The other day the Lord supplied some tickets to "Fantasy on Ice," sort of like a circus, for the kids. We decided to wait till Family day, which was today, to take them. I wasn't sure if Kenji would be interested in going but when I asked him about it he said he did want to go. So with that settled I got him ready for his first time to a circus, or something close to it.
When we got in the car he was all excited most likely due to the kids themselves being all excited as seeing that it was Kenji's first time to a circus he didn't really know all that awaited him. Or maybe he was simply over-joyed to be getting out of the house. In any case he was a happy little man!
When we got to the circus there was an enormous line and at one point it looked as if we wouldn't make it, due to there not being enough space anymore, but the Lord did a miracle and we barely made it in. Five more people got to go in after us before they stopped accepting people due to the circus being full. It really was a miracle that we got in as our free tickets were only good till today and that showing was the last one for the day.
Because of the circus being so full we weren't all able to sit together. But at least we got seats. I don't know how many people were under that circus tarp but boy, oh, boy it was sooo hot. Poor Kenji had sweat dripping down his face. So I went ahead and took of his shirt half way through the show. That's when it finally dawned on me to do so. :D
For the most part I think the show caught his interest, of course there was some things that didn't, but all in all I think he enjoyed it. Although I'm sure if it had been a real circus, like with animals, he would have enjoyed it more. But it was one more thing to add to his list of first-timers and he seemed pretty pleased with the whole outing in general.
(The reason some of the pics aren't so centered, mainly the ones of Kenji alone, is because it was pretty hard to hold/balance him in one hand while trying to take a pic of him with the other. I simply had to take a shot and hope that I at least got his face. :D Anyways, just thought I'd clear that up).
(Grr...this random line-up of the pics is really bothering me. I think I might get the Pro account and settle this problem once and for all. At least then I will be able to actually view the photos in order, as they occurred).
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Round two ...
It's so sad, my little man fell on his lip, again. :( His first fall, about 10 days ago, has scarcely healed up and BANG another fall. I guess that's what happens when they hit the stage of not only exploring everything but also defiant to any advice or warning you may give them. Oh well, it will soon pass. :D
This morning during devotions grandma was watching Kenji and Angel and seeing as there were 10 minutes left before devotions were over she decided to lie some mattresses on the floor and let them do somersaults for a bit. Now, all was going well with the acrobats until Kenji decided to get off the mattresses and try something different... but to his dismay it didn't quite work out and he fell smack on his face.
Once he calmed down I cleaned up his bloody face and literally covered his face with honey. Then I asked Kenji what he was trying to do and what made him do that silly stunt? And in his cute and peculiar way he told me what he had tried to jump and spin at the same time. Putting 1+1 together I remembered that yesterday at the park we had seen some guys practicing some tricks on their skateboards.
Kenji got one of the guys to lend him his skateboard and this guy was trying to teach Kenji how to ride on the skateboard. It was so cute to see him try and push himself off with his little foot and while also attempting to stand/balance himself on the skateboard, of course with mommy holding one of his hands. He was flipped and didn't want to return the skateboard. :)
I then realized that he was trying to copy the skateboarders only to find out, the hard way, that he's not quite ready to try skateboarding tricks, yet! :D Grandma jokingly said that for his birthday we should just get him am American football helmet and thus prevent any more head/face injuries. Ha! Not a bad idea. ;) lol
So once again he has big swollen lips although thank the Lord this time the fall was not as bad in the sense that he didn't bust his lip open just a couple of blood blisters. I guess this time it was his nose that got the brunt of the fall. :(
He was so miserable due to his ouchy so in order to distract him from it I put on his favorite school program -Starfall. He loves school and he loves computers! It's a package deal! He goes through stages as to what letter of the alphabet or booklet he likes to do. I'm not kidding he will only want to watch that particular letter or booklet over and over for about a week! Grrr! Right now he's into the "Silly Turkey" booklet. He's gotten down the country tune and he has the cutest little clap/dance for it. I should video him doing it some time, heh!
Anyways, back to our story. After nap time I told him to get his sandals on, he refused to do so and so I let him go barefoot but I warned him that if he did he ran the chance of getting ouchies on his feet or worse yet falling down due to not having shoes on. Still he did not heed my advice and went his merry way.
