Haley's head injury

Wednesday night Emily slept nine hours, then woke up and I fed her, and then went back to sleep until I had to wake her up to leave for Bible study.  I also had to wake Haley up to go, those girls were sleepy.  I put Haley on the potty as soon as she was up but after sitting on there for about ten minutes, she still hadn't gone and it was time to go.  

Bible study was at the Masons' house today and it went really well.  We covered the chapter about time from the book One Thousand Gifts and it basically made all of us want to not hurry through motherhood. I had a pull-up on Haley while we were there, I didn't want her having accidents all over the Mason's house.  Towards the end of our time there all of the kids were playing outside on the Mason's playground.  Bonnie went out to check on them and just as she got there she watched Haley slip off the playground ladder (she was trying to climb up while holding something in her hand) and hit her head on one of the rungs on her way down.  She was only two steps up so she didn't fall far at all. Bonnie scooped her up and brought her inside.

I saw Bonnie coming in holding Haley and I thought she must have fallen over or something but when I went over to take her I saw that her whole forehead was covered with blood and it was dripping down her face.  I grabbed her and took her to the sink and Meg helped me wash her face and the place where she got cut.  The cut was super small and didn't look bad at all so Meg said that it must have just hit real near a vein or something.  David mentioned later that blood always looks a hundred times worse when it's on the face, I totally agree.  After washing her off and applying some pressure the bleeding stopped fairly quickly.  Haley did not cry long and she wasn't crying super hard either.  She stopped once we located her paci and gave it to her.  Actually, after a couple minutes of us applying pressure and looking at her cut, she started asking to go outside again.  We brought the other kids inside and turned on a movie instead.

Emily fell asleep on the way back from Bible study and Haley went for a nap after lunch.  Once they woke up it was time for full fledge potty training again.  It was kind of nice having the morning off but it made me more determined to have a successful afternoon.  I gave her a bunch of juice and had her go potty every fifteen minutes or so.  She has made some progress in that when I have her go, she either gets mad and tells me she doesn't have to go, or she actually goes.  She did not ever tell me today when she had to go but there were a couple times where she would pause and look at me with a funny face and then I put her on and she went.  By taking her throughout the rest of the day like that, she ended up with an accident-free day!  

Actually, now that I think about it, she did have one accident.  David was working outside on the septic system which, as it turns out, we seem to be in deep boo boo about, and we went outside to see how it was going.  While we were watching him dig, she peed in the grass.  I have been having her wear her panties so she can feel what it's like to have an accident, she had been insisting on going naked before. The only time I had Haley sit on the potty for a long period of time was while I was making dinner.  She hadn't booed yet and I was a little paranoid about her doing that secretly while I was in the kitchen.  She watched an Elmo episode until dinner was ready.  She actually wanted to keep watching Elmo instead of have dinner with us.  We put Emily on the table in her bumbo during dinner and Haley just couldn't resist her.  She kept asking to 'kiss Emmy,' it was so cute.  

After dinner we ran to Kroger to get some gas for the van.  We get 10 cents off per gallon and we hda to use it before the end of the month and the van was empty anyways so that's why we went to Kroger specifically.  If anyone's comparing, we got it for 2.99 a gallon.  After Kroger we went to Lowe's to pick up some shelving racks that David is going to put up in the spare bedroom closet.  On our way there both of the girls fell asleep!  I ended up staying in the car while David ran in to get the stuff.  When we got home we ended up putting Haley to bed, she went down around 7:30 or so, pretty early.  Emily stayed up until eight and then she also went to bed.

Haleyism:

While I was making dinner Haley kept getting off the potty and the screen of the Ipad, she was kissing Elmo.  She is kind of weird.  Also, while we were cleaning up her cut today at the Masons, she kept asking for Lucy.  Amanda was holding her so she brought her over so Haley could see her, I guess she needed some friend support.

Emilyism:

Emily likes to spit.  Also she likes to scratch her sheets.  Something about that sound, a little baby scratching at her crib mattress sheet, gets my funny bone.

Haley sitting nicely on the potty and eating one of her M&Ms. She had just gone pee pee but we were still waiting for the big boo.  That boo never showed up today by the way.  Tomorrow may be a little messy!