Stitches and Valentines Day

Our week has been a little crazy, starting off with me getting a phone call from school saying Brinley had been cut and I needed to take her to get looked at by a doctor.  I was in the process of painting Clayton's room, so I left everything out and headed to school covered head to toe in paint! When I got there, Brinley was crying and her finger was bandaged.  The nurse told me she had trouble getting her to stop bleeding and she would probably need stitches.  On the way to urgent care, Brinley told me a  little girl in her class took her scissors and as she was reaching to get them back, the girl closed the scissors and cut her thumb. Once we were at urgent care, they took off the blood soaked bandage (we now know our little girl is a bleeder!) and I saw the cut for the first time......

YIKES!!! I could not believe how bad it was! Everyone was asking "What kind of scissors are they using in Kindergarten?" My little trooper did great and watched more than I did when they put the 3 stitches in! The urgent care gave her a bear to hold on during the process and let her take it home (she has been sleeping with it every night!)

She has been doing fine ever since! She is annoyed that she cannot play in PE until the stitches come out ("But mom...we are playing red light, green light, I don't use my hands!!")


ON TO VALENTINES DAY.......
I woke up early Valentines Day and made my love bugs homemade, heart shaped donuts!

We then got dressed in our best Valentine attire and posed for some pictures before heading to school

I am the room mom for Brinley's class and we had a ice cream sundae Valentine party for the kids. They were able to pick all their trimmings. My non sweet eater picked chocolate ice cream, m&m's and chocolate syrup! Needless to say this picture says it all!!!

After eating the ice cream, the kids tore into their valentines from all their classmates

After school, the kids came home to see their Valentine goodies that mommy and daddy got them.  The biggest hit were the monkeys that sing and dance to MC Hammer's "Can't touch this"

We ended our Valentine Day with dinner and softball practice, which was a great way to have both kids run all the sugar out of the their systems!!!