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My Matthew fell on a bowling ball yesterday. He cut open under his chin. he went to visit the ER and they superglued him back together. It came apart last night. They redid the superglue.

Today it was still seeping blood and puss so they looked at it. He is alright. Just getting rid of the swelling it has. Let it be and take care of my man.

Tonight he goes to open house. He will meet his teacher and drop off all his junk. He is soo excited! He wanted to leave an hour ago. He has 3 more hours to go.

We leave for MI on Thur morning. I hope to know what I am doing with the blog by time we come home. As I know just me typing is not that exciting!

But no pictures as blogger hates me.

My other firemen

Of course after Stephen Samantha needed to try it.

And then Matthew.

Which was just funny!

As he had a hard time walking in just the pants and boots

But God he is cute!

National Night Out

Mini loved driving the truck

All the kids and the 2 firemen.

Matthew got to climb in and play too. He wanted to check out the oxygen tanks.

I told you she liked driving. She hung out in there a long time.

See what I mean?! Like 4 other kids came and went and there she sat. Good thing those guys were not in too big a hurry!

bowling

Look at that form there on my son! Oh Matthew loves to bowl!

We went with some friends and the kids love to bowl with them.

And compete. Yes they see who gets the highest score. It is fierce I tell you! Of course I make my kids bowl with no bumpers. LOL handicap them is what I say. Matthew has bumpers yet. But he is getting better all the time.

4 wheel riding

Dominic has a small 4 wheeler and it is set to only go so fast so on Sat the kids got to try it out. Stephen first. And since he is my caustious one. He went driving around and never hit a tree.

Jim gave the little ones a ride.

Including Twitch who loves to go for rides.

Then it was Samantha's turn.

Needless to say I made her get off after a bit. She would not go a speed she could control. It was stop or full on. She hit a tree not once but twice and then Mom ended her ride. Magically I think she has learned that maybe a bit slower would be better. But we will see next time we go up. She is my child who loves to show off. What am I to do with her?

Check out bears under bite. It is so cute! He really is a good puppy! And Bear and twitch even played well together this time. Not so much hiding going on from twitch.

Look who was in the dog house!

And who had joined him!

Yea you guessed who sent them there, yea the bossy lady who only happenes to be 10.

The kids played great all weekend and we had a really good visit. It had been too long since we had time to run visit Jim and Kay and we took the chance when it came that we could go.

What to do on a rainy day

When it looks like this outside what do you do with 3 kids who are home with you?

Well in our case you go bowling!

Why do people turn away? Really it is not worth your energy! I just take more!

The kids had a good time and we stayed dry and best of all Mini went to sleep on the way home and took a good nap once we got there! All that weight lifting she does while out bowling.

Dennis and his surgery

Dennis had his hernia surgery on Thursday at noon. Stephen and I had worked the county fair booth from 5am to 9am. I came home and got Dennis and left shortly after. We had to be there by 11am. It just so happened we got a friend for his preop. Always good.

We got home out of there around 2pm. And I went and got him some drugs to take. They put a patch on his ear to make sure he did not get sick. they gave him the same patch as you Dad so you did not get sick on the salmon boat.

Anyway, the first day he slept almost the whole evening and night. He felt better. Stopped taking his meds. So Friday was a bit hard on him trying to get back in the game. And ahead of the pain. Stephen and I had to work the fair booth. Dennis learned a very big lesson here. When the doctor says tak eit this long and then see. Take it a few days then see how you feel. He slept a lot Friday too. And the weekend each day was better for him.

He was supposed to go back to work today but well he decided to take one more day to lay low. And I am glad he did. He looks better but he seems to still be moving really slow and an hour in the car driving to and from work is not the best plan for today I am sure. Anyway I expect him to be back at work in the morning. And he is feeling better and his belly button is now all flat. No more bump sticking out of it. The doctor said it went great and if he flollows rules he should not need to come see him again except for his 2 week post op.

Now the kids with all this have spent a great deal of time laying next to Dennis. For them this is been a good thing. More time with Dad and he is in bed most of the time watching a show or sleeping so might as well crawl up there and hang with him!

boys will be boys?

Mini put her hat on Stephen. He let her then he let me take a picture. I love that he is ok with laughing at himself. I love that he lets his little sister make him look funny. I love that he lays so nice with her. I really love this goof ball!

twitch was not in the mood for a picture.

I got him anyway. He hung out on my lap while we watched a fire with friends.

And a fire we had. And it got to sit up by it till late and just sit and relax. it was nice having a night to not run. Dennis had to work late so he did not get to join in. But other then that I could not have asked for a nicer night.

The boys crashed out on the floor. There was nothing left in them. I had to work hard to get Stephen to wake enough to head upstairs. I can not just pick him up and tuck him in anymore.

The girls had made their own way up earlier. And I followed these boys up and tucked myself into bed. Dennis was still not home. But he got in and we got to hang out Sat and Sunday together.

swimming

We went to Tia and Kents for supper on Wednesday night. The kids got to swim.

And swim they did for over an hour.

Stephen is under there. Do not ask why. I never figured it out.

But he built this structure to play under and swim with and he had a good time playing under it too. Tia was like here is a boy scout doing his thing. Because he focused on it for a long time getting it just right and then playing.

Off to bowl

We went with Rachel and her girls to bowl on Tuesday. The kids had a good time and we just had the big kids in one lane and the small kids in the other.

going bowling

Man does she not look thrilled?

He is happy to be throwing a ball down the lane.

I took the kids and Julie brought her kids plus some to play a few games of bowling with us. We bought the kids a pass so they can bowl 2 games a day for the next few months. And I plan to us it a lot. The kids love to go and I get top sit and visit with other people. Well and help Mini get the ball downt he lane sometimes.

We even fed the kids pizza while there. They had a blast and they got to play with friends. I think I may take them again today after I get my shirts done that I will be getting picked up tonight.