A little while later he went to the back patio, barefoot, and started chasing the cat. I once again made mention of putting his sandals on to protect his little feet especially outside where there are little bitty rocks that could poke him, or ants that could sting him, or taking a fall due to not having shoes on.
My stubborn little Virgo was determined to do it his own way and went outside despite my heeding to not do so. He had been outside for less than 5 minutes when I heard him cry, I ran out outside and picked him up off the floor. This time though I wasn't too sympathetic of his fall as I had warned him many times to not go outside barefoot.
Apparently he was chasing the cat an tripped over our unleveled cement-brick floor. He got a fairly big scrape and bruise right above his right eyebrow. I washed his scrape off, disinfected it with some hydrogen peroxide (he didn't take to kindly to that) and placed honey on it to help the swelling and bruising.
But most importantly I gave him a good talk about the importance of obeying mommy even when he doesn't fully understand why I'm telling him to do such and such. Thank the Lord he was a lot more obedient after that and the swelling on his lips and nose went down completely and his bonks and bruises weren't so bad at the end of the day. I tell you honey does wonders for bonks and falls!
This morning during devotions grandma was watching Kenji and Angel and seeing as there were 10 minutes left before devotions were over she decided to lie some mattresses on the floor and let them do somersaults for a bit. Now, all was going well with the acrobats until Kenji decided to get off the mattresses and try something different... but to his dismay it didn't quite work out and he fell smack on his face.
Once he calmed down I cleaned up his bloody face and literally covered his face with honey. Then I asked Kenji what he was trying to do and what made him do that silly stunt? And in his cute and peculiar way he told me what he had tried to jump and spin at the same time. Putting 1+1 together I remembered that yesterday at the park we had seen some guys practicing some tricks on their skateboards.
Kenji got one of the guys to lend him his skateboard and this guy was trying to teach Kenji how to ride on the skateboard. It was so cute to see him try and push himself off with his little foot and while also attempting to stand/balance himself on the skateboard, of course with mommy holding one of his hands. He was flipped and didn't want to return the skateboard. :)
I then realized that he was trying to copy the skateboarders only to find out, the hard way, that he's not quite ready to try skateboarding tricks, yet! :D Grandma jokingly said that for his birthday we should just get him am American football helmet and thus prevent any more head/face injuries. Ha! Not a bad idea. ;) lol
So once again he has big swollen lips although thank the Lord this time the fall was not as bad in the sense that he didn't bust his lip open just a couple of blood blisters. I guess this time it was his nose that got the brunt of the fall. :(
He was so miserable due to his ouchy so in order to distract him from it I put on his favorite school program -Starfall. He loves school and he loves computers! It's a package deal! He goes through stages as to what letter of the alphabet or booklet he likes to do. I'm not kidding he will only want to watch that particular letter or booklet over and over for about a week! Grrr! Right now he's into the "Silly Turkey" booklet. He's gotten down the country tune and he has the cutest little clap/dance for it. I should video him doing it some time, heh!
Anyways, back to our story. After nap time I told him to get his sandals on, he refused to do so and so I let him go barefoot but I warned him that if he did he ran the chance of getting ouchies on his feet or worse yet falling down due to not having shoes on. Still he did not heed my advice and went his merry way.
A little while later he went to the back patio, barefoot, and started chasing the cat. I once again made mention of putting his sandals on to protect his little feet especially outside where there are little bitty rocks that could poke him, or ants that could sting him, or taking a fall due to not having shoes on.
My stubborn little Virgo was determined to do it his own way and went outside despite my heeding to not do so. He had been outside for less than 5 minutes when I heard him cry, I ran out outside and picked him up off the floor. This time though I wasn't too sympathetic of his fall as I had warned him many times to not go outside barefoot.
Apparently he was chasing the cat an tripped over our unleveled cement-brick floor. He got a fairly big scrape and bruise right above his right eyebrow. I washed his scrape off, disinfected it with some hydrogen peroxide (he didn't take to kindly to that) and placed honey on it to help the swelling and bruising.
But most importantly I gave him a good talk about the importance of obeying mommy even when he doesn't fully understand why I'm telling him to do such and such. Thank the Lord he was a lot more obedient after that and the swelling on his lips and nose went down completely and his bonks and bruises weren't so bad at the end of the day. I tell you honey does wonders for bonks and falls!
