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| I tell Ken all the time--the one thing I don't like about our house is the cheap shelving. As if to prove my point this one toppled down while we were all in the Living Room. |
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| We were working on clearing the table after dinner and look over to see Ava playing in the sour cream. |
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| No wait don't eat it! |
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| Apparantly, she loves sour cream (Just like Uncle Austin--Yuck!). |
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| The kids looking at our blog. Chase had a long day and couldn't keep his eye open any longer. |
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| We stumbled upon this nice park with a pond. The kids loved the swans and ducks. |
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| A couple was kind enough to share their bread with us, so we could feed the swans/ducks too. |
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| Ava and Jordan watching the ducks. |
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| This doesn't happen very often. . . |
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| but it sure is cute when it does. |
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| Good morning Ava. |
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| Jordan showing us her gymnastic move. |
I hate to even share this story because I still feel SOOOO terrible about the whole thing. We had just moved our treadmill out into the family room so we could watch TV while working out. One morning I decided to try and squeeze in a workout before the kids were up and going. Well, Chase and Caden came down to see what I was up to. Chase came up behind the treadmill and fell on the end of it. The treadmill then pinned him to the floor. I turned off the machine as fast as I could but not before it rubbed poor Chase raw. I put neosporin on it and bandages. The poor kid was in so much pain. He was crying and shaking and his teeth were chattering. We had to do this twice a day for a couple weeks. It was not fun! Even when his wounds were scabbed over and pretty much healed he didn't want anyone to touch him to change his bandages. I can't even imagine how painful it must have been. I haven't been able to get on the treadmill since. It is a month later and the ones on his arms are almost completely gone and the ones on his legs are all healed over and are just red.
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| Kailyn reading to Chase. The first day he was miserable and didn't want to do anything. Kailyn was wonderful to read him story after story. |
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| Here is his leg several days after the indicent. We ended up putting a diaper on him because it was easier to take on and off so he could use the restroom without having to pull underwear up and down. |
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| After we changed his bandages he was in pain for the next little bit and had a hard time getting comfortable. |
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| I am so sorry Chase. Thank goodness you are such a tough kid. I can't believe how well you handled it. It was so cute watching you try and keep up with Caden while trying to hobble along on a straight leg (bending his leg hurt). I'm just so glad he is better now. |
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| One night Jordan wanted to make a fancy dinner so she picked a bunch of wild flowers and spread the pedals all over the table. |
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| So precious. Kailyn holding Ava. |
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| We went to the zoo and I decided to let the kids feed the goats. NONE of the kids wanted to feed them. I finally talked Jordan into trying. |
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| Yeah she didn't like it too much. |
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| Ava got sick with a fever and was pretty mello for a couple days. Here she feel asleep on my bed watching me fold laundry. |
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| On our last trip we kept catching Jordan staring out the window. She was totally fascinated by the lines passing by (she normally doesn't sit by the window). |
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| Working on peas from our garden. |
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| Jordan's self portraits from school. |
