This and That

So, I have been slacking once again in the post department.  I'm gonna blame this one on the weather.  Either it's really nice and we are outside all day, or it's nasty and I am trying to convince Ike not to scream about going outside.  Fun stuff  :)

Anyway, I have some random stuff to update about, and here goes.

The week before Easter we took the boys to Marion to go hang out at the mall play area.  I dropped Josh and the kids off to go grocery shopping by myself.  As I was walking into the store, I got a call from Josh and it was a lady on the phone saying I needed to get back to the mall because Ike had hit his head and was bleeding.  Eeek, was that ever a difficult phone call to receive!!  I was totally that person cutting people off while driving so I could get back there fast.  

Ike's forehead had collided with a metal bench right in the middle of the mall, so Josh was dealing with quite the bloody mess, while also calming Ike down and making sure Dave stayed put.  Thankfully, a super nice lady (also a nurse) stopped and helped him!  By the time I got back, the bleeding had stopped, so Ike didn't have to get any stitches.  But it sure was a gash.

After we got home.

Grandma fixed him up with some steri strips and a bandaid.  Of course, he ripped those off immediately at bedtime.  After that, we upped our game with some nicer bandaids!  He is healing nicely now, and I don't think it will end up leaving much of a scar, so that's good.

Didn't affect his sunny disposition at all.

 One positive from this experience is that Ike now can say bandaid and boo boo.  Here's a video of him showing off that he knows where most of his facial features are.

Other Ike updates include his weird vocabulary.  Tonight at dinner he told me that something was spicy.  Not sure how he figured that one out!  And he insists that I sing him Katy Perry's "Roar" every night before bed.  I think I listen to too much pop radio  :)

The boys playing with chalk outside.

Dave is super into his Lego video games still and was talking about them to his friend Kyson, who lives a couple houses down from us.  He came over to play video games with Dave this week (since the weather was horrible!), and they ended up playing games for about 20 minutes and then played with toys the rest of the time. 

Glad to see playdoh is still more fun than gaming!

Posing with his transformers inspired lego robots.

Here's a video of Dave battling with his robots.  He mentions in the video that he is doing a "review" of his legos.  Josh and Dave watch this guy (Mitch Santona) review toys on youtube every night before bed, so Dave is constantly reviewing everything now.  I can't believe how old Dave looks lately.  And, he only has two weeks left of preschool this year...he's growing up too fast. 

Finally, yesterday we met Britt and Chad's family to celebrate Zac's first birthday.  I can't believe he's a year old already!  

 

Zac and Ike doing a little snacking before dinner.

Checking out his birthday cupcake.

Dave photobombed Zac's cake eating.

He ended up eating almost all of it!  They sure were tasty!











How's that for a random post?  Whew, it feels good to be caught up.  This weekend Josh is working, so we are hanging out at home.  But next weekend we are going to Evansville for Mother's Day and the golf scramble that Josh plays in with my mom and brother.  I am ready to get off campus for a bit!