October 6, 2009

• The first accident report said, "Chance just lost his balance and fell from the small bench.  He bit his lower lip.  We cleaned up the area, put on some ice and gave TLC.  His lower lip is swollen."

  Poor kid.  It was picture day.  The accident happened right before his class took their photos.  Looks like we're getting a photo of a kid with a fat lip.

  The second accident report said, "Today we went on a nature walk to collect some colored leaves when suddenly we were attacked by bees....."

  I kind of like the drama of the second one.

  But the poor kid.  Same day!  From what we've heard, the kids were stomping on the leaves making them crunch when someone unknowingly stomped on a yellow jacket's nest under the leaves.  The teachers tried to get the kids to run (9 kids, 2 teachers) but of course the bees chased them and to make things worse, Chance wouldn't run, just stood flapping his arms and stomping in place.  He was stung 9 times.  He was wearing  a long sleeved shirt and long pants but they stung right through the shirt.  They changed his shirt at school because the one he was wearing was covered in little round blood stains.  He was a pretty sad little guy last night.  Kept saying, "The bugs bit me" and couldn't get himself comfortable.  He ended up sleeping in our bed because he was just crying every 10 minutes and seemed to be a bit freaked out.

  Luckily, this morning he seemed to have been able to shake it off.  Only one sting on his hand seems to be swollen and to hurt him.  When I picked him up from school he was running around the playground and his teachers said he'd been fine all day.  They seemed a bit shaken up as at least 5 of the kids had been stung and all the kids were upset.  Chance was still talking about it tonight but now he says, "I got stinged.  Bruno got stinged.  The bugs stinged us.  I don't like snakes."

  But he is sleeping now.  In his own bed.

  In good news:  He is doing most excellent at potty training!  He is pooping and peeing in the potty.  No accidents two days in a row!  He is so proud of himself.

  And....  Happy Mid-Autumn Moon Festival!

  

  We made two batches of mooncakes this year.  The one above is nice eh?  Sadly, it did not come out of the oven looking the same way it did going in:

   

  

  What the heck!  I think it's time to give up on the Pillsbury pie dough and make my own. 

   

  

  Then again....  here's my first attempt at making Blintzes.  I figured I'd better keep the Polish culture alive.  They did taste pretty good.  Shaeleigh even asked me to make them again.  They looked a little better the second time around but not much.

   

  

  Chance helping with the dishes.  Check out the "big boy underwear."

   

  

  Ah, October is here.  I'm sure we'll have more pumpkin patch photos to come but we went to Meadow's Farm over the weekend to kick things off.

   

  

  Chance is good for Shaels.  She would not have gotten near this tube if he didn't dive in head first.  They loved it.

   

  

  And last weekend was Culpeper Farm open house weekend.  We took an adventure to our friend Gail's Alpaca Farm:  http://www.platinumalpacas.com/

  

  Chance kept calling them, "cows."

   

  

  This is Penny the baby.  She was only a week old.  So cute.

  We had a good time but I have to say, the kids were a bit crabby most of the day.  I had to pull over twice to yell at them to calmly suggest they behave differently

   

  

  After seeing the Alpacas we decided to go to the Kelly Ford Equestrian Center.  The perfect place for Chance - endless fields for running.  I was actually going to go down to the Welcome Center to see the model train exhibit but Shaeleigh overheard someone mention they had face painting at Kelly Ford and it was closer to being on the way home so off we went.

   

   

  They also had horse rides which Shaeleigh loved.  Chance was excited until he got up on the horse.  Then he had a very quick change of heart and so "we" decided that maybe we'd wait until next year.

   

  

  As an added bonus, there was a wedding taking place that afternoon at the Inn connected to the farm.  We took a hayride down to the barn where they were getting this very strong looking horse ready to pull the carriage.  They were braiding the mane and sticking roses in it (couldn't have planned a better place to take Shaeleigh).  The carriage was all decorated with flowers.  Shaeleigh started to make her wedding plans.  She told me she was going to marry Chance and I bit my tongue as I really wanted to say, "but you spent all day bickering with him and telling him that you didn't like him, why would you want to marry him?" 

  For the record, Chance retaliated by singing, "Old MacDonald had a Farm" for close to an hour in the car.  It wouldn't have been so bad except that he is like a broken record, "And on that farm he had a dog, E-I-E-I-OOOOOO... and on that farm he had a dog, E-I-E-I-OOOOOO... and on that farm he had a dog, E-I-E-I-OOOOO... "  Yes, so when the kids weren't bickering I had an hour of Old MacDonald's one dog farm.

  Oh, and if you say, "Hey Chance, how about another song?"  He says, "Okay...  uh... how about.... how about... how about...  Old MacDonald?" 

   

  

  But just the same, we did have fun.

   

  

  E_I_E_I_OOOOOOOOOOOOO

   

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