We had Will’s sister and her kids over to our house recently (I’m so glad our county is opening up in the “early aftermath” of COVID!). Auntie has a tradition of taking a selfie with some of the kids (at least Bumblebee, though Dragonfly got in on the fun this time) every time she’s here; here’s the one from this week.
Blessings,
Grasshopper is growing up! He’s started taking over vacuuming duties, which is quite helpful. I still run it once a week or so, but he does the rest of the days (not every day, but we do like to vacuum 2-3 times a week).
Blessings,
I sent Dragonfly in to lay down for a nap the other day, and when I checked on him a short while later, I saw this:
Using a box from one of Small Fry’s birthday gifts, he’d made himself a for in which to sleep!
Blessings,
Dragonfly drew this picture recently, and then proceeded to tell me all about how it was “Little Boy” (his name for himself as he can’t quite say his own name yet – which is a much easier word than “little boy,” but . . . kids). It’s so cute that I wanted to share it.
Blessings,
Dragonfly has taken to wearing Small Fry’s bike helmet around the house while playing on his riding toy. It’s a bit big, but fun… BB8! Don’t worry, he has one his own size for riding his tricycle outside.
Blessings,
In our temporary housing house, there’s a gas fireplace. This isn’t something we have a lot of experience with (our old house had a wood fireplace, but we moved out of there almost a year ago). Because it’s been so long since Dragonfly has really been around fire, he was a bit careless and accidentally touched the glass in front of the fire. I was right there, but you know kids – they go from fine to injured before you have a chance to even move and save them. I picked him up and got his hand under cold water immediately, and we kept ice on it for a long time after that, and it looked like it was going to be okay. There was no redness or anything. Fast forward two days, and it was very red. One more day after that, and it had blistered up (nearly his entire pinky finger was affected) and was full of liquid. At this point, I took him right to the urgent care clinic (because it was a Sunday). While we were there waiting for the doctor, the blister popped and left a puddle on the floor. The doctor came in shortly thereafter and cut away the dead skin and put a burn dressing on his little hand. Now it’s been a few more days, and while I think he’ll have quite the scar when he’s done healing, he is in fact healing. And we (Dragonfly as well as the rest of us) are being much more careful around that hearth!
This is about midway through the healing process – after the redness showed up but before the blister did. It got quite a bit worse for a couple of days, but is now much better (though still healing).
Blessings,
Dragonfly loves clothespins. One night a few weeks ago, he found several of them and made it clear that he wanted me to clip them to his fingers. So I did one, then two… he kept saying, “More” until all ten of his fingers were clipped!
Blessings,
We took the boys to one of the local malls on New Year’s Eve, just to get out of the house for a little while. The big kids had some Christmas money (neither ended up getting anything that day), and the little kids just like to be in exciting places.
We didn’t end up spending a lot of money that day (those are the best trips to the mall, yes?), but we did get the little kids each a ride on the indoor Ferris wheel. There were only three kids riding at that time (my two boys plus one little girl), so the boys had to be split up into separate carriages. I was a little nervous letting Dragonfly ride essentially all by himself, but he did great. He was super excited about being up there, and he behaved perfectly. I needn’t have been worried.
Blessings,
We took the boys to see a fountain near where we live recently. Dragonfly seemed to especially enjoy it 🙂
Have a great weekend!
Blessings,
Baby Dragonfly (he’s 19 months old now) and me.