Thanksgiving

Wednesday night (the night before Thanksgiving), Mike had his 15 year class reunion.  We were on the fence about whether or not to go, but decided to go when we found out that Paige was going to come up for it.  A few hours before the reunion, Mike was outside trying to take care of a skunk that he accidently trapped.  Well, the skunk must have sprayed and Mike was down wind and got some second hand spray from the skunk.  Don't really blame the skunk.  He took two showers and thankfully, didn't stink for his reunion.  Although that would have made it funny :)  After the reunion, we attempted to go out to a local  bar/restaurant, but after taking one step inside the place, we decided it wasn't our scene.  It was jam packed and the "kids" were almost young enough to be our own kids.  Craziness.  So I drove our old selves home so we could go to bed.

We had a great Thanksgiving.  Delicious food and a nice time with our families.

Mr. Owen, sitting at the head of the table, waiting for his feast.

Beth and Eric were home :)   Holidays are much more fun with kids! I didn't take many pictures because I was too busy eating. 

My mom and I decided to join the midnight shopping nuts on Black Friday.  However, we only woke up at 3:30am instead of midnight.  We went to Target and Kohl's and I'm almost finished with my Christmas shopping.

This morning we had our new tree put in.  Mike wanted a mature tree so it's almost as tall as our house which made it very tricky.  The boys loved watching the bulldozer digging the big hole.  I miss our old tree, but I can't wait to see how pretty this tree looks in the spring and fall!

Right before nap time Mike and I decided to get the Christmas decorations out of the attic.  Owen and Adam were playing in the basement.  I had just moved the train table down to the basement to make room for our tree.  All of a sudden Owen runs upstairs and tells us that Adam fell off the train table.  We rushed downstairs and sure enough he had fallen and I could tell by his cry that it was not good.  Usually it doesn't take long for him to stop crying when he falls, but he just kept crying.  He was also holding his foot.  When we tried to put him down to walk he couldn't put any weight on his foot.  Thankfully we have family close by.  Uncle Boo, my mom, and sister came over to help with Owen while we took Adam to the ER.  He was so exhausted from crying so much that he fell asleep on me while I held him in a wheelchair.  After getting X-rays it was determined that he broke his tibia (shin bone).

It was a clean break, thank goodness.  They put a soft cast on it and hopefully we'll be able to get in with the pediatric orthopedic doctor on Monday.  I'm not sure if he will get a hard cast or not.

Poor guy.  He wanted to be held the entire night and he mostly wanted me to hold him.  I have a feeling we'll be holding him a lot in the next few days.  I tried to get him to crawl, but he wouldn't.  I think once it's not so painful he will crawl around.  The next few weeks will be tough, but it could have been worse.

Adam was showing us what hurt.

Owen gave a reinactment and said that Adam climbed onto the sofa and then jumped from the sofa onto the train table and then jumped off the train table.  A couple months ago we did away with our baby gates (except for the one at the top of the step).  Adam pretty much has free range of the house and can play anywhere.  I guess we'll have to be more careful.  I'm not used to this because Owen rarely climbed on anything and if he did, he was too scared to jump off it.

Can you see the crack?

I have a feeling this won't be Adam's last visit to the ER for a broken bone.  The boy has no fear and because of that, I'm going to have gray hair by the time I turn 35.