Fall Festival, Browns, & Deja Vu at the Emergency Room!

 Sky's company hosted a big open house this past Saturday.  It was soooo awesome for the kids.  They had 4 bounce houses, a face painting station, a build a bear station, a sundae bar, a DJ, cornhole tournaments, and lots of food!!!  The kids had a blast!

Our lil driver!

#probablynotthebestideawithabrokenarm

Horssssshyyyyyy!

1st time getting his face painted!

Like Mama, Like Son!  Who doesn't want a chocolate sundae for breakfast!

A sign of a good time!  Passed out without a binkie!

We chilled Saturday night...we were all tired!!!  Sunday was all about the Browns-Steelers!  The kiddos were dressed up their gear!

And this little lady was pretty excited with our big win!!!

This lil one loves her some Halloween Oreos!!!

Monday started out like any other day and ended much differently than I would have expected!

Favorite new sport: trying on everyone's hsoes!

My handsome man ready for school!

After we dropped Grey at school, Tator joined me at a Doc appointment!  She enjoyed reading!

Innocent fun right???
Well this naive mama left to dress Tator and when I came back Grey wasn't holding that cast out of the water anymore...
"Hi Mom...my arm went scuba diving!"
Needless to say his cast was soaked!!!

 I really wanted to avoid going to Childrens ER at all cost after our last experience, but after speaking to 2 nurse friends, the Childrens Urgent Care, and the Ortho at the Childrens ER, we headed back down to Children's ER at about 7pm.  Sky left his wallet at work by accident so he was off the hook!

Grey was such a champ about it!  We watched the IPAD, had a snack from the vending machine, and talked!

After about 90 minutes of waiting, we were taken back into a room.  He was not happy that the wait continued!

Finally we saw the Ortho who advised that they were going to do their best to remove the cast, recast his arm, and xray him so another sedation/reset was not necessary!  We lucked out and the bones did not move!  Whew!

Grey chose blue for his cast this time!  He was such a ham!

As the docs were casting him, he said..."Thanks Guys!  Thanks for taking such good car e of me.  I'm not scared of anything...except bugs and spiders"!

God love this kid!

Our week in Pix & 3 more weeks with the cast!

Good news from the doc Wednesday!  The cast comes off in 3 weeks...10.29.14!  Just in time for Halloween!  Everything appears to be healing nicely!

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10 Year West Point Reunion

After our fiasco Wednesday night, we headed off to West Point for Skyler's 10 year reunion!  Thankfully Travis was with us so we had two drivers.  I was useless due to not sleeping at all Wednesday night.  We took the van and I laid down with my pillow/blanket and zonked!  We had a 10 hour drive and I slept at least half of it.  I spent the other time watching movies and just relaxing!

We arrived at our hotel about 5pm and got ready for dinner with Travis, Magda, and Travis!  It was so great seeing them!  I so wish we lived closer!

Travis Dent, Travis Marks, and Sky

Saturday we got up early and headed to West Point.  It is absolutely beautiful!  We visited at the perfect time of year.  I swear, the mountains and trees looked almost not real it was so beautiful!

There was a memorial service in the chapel for all of the fallen soldiers from the Class of 2004.  I believe there were 11 lost:(  A very close friend of Travis Marks' was killed in 2007 I believe.  His parents attended the reunion.  My heart truly went out to them.  I can't even imagine how hard it must have been to be surrounded with all of their son's friends without their son around.  Sky also lost a close friend, Mike Cerrone.  His parents were not there, but it was still nice for all of the classmates to reflect.

Travis Marks at the cemetary

Sky and I

Magda and I 

The memorial to the fallen Class of 2004

Sky, myself, Cristina & Adam Bojarski

Classic Artillery Pose

Vince Rhee and my boo

After the memorial, we spent the day walking around West Point.  We visited Sky's barracks, the library, the Cadet store, etc...  It was perfect weather and so wonderful to finally see where Sky spent 4 years of his life.

Friday night we went to a "dressy" dinner at the hotel with all of Sky's classmates.  We didn't take one picture:(  I passed out about 11pm, but Sky drank and visited until 2:30am!  What a trooper!!!

Saturday morning was another early morning.  Unfortunately it was raining so the wreath laying ceremony and parade was cancelled.  We did make it for the lunch in the mess hall.  The "mess hall" was absolutely amazing!  All of the cadets eat at the same time so there is literally room for 1000+.

