Another Davis Injury

So far it seems like Davis will be our accident child. Christian even signed us up for Aflac! Apparently they pay you to take your kids to the ER! We haven't been there yet, but with Davis in the family it could be any day now.

So, back to the injury. Last Tuesday night, 7:40 pm, Aidan and Davis have PJs on about the go brush teeth, Mommy just caught Halle and is about to put her PJs on, Daddy's not home(basketball game)!

Davis decides to play football, takes a run across the family room trips on some toy and...wham! Hits his head on the corner of a wall (not sure if he hit the trim or the wall) and screams! I look over and see blood poring down the side of his head. Mommy drops Halle on the ground, grabs the nearest soaking up object, and grabs his head (I didn't look at it yet, just want to stop the bleeding). Blood slows down enough to reveal a nice gash in the side of his head. Not sure yet how deep (swelling, blood, hair, etc. in the way). It is now 7:49, Daddy should be on his way home so I called to let him know- he was just leaving the game. Decided to wait and have him look at it before we decided if we need to take him in. Davis finally stops crying at 8:00. Gave him some tylenol. Halle is really upset because she is tired and Mommy is holding Davis instead of her! Daddy gets home at 8:15. We determine it is not that deep and he will be fine! Whewww! Luckily we had some Liquid Bandage stuff, from when he cut his nose, because bandaids don't really work in hair.

Here is a nice picture.





































I know I was suppose to be finishing up Christmases and Davis's bday, will get there soon!

Christmas #2

On Christmas day we went up to Grandma's house and Camp.












We had a lot of fun playing in the snow.










































Halle had a Ladybug Christmas to add to her collection!
















It was a Transformer Christmas for the boys, complete with a toy, a robe, and PJ's.
















Thanks Grandma!

We also went to camp for more winter fun! On Ice! Davis and Halle ran around playing ice soccer and hockey with too big of sticks, most of the time.


































Aidan even ice skated for the first time, and was really good at it!

Christmas #1

This year we decided to stay home to have Christmas, then went to visit family, so the kids ended up with many Christmas's. So stay tuned as a post about each "Christmas" in the next few days.

Aidan was in his first Christmas Eve Program at his school. He didn't really sing much, but at least he smiled!



The kids waiting patiently to open their presents.












We all loved the new books we got from Auntie Gail. We have read them all!














































The boys were so happy to see Ninja Turtles when they opened their presents from Great Granny!












....and Legos
















... and girl toys! Finally Halle gets to play with dolls instead of cars (not that there is anything wrong with that).










































Mommy even made the boys Ninja Turtle shells! The boys wore them for 3 days straight! (Over clean clothes of course.)
















Thank you so much for the Gifts! We love you!

Snow Day!

All that snow we got turned into a perfect playing and packing snow a few days later when it got warmer.











The boys (including Daddy) had a blast digging, making forts, wrestling, and throwing snow balls at each other.





















Mommy even got in the fun and helped the boys make a snow man.









What a great start to our Christmas vacation, which you will see many more posts and pics about next.

Snow...Snow...Snow!

This winter has been a snowy one, and we have only just begun. I think we are on our 4th snow storm now, with the fifth coming tomorrow....

So, with Kate being pregnant and Christian having a not-so-good back, we decided to get a little snow blower. It isn't the greatest but for what we could afford it does make shoveling a lot easier.
















The boys did have some fun in it though.
















It was so deep Davis couldn't walk, he had to crawl and try to stay on top on it. Besides a few tears... he had fun!
















Aidan loves the adventure and nothing can stop him.
















Halle is definitely too little for this amount so she watched from her window and yelled to her brothers.
















Have Merry (White) Christmas Everyone!

Christmas Tree Hunting

On Sunday we went to cut our Christmas tree down.























It snowed on Saturday so we had a fresh blanket of beautiful white snow to trek around in, finding that (not so) perfect tree.






















The added snow of course added to the frustrations of trying to get Davis and Halle through the snow.






















We had many melt downs, fall downs, throw downs, etc.























Guess next year we will have to get a sled! But after a few maybes and almosts, we found our tree!






















Aidan even helped Daddy cut it down!






















Watch our tree fall!




It is good we have strong boys to help Daddy carry it to the car!

















We even got back home with enough time to have hot chocolate, decorate the tree, eat pizza, watch a Christmas movie, eat popcorn, and have shakes!

Packer Game

Christian has a friend he knew in college that works in the media department for the Carolina Panthers, so when they were coming to play in Green Bay, we made sure to see him. We visited him in Appleton on Saturday night and he gave us these media passes to get in to the stadium. Thanks Steven! We did not have tickets to the game, but were able to walk down to the field level and Christian even went out on the field. The kids were not allowed on the field but we got really close and saw lots of Packers. Here are some pics from the game. We did go up and sit an watch the first quarter from some unoccupied seats, but that is all the kids could take.















We are standing at the end of the tunnel the Packers run out onto the field from.














We also got Packer bandanas.



















We were actually sitting were it reserved for handicap people, but no one was there and the next stadium attendant let us sit there. He even gave us cookies! We could have stayed there the whole game but it was cold and the kids were tired.



















You can see the pass we got on Halle's jacket.















You can see more pictures if you visit Kate's facebook page.