console him and when he was able I asked him to open it to take a look. I said, "Well, it looks a little irritated." After a pause he said, "I don't know how this has anything to do with my ear Mom...it's my EYE!!" I had to explain what "irritated" meant. He didn't find any humor in it given his sad state but I thought it was HILARIOUS!!

We went to a Halloween Kids Party at the twin club on Sunday and Hunter had a blast. He went around the retirement home where we have our meetings and events and trick or treated with the old folks. Then they had crafts for the kids to do in the dining area. Hunter made a necklace with black and white beads and told me it was his "Halloween rosary." We had a super fun afternoon. Tyler and Brody were a hit in their costumes. More to come (with pictures) on this later...check back after Saturday. I should have good pics by then.

Pure torture

Today while we were at the grocery store a lady asked if Brody & Ty were girls. AGH! So on a whim I decided to brave their first haircut by myself. WHAT WAS I THINKING?! What a disaster. I came prepared with my camera and our video camera to document the occasion. That was wishful thinking. The picture shows how it went. Lots of screaming and crying the whole time. Not even milk would calm them down. I can understand why...there was hair all over their bottles. Mmmmm...tasty!

Tyler went first and hated every second. I was assuming he would stop crying once it was Brody's turn. Not the case. Next time it's John's turn to take them!! :)

Loose tooth!

Hunter is losing a tooth! He bit down on his breakfast this morning and started crying hysterically. I thought he had bit his lip or tongue because he kept saying how it hurt but then he told me that it was wiggly. I got him a washcloth with some ice in it and there was a little bit of blood on it. He's mostly afraid of what is happening. I tried to reassure him and he said, "Well, I like the tooth fairy but I don't want to lose all of my teeth!" Chalk it up to more growing pains...

Climbers

This is what we've been dealing with of late. Lots of CLIMBING!! Tyler and Brody LOVE to climb and the chairs on this play table are the perfect enablers! They just push them around to whatever taller piece of furniture they'd like to explore and voila! they're up in no time. To their dismay we've had to put them on top of the play table for now to put an end to this new development. Big brother Hunter has saved the day on a number of occasions either by calling it to my attention or by getting them down safely on his own.