Gems in Ear Canals Among Other Things

All I can say is that there is never a dull moment around this house! I paid the last bit of money that I owed to the pediatrician earlier this month and I am just waiting on the "next thing". We managed to avoid anything major with Caleb's accident with the curb. I was afraid we were going to end up in the ER with Levi this weekend. He "accidentally" stuffed a bead from a broken bracelet of Sarah's in his ear.

In typical laid back Levi fashion, as Christian was drying him off from the tub on Saturday night he says very casually, "Oh yeah, I put a green gem in my ear the other night and it is still in there." I grabbed our ghetto otoscope that I bought from One Step Ahead a long time ago and we looked in his ear. Sure enough, there was a sparkly green "gem" in there. We tried to get it out ourselves by shooting water in there. At one point Christian was literally holding him upside down trying to shake it out. Finally we decided that we needed to leave it to the professionals.

I called a good friend whose husband is a PA and asked her if I should go to the ER or if this was something that the pediatrician could handle. She insisted that we bring Levi over on Sunday afternoon and let J have a shot at it. Thankfully he was able to roll it out with some utensil he had in his doctor bag and we left with a green bead in a zip loc and a smile on our faces. Levi was so good and still while J was extracting the bead that I bought him a treat for being so brave.

Christian and I aren't exactly electronic gadgets people. We have one TV, one VCR, and one DVD player that were all given to us when someone else upgraded. Christian's mom gave the boys a Wii for Christmas a few years ago and for $9 a month we can watch shows and movies from Netflix without having the crazy cable bill that some people have. Our laptop is on it's last leg. The down arrow key is missing, the mouse pad button is about to follow, and the screen is pulling away from the computer. I called to see how much it would cost to repair...$400. That is the cost of a new laptop!

Christian took matters into his own hands...

Some men use duct tape...my man uses a drill! Although he wasn't successfull with his drill, the epoxy he squirted down there has helped a bit. It's just buying us time:)

Sarah actually sat still long enough for me to paint her piggies! I have been looking forward to this day. It makes her little Fred Flintstone .block feet look feminine. She keeps sticking her foot in my face and saying "pwetty!"

The boys are in to watching A Team reruns on Netflix and they like to talk like Mr. T. We already had to establish that it was not respectful for them to yell "Get me some milk, fool!" at the table. Of course Sarah is into it, too. It cracks me up when she says "foo!" I took a picture of her saying it so you could see the face she makes...

"Have a great week, foo!"