Sunday, June 1, 2008
A little accident
Kenji had a little accident today, well not so little, but in comparison to what it could have been it is by far a very minor thing. So I'm most certainly thankful that it wasn't worse. The Lord and his Angels truly did protect him. TYJ!
I had just finished giving him Word time and wanted to keep him still for a bit while I got his school things together for the morning. So I brought him some puzzles and other fun creative toys to entertain him with for about 5 minutes. He sat down on the rug and throughly immersed himself into the puzzle (he really likes puzzles so I got him some 24 piece ones that are easy for little ones to do).
I cleared up the Word time props, books, etc., we had used and brought some school things into the room he was in. Then I turned around and went for some paper and markers for our pre-writing exercises, but I didn't even make it down the hall to my room when I heard him cry.
Let me back track a bit, while I was clearing up the Word time items I took note of the fan being placed in such a way that the cord was stretched out and I thought to myself how someone could trip over it easily. Obviously the Lord was giving me a check to do something about it, but I brushed it off and told myself I would move the fan as soon as I brought all the school things to the room.
I guess I figured Kenji was entertained with his puzzle so he wouldn't get up for another 3-5 minutes, giving me enough time to finish up and then move the fan. But the Lord wasn't pleased with my procrastination and had to show me the importance of instant obedience, even in the little things, the hard way - through my baby having an accident.
Yep, Kenji tripped over that very cord I got a check about to move, but didn't. And because he had a puzzle piece in his hand he must of not taken note to the cord in his way, so the trip caught him off guard and he fell straight on his face/mouth. You can imagine how I felt when I noticed the cause of his fall. But there was no time to think about that now, Kenji's face and neck was covered in blood!
I took him to the bathroom and tried washing/wiping the blood off, but his nose was bleeding so much and he wouldn't let me plug it to keep it from bleeding even more as I guess it was pretty sore from the fall. His mouth was bleeding a lot too and both his lips were swollen, really, really swollen, in less than a minute.
Because of the swelling he wouldn't let me open his mouth to check if he had gotten a cut inside his mouth, or on his tounge or gums, but it was obvious that something big happened to his outer bottom lip. It looked like he had gotten it sliced as it was bleeding a lot, but I wasn't too sure as he wouldn't let me inspect it.
By this time grandma, Jo, and Ez came to see what had happened and one of them fetched some ice and honey. Grandma helped me clean his face up so that we could see just how bad the cut on his lip was. I thought that we were for sure going to have to take him in for some stitches on his lip, as it looked like it had gotten a bad cut/slice and for a while it looked like his 2 front teeth had gotten loose or something as he had these lines caked in blood right above the teeth, but such was not the case, TTL!
Once we cleaned him up and put honey on his nose and lips, and gave the honey time to do its thing, it looked as if his lip would heal up without stitches as it didn't appear to have sliced open. I don't know how to explain it, but it was more like the skin got bashed and bruised and in some parts he got little cuts where some of the inner lip was oozing out, making it look worse than what it was.
Thank the Lord that by that afternoon his swelling had diminished incredibly and he was able to eat a little bit of food. His lip although bruised and cut in some places was looking better and better by the hour and by nightfall he was doing so much better! I'm so grateful and thankful to the Lord for protecting Kenji from a worse accident.
I learned a very important lesson that morning one that we all at times get familiar with - that of asking the Lord everything and taking heed to his little nudges/checks in the spirit. But He is merciful and never gives us more than we can bear. He knows I wouldn't have been able to bear a more serious thing happening to Kenji due to my lack of obedience to His check. The Lord indeed is good! TYJ!
Because of the nature of the accident and all that followed it slipped my mind to capture Kenji in his first accident in relation to a fall (he had his first accident the beginning of this year). But the next day I was able to capture one sort-of-good pic of his ouchy. He wouldn't stay still long enough to capture his perfect little poses showing off his ouchy. And for some reason most of the pics came out to bright, maybe Noelle didn't have it in the right setting,so some of the pics look kind of funky but I'm trying to see if I can fix them before I upload them here so be patient. :)
In other happier news :D a couple of days ago I took out Kenji's little swimming pool and let him and Angel play in it for about 3 hours straight. They were so happy! It's mighty hot over here these days - 95 or more degrees at times and that's in the evening when it has supposedly cooled off! Yuck! That's not even funny!
