Things to do before I turn 3...

I'm beginning to think Sam has a list of things to check off before he turns 3. Seriously. The last few days have been crazy and since he turns 3 soon I think he's trying to check off the list. As long as he makes it to 3 and 10 times that I'll be super happy! Anyway, here is why I'm interrupting my slow catch up from Feb.

No he didn't break his foot and I hope he doesn't! However, Thursday evening he decided to step on his second bee in about a year. Last time he had a bit of a reaction to it but it took a while to swell and turn red. This time, what took 5-10 hours to do last time, happened in 5-10 min. It has continued to swell and get more red but the cream they gave us to put on it after his first reaction seem to GREATLY slow the process! So his whole foot is very red and swollen.
Now for why there is a big blue bandage on his foot. Today we went to the store to get groceries and such and since he didn't want to sit in the stroller (because his foot has been really hurting and ichy) and the cart we had didn't have a child's seat he decided to sit on the handlebar. It was about 3-4 inches wide and had another metal bar behind it so since I didn't want him climbing all over the cart and falling off I agreed to let him stay there as long as he was careful. I figured that was safer.

Part way through the trip he decided to launch himself off and split his chin open. He was screaming like a maniac and I thought it was just another "I'm miserable!" scream since Arnold and I checked him and didn't see anything wrong. However about 1 min later he looked up at me and I noticed blood everywhere. The first time I checked it I thought, "that doesn't look to bad" but the second glance I got of it when some of the blood got wiped off on his shirt told me otherwise. I knew he needed stitches.

So Arnold went to clean him up a bit and I got the groceries. (we'll leave out all the stuff about me not coping with it all very well because my sleep hasn't been very good the last 2 nights, I've been stressed out about his poor badly swollen foot, tired from holding an exhaustingly needy, bee stung , heavy almost 3 year old for a day etc.) Basically I was all shaky and hoping I wouldn't pass out while they rang up the groceries.

So then we headed to the hospital and everything was great! They were friendly and kind. Oh, and we didn't even have to wait. I guess there weren't a lot of people getting hurt today. At first the Doctor thought his chin would be fine taped, but when he went to do that he said it definitely was deeper than he thought and he needed 2 stitches. While they got that ready they looked at his foot and decided it definitely needed some help too, so that's why he got the cool blue bandage. I think I'm glad that he has his 3 year check up on Wednesday! I just hope he doesn't break a leg before then. We can wait a VERY long time before he tries to check that one off his list if it's up to me.

Boy cousin photo shoot

Ok so this is just a warning. I had a ton of pictures and there were a lot of funny ones but not really any amazing ones so I didn't have just one to post so here are most of the pictures that I took. This is a photo dumping so skim it and Enjoy!

Oh and just a note. Sam woke up from his nap moments before this. He seemed happy at first and very willing but as you can see that changed. First the zoned out look from Sam and randomness from Alex.











At this point Sam got tired of being asked to smile and suddenly made a move for me.

Oh so tired.
The Alex photo shoot.




And then the girls came to join and give hugs. I think Alex enjoyed it.



We tried again with Sam thinking the all amazing Grandad might be able to cheer him up but it didn't work and instead we got the saddest face in the world.

The Jones Cousins

This is all the non baby Jones cousins all together in one spot in February. That has now been added to by 3 more. Well, Klara was already around for a few months but she was not able to be there for the insanity. As you can see they all did pretty good except mine... Oh well, I'm posting all the half decent pictures so you can watch the fun. I think this photo shoot took at most a min to finish.

Enjoy!

Oh the funny thing is we got all the kids on the couch and in the time it took to get the camera on you can see what my son was already doing. And yes there were several attempts to fix the little wiggle worms wiggliness.

Random fun

Ok, so these are a few random pictures of fun things I didn't want to leave out...
Marie in the backyard not sure whether to chase Lucy, the dog, or run from her. It was actually quite funny. :)
My little ones love to swing so I'm always grateful for double swings!
I think this one is kinda funny because I've seen all the ones before. Sam wouldn't hold still and we got all the girls to look but even in this one he's still off somewhere else.
Just playing with Uncle Seth again and I think Sam was in awe of the nintendo.
Paprika! Sam eats peppers like candy and will even ask for them all the time, so it was fun to see them all eating them together! :)

Baby Shower for Brette!

This is way overdue because their baby is now at least 6 weeks old but hey, I'm playing catch up from my days of slacking. So this is the happy no longer expecting couple after nap time :)
And of course we had a game for all to play. Even the little people although I think they mostly just ate Peanut Butter M&M's.
And the best part is opening presents... or was that jumping on Uncle Seth?
Oh, gotta hug him too! :)

Yup, ALL babies got involved! Who wouldn't want to with so much cuteness and all that fun paper! :)

Naptime!

I know what you are thinking... these are not the cute little babies I expected to see. Yea but it was still funny that while they were doing this...
We set up this and the little people were doing this.
And here it is all in one picture. :) Toys were left for something much more interesting.
I think my babies were actually napping at the time.

Sam and the painfully slow forward roll

I don't know how he does this. I really don't. But he does usually do them faster than this so it's not like he does it all the time.