After lunch, we headed to the stadium.  It was cold and wet, but the Black Knights won!  (and that doesn't happen often!)

After the game, the sky cleared, the sun came out, and the weather turned to perfection again!  There was a post-game tailgate organized and it was really nice.  Just more food, drinks and visiting.  By about 6pm, Cristina and I were done!  We were damp and tired!!!  We headed back to the hotel, took a nice hot shower, and I settled into bed.  Skyler was beyond tired, but he didn't want to miss anything.  He headed back out to the hotel bar and hung until 1:30am!  Carazy man!

We got up early and got on the road at 630!  I was soooo reaady to see these two!

We made it home in good time...arrived home at 3pm!  It was a nice break from reality, but coming home is always wonderful!

Grey's First (and hopefully last) Broken Bone!

The week started out like any other...

(this is Tator's new pre-bath routine...she sits on the potty and talks about the potty and pee pee!  No actual peeing has yet occurred, but I guess its the first step)

So Wednesday afternoon, my parents arrived.  They were in town to watch the kids while we went to the Sky's 10 year West Point Reunion.  We planned to leave Thursday morning and return Sunday afternoon.   I made Spaghetti and meatballs for everyone and we were all having a grand old time.  About 645 Sky got home and was playing with Grey in the family room.  Grey was all wrapped up like a burrito in a blanket and Sky picked him up like he has done a 1000 times before to move him...and Grey fell to the floor.  I have never heard him cry so hard and so loud for so long:(  His left arm was limp and before long the swelling sunk in.  We soon realized we had to take him for an xray.

My mom and I headed to a regular Urgent Care.   They took one look and said we needed to go to the Children's Close to Home Urgent Care.  We headed there and waited some more.  They got us all registered and we headed back so Grey could get an xray.  To say Grey was scared would be an understatement.  I pretty much had to hold him down so they could xray him.  When he realized what an xray entailed, he started saying how much he loved xrays!  It was hysterical!

It didn't take long to find out that his arm was broken just above the elbow.

The orthopedic nurse fitted him into a splint and we thought we were waiting to be released and follow up with an orthopedic doctors in a few days when the swelling went down...boy were we wrong!

The orthopedic doctor determined that the bone was not only broken, but had become unaligned.  Our next stop would be the ER at Children's Hospital downtown.  We arrived there about 11:30 and never dreamed it would be our home for the next 7 hours.  We waited in the waiting room for about an hour or so and then were taken back to a room....where we waited for another hour or so.  Finally we found out that Grey would need to be sedated so his arm could be reset and casted.  We thought our night was finally winding down....yeah right!  We waited two or so more hours before we were moved to another room where we waited even more!

Poor buddy passed out around 1am.  This was probably a blessing though...

Finally at about 3:45, they sedated Grey and fixed his arm.  We waited another two hours for Grey to wake up from sedation so we could head home.  We walked in the door at 6:30am!

It was quite the evening, but the important thing is Grey was well taken care of.  I can't say that any of the nurses were that friendly and the Resident who was accompanying the Ortho Doc was a complete tool.  His bedside manner was atrocious!  Grey wouldn't wake up and he kept saying what's wrong with him???  Is he serious...its 2am...his arm is broken, and we have been waiting for almost 7 hours!  That's whats wrong with him you buffoon!  (Ok I feel better now)

I felt terrible leaving, but I knew the kiddos were in good hands with Mimi and Pop (and Auntie Dani and Greggy who visited a lot)

Grey will have this cast on for a few weeks at a minimum.  We go back on Wednesday to have it re-xrayed to make sure the bones are healing correctly.  There is a small chance he would need surgery to have pins placed in his bones, but we are hoping that this does not happen.  They are always very careful when the break is near a growth plate.

Two funny things Grey did....when we were in the hospital he kept saying Daddy isn't Daddy anymore, we are going to call him Droppy now!  #2 Danielle and Greg took Grey to Kroger with them to get him out of the house on Saturday and the bagger girl asked him what he did to his arm....Grey very matter of factly said "my Dad dropped me!"  Ha!

What a night!!!!  Sky felt horrible, but honestly I know this isn't the last time something like this will happen.  Grey is a total boy and it's amazing that for all the crazy things he does and the rough housing he does with not only Sky, but other kids, that something so minor caused such an injury!  Let's just hope the next injury happens in the morning...spending the night in the ER is not something I ever want to do!!!  LOL!