The pictures,... finally! They aren't all that great, but at least you get to see the ouchy he got. :( Thank the Lord it's doing better now.
I had just finished giving him Word time and wanted to keep him still for a bit while I got his school things together for the morning. So I brought him some puzzles and other fun creative toys to entertain him with for about 5 minutes. He sat down on the rug and throughly immersed himself into the puzzle (he really likes puzzles so I got him some 24 piece ones that are easy for little ones to do).
I cleared up the Word time props, books, etc., we had used and brought some school things into the room he was in. Then I turned around and went for some paper and markers for our pre-writing exercises, but I didn't even make it down the hall to my room when I heard him cry.
Let me back track a bit, while I was clearing up the Word time items I took note of the fan being placed in such a way that the cord was stretched out and I thought to myself how someone could trip over it easily. Obviously the Lord was giving me a check to do something about it, but I brushed it off and told myself I would move the fan as soon as I brought all the school things to the room.
I guess I figured Kenji was entertained with his puzzle so he wouldn't get up for another 3-5 minutes, giving me enough time to finish up and then move the fan. But the Lord wasn't pleased with my procrastination and had to show me the importance of instant obedience, even in the little things, the hard way - through my baby having an accident.
Yep, Kenji tripped over that very cord I got a check about to move, but didn't. And because he had a puzzle piece in his hand he must of not taken note to the cord in his way, so the trip caught him off guard and he fell straight on his face/mouth. You can imagine how I felt when I noticed the cause of his fall. But there was no time to think about that now, Kenji's face and neck was covered in blood!
I took him to the bathroom and tried washing/wiping the blood off, but his nose was bleeding so much and he wouldn't let me plug it to keep it from bleeding even more as I guess it was pretty sore from the fall. His mouth was bleeding a lot too and both his lips were swollen, really, really swollen, in less than a minute.
Because of the swelling he wouldn't let me open his mouth to check if he had gotten a cut inside his mouth, or on his tounge or gums, but it was obvious that something big happened to his outer bottom lip. It looked like he had gotten it sliced as it was bleeding a lot, but I wasn't too sure as he wouldn't let me inspect it.
By this time grandma, Jo, and Ez came to see what had happened and one of them fetched some ice and honey. Grandma helped me clean his face up so that we could see just how bad the cut on his lip was. I thought that we were for sure going to have to take him in for some stitches on his lip, as it looked like it had gotten a bad cut/slice and for a while it looked like his 2 front teeth had gotten loose or something as he had these lines caked in blood right above the teeth, but such was not the case, TTL!
Once we cleaned him up and put honey on his nose and lips, and gave the honey time to do its thing, it looked as if his lip would heal up without stitches as it didn't appear to have sliced open. I don't know how to explain it, but it was more like the skin got bashed and bruised and in some parts he got little cuts where some of the inner lip was oozing out, making it look worse than what it was.
Thank the Lord that by that afternoon his swelling had diminished incredibly and he was able to eat a little bit of food. His lip although bruised and cut in some places was looking better and better by the hour and by nightfall he was doing so much better! I'm so grateful and thankful to the Lord for protecting Kenji from a worse accident.
I learned a very important lesson that morning one that we all at times get familiar with - that of asking the Lord everything and taking heed to his little nudges/checks in the spirit. But He is merciful and never gives us more than we can bear. He knows I wouldn't have been able to bear a more serious thing happening to Kenji due to my lack of obedience to His check. The Lord indeed is good! TYJ!
Because of the nature of the accident and all that followed it slipped my mind to capture Kenji in his first accident in relation to a fall (he had his first accident the beginning of this year). But the next day I was able to capture one sort-of-good pic of his ouchy. He wouldn't stay still long enough to capture his perfect little poses showing off his ouchy. And for some reason most of the pics came out to bright, maybe Noelle didn't have it in the right setting,so some of the pics look kind of funky but I'm trying to see if I can fix them before I upload them here so be patient. :)
In other happier news :D a couple of days ago I took out Kenji's little swimming pool and let him and Angel play in it for about 3 hours straight. They were so happy! It's mighty hot over here these days - 95 or more degrees at times and that's in the evening when it has supposedly cooled off! Yuck! That's not even funny!
The pictures,... finally! They aren't all that great, but at least you get to see the ouchy he got. :( Thank the Lord it's doing better now.
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